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  • Men under stress are fools, and fool themselves.

    Stress   Men   Fool  
    Michael Crichton (2012). “The Andromeda Strain”, p.224, Vintage
  • Well, on the American side, every new administration has to cut its teeth in a crisis, because before a crisis, you don't really know what your various subordinates are thinking under stress.

    Source: www.pbs.org
  • Al Qaeda is not the organization now that it was before. It is under stress organizationally. Its leadership spends more time trying to figure out how to keep from getting caught than they do trying to launch operations.

  • There is not any way that you can just choose the nice bits and say that means there is a God and ignore the true fact of what nature is.

    Nice   Mean   Way  
    "The Importance of Unbelief". Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. December 8, 2009.
  • People always like to hear that they're under stress, makes them feel better. You can imagine what they'd feel if they were told they weren't under stress.

    "Jaws". "Forty Stories". Book by Donald Barthelme, 1987.
  • If something boils up under stress later, I remind myself to breathe and focus back to how I decided my day was going to go. It's simple but it works.

    Stress   Simple   Focus  
  • I wrote my thesis on the benefits of war and very near got thrown out of college. But I can show you where the greatest advancement of mankind comes under stress and strain, not comfort.

    Stress   War   College  
  • Stress is when you wake up screaming and realize you haven't fallen asleep yet

  • Male love circuits get an extra kick when stress levels are high. After an intense physical challenge, for instance, males will bond quickly and sexually with the first willing female they lay eyes on. Women, by contrast, will rebuff advances or expressions of affection and desire when under stress. The reason may be that the stress hormone cortisol blocks oxytocin's action in the female brain, abruptly shutting off a woman's desire for sex and physical touch.

    Sex   Stress   Block  
  • Science has a simple faith, which transcends utility... It is the faith that it is the privilege of man to learn to understand, and that this is his mission.

    "Science is Not Enough" by Vannevar Bush, Ch. X, (p. 191), 1967.
  • Science has a simple faith, which transcends utility. Nearly all men of science, all men of learning for that matter, and men of simple ways too, have it in some form and in some degree. It is the faith that it is the privilege of man to learn to understand, and that this is his mission. If we abandon that mission under stress we shall abandon it forever, for stress will not cease. Knowledge for the sake of understanding, not merely to prevail, that is the essence of our being. None can define its limits, or set its ultimate boundaries.

    "Science is Not Enough" by Vannevar Bush, Ch. X, (p. 191), 1967.
  • But it turns out that people who are grounded and secure don't change much under stress. That's what being grounded means.

    Stress   Mean   People  
    Michael Gruber (2010). “The Good Son: A Novel”, p.93, Henry Holt and Company
  • Research shows that when we're under stress or facing a major obstacle, we tend to focus on our weaknesses and what we're afraid of.

    Stress   Focus   Weakness  
    Source: www.usatoday.com
  • I had no doubts I could go to the pole. I may not be as strong, but I make up for physical strength in other areas, like steadiness and not panicking under stress.

    Strong   Stress   Doubt  
  • The capacity of man himself is only revealed when, under stress and responsibility, he breaks through his educational shell, and he may then be a splendid surprise to himself no less than to this teachers.

    Harvey Cushing (1940). “Consecratio Medici: And Other Papers”
  • When you choose to connect with others under stress, you can create resilience.

    "How to make stress your friend". TED Talk, www.ted.com. June 2013.
  • Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.

    Stress   Use   Emotion  
    Quoted in Patricia C Willis (ed) TheComplete Poems of Marianne Moore (1986).
  • The only pressure I'm under is the pressure I've put on myself.

  • Sometimes when people are under stress, they hate to think, and it's the time when they most need to think.

    Happiness   Hate   Stress  
  • Men have been barbarians much longer than they have been civilized. They are only precariously civilized, and within us there is the propensity, persistent as the force of gravity, to revert under stress and strain, under neglect or temptation, to our first natures.

    Stress   Men   Temptation  
    Walter Lippmann (1959). “The Public Philosophy”
  • When you're under stress as a human being, you behave oddly and your relationships with people become strained.

    Stress   People   Behave  
  • To me the early childhood story is an ecumenical one. You take poverty seriously. You take seriously maternal depression. You take seriously children under stress and you take seriously the effects of extended hours participation in poor quality care. Those are the facts I begin with.

  • Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing

  • Spiritual leadership ought to be given to those who have proven themselves under stress.

  • Coral reefs, the rain forest of the ocean, are home for one-third of the species of the sea. Coral reefs are under stress for several reasons, including warming of the ocean, but especially because of ocean acidification, a direct effect of added carbon dioxide. Ocean life dependent on carbonate shells and skeletons is threatened by dissolution as the ocean becomes more acid.

    Stress   Rain   Ocean  
  • When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.

    Peter Marshall (1949). “Prayers Offered by the Chaplain, the Rev. Peter Marshall, D.D.: At the Opening of the Daily Sessions of the Senate of the United States During the Eightieth and Eighty-first Congress 1947-1949”
  • Where'd the days go, when all we did was play? And the stress that we were under wasn't stress at all just a run and a jump into a harmless fall

    Running   Stress   Fall  
    Song: These Streets, Album: These Streets, 2006
  • It seems that we have it backward in our society. We tend to look up to people who are under a great deal of stress, who can handle loads of stress, and those who are under a great deal of pressure.

    Life   Stress   People  
    Richard Carlson (1999). “A Don't Sweat the Small Stuff Treasury: A Special Selection for Mothers”, Hyperion
  • The better work men do is always done under stress and at great personal cost.

    William Carlos Williams (1991). “The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams”, p.188, New Directions Publishing
  • The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.

    Happiness   Fear   Stress  
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