Stress Quotes — Page 28

Author, Biologist

“In the day-to-day, farm work is stress relief for me. At the end of the day, I love having this other career - my anti-job - that keeps me in shape and gives me control over a vegetal domain.”

Jobs Careers Stress

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Elizabeth Gilbert

Author, Memoirist

“I wanted to experience both. I wanted worldly enjoyment and divine transcendence. I wanted what the Greeks called kalos kai agathos, the singular balance of the good and the beautiful. I'd been missing both during these last hard years, because both pleasure and devotion require a stress-free space in which to flourish and I'd been living in a giant trash compactor of nonstop anxiety. As for how to balance the urge for pleasure against the longing for devotion...well, surely there was a way to learn that trick.”

Years Beautiful Stress

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Barney Frank

Politician

“For most of my life, I have eaten to deal with stress.”

Stress Deals

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Emily Browning

Actress

“I usually hate going around and doing press. It sort of stresses me out.”

Hate Stress

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Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

Author

“to have a crisis, and act upon it, is one thing. To dwell in perpetual crisis is another.”

Stress Trouble Crisis

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Ellen DeGeneres

Comedian, Television Host

“I don't want to take a pill. Go to Africa, go follow some bushman around. He's being chased by a lion. That's stress. You're not going to find a pygmy on Paxil, I'll tell you that right now.”

Funny Humor Stress

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Edward Abbey

Author, Environmentalist

“Industrial tourism is a threat to the national parks. But the chief victims of the system are the motorized tourists. They are being robbed and robbing themselves. So long as they are unwilling to crawl out of their cars they will not discover the treasures of the national parks and will never escape the stress and turmoil of the urban-suburban complexes which they had hoped, presumably, to leave behind for a while.”

Long Car Stress

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Carl Sandburg

Poet, Biographer

“There is a formal poetry perfect only in form?the number of syllables, the designated and required stresses of accent, the rhymes if wantedthey come off with the skill of a solved crossword puzzle.”

Numbers Skills Stress

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Carl Sagan

Astronomer, Astrophysicist

“For years I've been stressing with regard to UFOs that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.”

Years Atheism Stress

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Barton Seaver

Chef

“Restaurants stress the protein. People read menu items left to right, with the protein first. I read descriptions right to left.”

People Firsts Stress

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Carnie Wilson

Singer

“I've had so much stress in the last year so it's really a struggle. I never hide, when I walk down the street, someone's going to take my picture, that's what I look like.”

Years Struggle Stress

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Bell Hooks

Author, Feminist, Social Activist

“Another response to racism has been the establishment of unlearning racism workshops, which are often led by white women. These workshops are important, yet they tend to focus primarily on cathartic individual psychological personal prejudice without stressing the need for corresponding change in political commitment and action. A woman who attends an unlearning racism workshop and learns to acknowledge that she is racist is no less a threat than one who does not. Acknowledgment of racism is significant when it leads to transformation.”

White Commitment Stress

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