Top 29 Hans Selye Quotes
#1. Stress is not necessarily something bad it all depends on how you take it. The stress of exhilarating, creative successful work is beneficial, while that of failure, humiliation or infection is detrimental.
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#2. Gratitude conserves the vital energies of a person more than any other attitude tested.
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#3. To remain healthy a man must have some goal, some purpose in life that he can respect and be proud to work for.
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#4. My advice to any young person at the beginning of their career is to try to look for the mere outlines of big things with their fresh, untrained and unprejudiced mind.
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#5. As much as we thirst for approval, we dread condemnation.
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#6. To be totally without stress is to be dead.
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#7. A long, healthy, and happy life is the result of making contributions, of having meaningful projects that are personally exciting and contribute to and bless the lives of others.
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#8. Almost no germ is unconditionally dangerous to man; its disease-producing ability depends upon the body's resistance.
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#9. If you want to live a long life, focus on making contributions.
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#10. Complete freedom from stress is death
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#11. The element of chance in basic research is overrated. Chance is a lady who smiles only upon those few who know how to make her smile.
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#12. Gratitude is the most important of all human emotions.
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#13. Leaders are leaders only as long as they have the respect and loyalty of their followers.
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#14. Stress, in addition to being itself, was also the cause of itself, and the result of itself.
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#15. Its not stress that kills us, it is our reaction to it.
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#16. Hans Selye, the pioneer in the understanding of human stress, was often asked the following question: "What is the most stressful condition a person can face?" His unexpected response: "Not having something to BELIEVE in.
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#17. Man should not try to avoid stress any more than he would shun food, love or exercise.
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#18. Adapting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.
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#19. Mental tensions, frustrations, insecurity, aimlessness are among the most damaging stressors, and psychosomatic studies have shown how often they cause migraine headache, peptic ulcers, heart attacks, hypertension, mental disease, suicide, or just hopeless unhappiness.
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#20. Unlock your natural drives by doing what you enjoy.
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#21. Who would enjoy a life of no runs, no hits, no errors?
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#22. Nothing erases unpleasant thoughts more effectively than conscious concentration on pleasant ones.
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#23. Indeed, not all attacks - especially the bitter and ridiculing kind leveled at Darwin - are offered in good faith, but for practical purposes it is good policy to assume that they are.
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#24. To make a great dream come true, you must first have a great dream.
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#26. The builder of the best racing car is not necessarily its best driver.
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#27. Every stress leaves an indelible scar, and the organism pays for its survival after a stressful situation by becoming a little older.
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#28. The healthiest of all human emotions is gratitude.
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#29. The true scientist never loses the faculty of amazement.
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