Selye Quotes

#1. 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.

Hans Selye

#2. 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.

Hans Selye

#3. Everybody has to know where they're coming from, what they're doing, why they're doing it, who they are. These are essentials.

Eli Roth

#4. You don't have to know much, just a little bit more than everybody else.

Harold Ramis

#5. Adapting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.

Hans Selye

#6. 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.

Hans Selye

#7. Unlock your natural drives by doing what you enjoy.

Hans Selye

#8. Who would enjoy a life of no runs, no hits, no errors?

Hans Selye

#9. You can't marginalize more than half of the globe's population and expect to see any meaningful solutions to the problems that ail the world.

Helene D. Gayle

#10. Nothing erases unpleasant thoughts more effectively than conscious concentration on pleasant ones.

Hans Selye

#11. So there's a cloud of rage around me, but being an artist kind of changes that. No matter what you thought coming in, what ignorant thing you believed, you're in show business for two years, you're like, "OK, I was wrong." It's hard to be mad at any particular group of people when you're an artist.

Chris Rock

#12. The marriage twists, holds firm, a sailor's knot.

Anne Sexton

#13. Thousands die each year because they are uninsured or under-insured.

Jerrold Nadler

#14. I know Simon and I will always be enemies..
But I thought maybe we'd get to a point where we didn't want to be.

Rainbow Rowell

#15. To make a great dream come true, you must first have a great dream.

Hans Selye

#16. As to behavior, the leader must be respectable. A well-ordered life is the fruit of a well-ordered mind. The life of the leader should reflect the beauty and orderliness of God.

J. Oswald Sanders

#17. Stress is the spice of life.

Hans Selye

#18. The builder of the best racing car is not necessarily its best driver.

Hans Selye

#19. Every stress leaves an indelible scar, and the organism pays for its survival after a stressful situation by becoming a little older.

Hans Selye

#20. The healthiest of all human emotions is gratitude.

Hans Selye

#21. Here! answered a husky voice from above, and, running up, Meg found her

Louisa May Alcott

#22. The true scientist never loses the faculty of amazement.

Hans Selye

#23. If you want to live a long life, focus on making contributions.

Hans Selye

#24. 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.

Hans Selye

#25. Gratitude conserves the vital energies of a person more than any other attitude tested.

Hans Selye

#26. To remain healthy a man must have some goal, some purpose in life that he can respect and be proud to work for.

Hans Selye

#27. 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.

Hans Selye

#28. As much as we thirst for approval, we dread condemnation.

Hans Selye

#29. To be totally without stress is to be dead.

Hans Selye

#30. 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.

Hans Selye

#31. Almost no germ is unconditionally dangerous to man; its disease-producing ability depends upon the body's resistance.

Hans Selye

#32. Men are failures, not because they are stupid, but because they are not sufficiently impassioned.

Maxwell Struthers Burt

#33. Conceptual integrity is the most important consideration in system design.

Fred Brooks

#34. Man should not try to avoid stress any more than he would shun food, love or exercise.

Hans Selye

#35. Complete freedom from stress is death

Hans Selye

#36. 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.

Hans Selye

#37. God Himself underwrites your battle and has appointed His own Son 'the captain of your salvation'.

William Gurnall

#38. We're gathered here with

Rachel Hauck

#39. Gratitude is the most important of all human emotions.

Hans Selye

#40. Leaders are leaders only as long as they have the respect and loyalty of their followers.

Hans Selye

#41. Stress, in addition to being itself, was also the cause of itself, and the result of itself.

Hans Selye

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

Hans Selye

#43. Why is the church failing so miserably in impacting the nations of the earth?

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