Nagoski Stress Quotes

#1. After making insulting remarks about Mexicans, Donald Trump has been kicked off of NBC and Univision. On the bright side, Trump's hair has a new show on Animal Planet.

Conan O'Brien

#2. When someone makes you happy, it's pretty impossible to cage the excitement.

Adam Silvera

#3. I had supported Governor George W. Bush over Senator John McCain in the 2000 Rhode Island presidential primary.

Lincoln Chafee

#4. But the jungle, like all refuges, was entirely other - was both less and more - than he had expected.

Salman Rushdie

#5. Because you've dealt with the stressor," I said, "but not the stress. Your bodies still think you're being chased by the lion.

Emily Nagoski

#6. What a splendid little war!

John Hayes

#7. People say I'm a feminist, but in truth, I am an equalist. I believe that everyone, male and female, should be free to be whom and what they are. Not to fit into some tight cultural box.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#8. Does he have ugly hands? Sometimes beautiful people have ugly hands.

Anonymous

#9. It appeared as if the whole world was one elaborate system, opposed to justice and kindness, and set to making cruelty and pain.

Upton Sinclair

#10. We also know that the brain can handle only a limited amount of information at a time; at its simplest, we can think of stress as information overload, so when there's too much happening, the brain starts to triage, prioritizing, simplifying, and even plain old ignoring some things.

Emily Nagoski

#11. I found that whatever interested me in life, I could pretty much pick up the phone, call somebody, and all of a sudden be in the middle of it.

Bo Derek

#12. Physical activity is the single most efficient strategy for completing the stress response cycle and recalibrating your central nervous system into a calm state. When people say, 'Exercise is good for stress,' that is for realsie real.

Emily Nagoski

#13. Truth is never ugly when one can find in it what one needs.

Edgar Degas

#14. Empathy isn't as hard as it sounds because people have a lot of the same feelings. And it helps to understand other people because then you can actually care about them sometimes. And help them. And have a friend.

Kathryn Erskine

#15. I am not invested with dictatorial powers. If I were, I should be quite ready to dictate.

Winston Churchill