#stress

I have always argued that change becomes stressful and overwhelming only when you've lost any sense of the constancy of your life. You need firm ground to stand on. From there, you can deal with that change. ↗

— Richard Nelson Bolles

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Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#anyone #away #conquest #hard #her

The key to winning is poise under stress. ↗

— Paul Brown

#poise #stress #under #winning

A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends. ↗

— Lord Byron

#anything #friend #friends #lovers #mistress

Why do I use the same actors in different movies? One of the things I really stress in casting is I need to find someone who is suitable for the role in the movie. That's always the main reason. ↗

— Stephen Chow

#casting #different #find #i #main

The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has. ↗

— Confucius

#ability #distressed #fact #his #limitations

Its not stress that kills us, it is our reaction to it. ↗

— Hans Selye

#our #reaction #stress #us

I like to be alone so I can write. But focus can hurt you. I don't want to be some stress casualty in early middle age. ↗

— James Ellroy

#alone #casualty #early #focus #hurt

Life is stressful. ↗

— Bethenny Frankel

#stressful

What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult. ↗