Stress Overload Quotes

#1. Stress overload makes us stupid. Solid research proves it. When we get overstressed, it creates a nasty chemical soup in our brains that makes it hard to pull out of the anxious depressive spiral.

Gail Sheehy

#2. I was only 44, which is childhood philosophy.

Will Durant

#3. We live in God's amusement park.

Dean Koontz

#4. I don't know if it's because my father's from Argentina, that I'm the son of an immigrant, I don't know if its because I'm Jewish, but I have always been mindful that the best insights occur when you have some kind of an outsider perspective.

Mark Leibovich

#5. Can you keep it all business Shelby?" he asked as he tipped her chin up. "Somehow I don't think you can.

C.W. Stokes

#6. The true problem of old age is a young spirit being locked in an enfeebled body.

Eraldo Banovac

#7. In hacking, like painting, work comes in cycles. Sometimes you get excited about a new project and you want to work sixteen hours a day on it. Other times nothing seems interesting.

Paul Graham

#8. I really think that people have to think safety; taking risks for higher yield is a bad idea once you're in late or latish middle age.

Paul Krugman

#9. At the end of your life there will be many people you won't be acquainted with.
Make sure you are not among them.

Luigina Sgarro

#10. God gave each of us a soul, which is a candle that He gives us to illuminate our surroundings with His light," the Rebbe taught at a 1990 worldwide Chanukah satellite linkup. "We must not only illuminate the inside of homes, but also the outside, and the world at large.

Joseph Telushkin

#11. Ideology is a straight-edge ruler in a fractal universe.

Marilynne Robinson

#12. 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

#13. Wherever poesie can be felt, all poetic touches are superfluous.

Robert Walser

#14. After dinner, we were all in the kitchen helping with the dishes, and I had the thought, Someone should go check on Momma. And that's when I started to cry.

Penny Reid