Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barbara Taylor Bradford

Elizabeth lay face-down on the massage table, and allowed Marco to relieve the stress of the business day with firm and knowing fingers. Success, she decided, was often a matter of knowing when to relax.

Bela Fleck

When I play my own music, or when I play new music, there's much more stress and intensity of thinking about how I'm going to make it work!

Bela Karolyi

In gymnastics, smaller will always be better in many ways. The stress in the head, that will be the same for all. But the stress on the body and the concussions it must endure, that will always be easier for the little ones.

bell hooks

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.

bell hooks

I think stress is anything going on in our lives that impinges on our capacity to have optimum well being.

Barry Sheene

Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out and meet the bloody thing.

Boris Johnson

I stress – I don't believe that economic equality is possible; indeed some measure of inequality is essential for the spirit of envy and keeping up with the Joneses that is, like greed, a valuable spur to economic activity.

Boris Yeltsin

I would like to stress here that a lasting peace in the Chechen republic and so-called peace talks with the bandits are not the same thing, and I would ask everyone to make no mistake about that

Bruce Forsyth

A round of golf is the ideal antidote to stress.

Bonnie Fuller

I recognize women are under a lot more stress today. The things you consider stress are also the blessings in your life.

Brain cells create ideas. Stress kills brain cells. Stress is not a good idea

Barney Frank

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

Denis Waitley

One of the best ways to properly evaluate and adapt to the many environmental stresses of life is to simply view them as normal. The adversity and failures in our lives, if adapted to and viewed as normal corrective feedback to use to get back on target, serve to develop in us an immunity against anxiety, depression, and the adverse responses to stress. Instead of tackling the most important priorities that would make us successful and effective in life, we prefer the path of least resistance and do things simply that will relieve our tension, such as shuffling papers and majoring in minors.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

If life and its rushed pace and many stresses have made it difficult for you to feel like rejoicing, then perhaps now is a good time to refocus on what matters most.

Edward Felten

Even if there were no illegal copying, the advent of digital distribution will put a lot of stress on the movie and music industry. When the distribution costs comes down, that puts more price pressure on the rest of the cost.

Alexandra Kotur

I think a closet full of things would actually stress me out.

Arthur Koestler

When a chess player looks at the board, he does not see a static mosaic, a 'still life', but a magnetic field of forces, charged with energy - as Faraday saw the stresses surrounding magnets and currents as curves in space; or as Van Gogh saw vortices in the skies of Provence.

Carl Sandburg

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.

Carl Sandburg

In the average newspaper there is not a complete suppression of stories that the sacred cows don't want printed. But rather what happens is that the stories get printed with stresses, colorations and emphasis that favor the sacred cows.

Bryant H. McGill

Stop your worrying, panicking and stressing. Breathe. Remember, you made it this far through difficulties that seemed impossible. Remember how many times you were saved at the very last minute -- this time is no different.

I feel pretty good. There's no pain, just more stress from traveling.

Stephen Jay Gould

Change is more often a rapid transition between two stable states than a continuous transformation at slow and steady rates. . . .Change occurs in large leaps following a slow accumulation of stress that a system resists until it reaches the breaking point. Heat water, and it eventually boils. Oppress the workers more and more and bring on the revolution.

Billy Graham

The Bible stresses that a marriage ideally should be a picture or a reflection of Christ's love for His people.

Oprah Winfrey

All stress comes from resisting what is.

Nicolas Ghesquiere

I'm always very stressed about making a new proposition every season. But in a way, it's a kind of addiction.

Hideo Kojima

My games are rather stressful games, where you have to play for a long time.

I talked to them (Sunday) and I talked to them (Saturday) and stressed to them that every inning is important. We are not able to coast.

He was only hospitalized because of stress. We have a stressful job.

Charles Bukowski

t was almost disappointing because it seemed when stress and madness were eliminated from my daily life there wasn't much left you could depend on.

Charles Bukowski

Things get bad for all of us, almost continually, and what we do under the constant stress reveals who/what we are.

Carnie Wilson

It's not just being overweight that's dangerous. Stress is dangerous.

Carnie Wilson

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.

Alan Garner

Hitting the gym to release stress is not nearly as effective as hitting the people that cause the stress to begin with.