Stressor Quotes

#1. The primary one among executives, she says, is an inability to rely on other people: when most executives face a massive challenge or stressor, they try to figure out how to solve the problem alone.

Shawn Achor

#2. On an incredibly simplistic level, you can think of depression as occurring when your cortex thinks an abstract thought and manages to convince the rest of the brain that this is as real as a physical stressor.

Robert M. Sapolsky

#3. The most common emotional defense is avoidance (an ineffective coping skill for any stressor) as expressed through denial (e.g., "That wasn't really bad, I barely remember it").

Brian Luke Seaward

#4. The Concept of Internal and External Stressor is a Misnomer. All Stress is Created Finally Through an Internal Mechanism Mediated by Our Thoughts.

Kiran Dintyala

#5. Having a parent live with you under the best of circumstances can be a terrible stressor.

Katie Hafner

#6. Trauma is any stressor that occurs in a sudden and forceful way and is experienced as overwhelming.

Stephanie S. Covington

#7. It is said that the best horses lose when they compete with slower ones and win against better rivals. Undercompensation from the absence of a stressor,inverse hormesis, absence of challenge, degrades the best of the best.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#8. 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

#9. N matter how stressed Claire became, the tropical trees and exotic island flowers decorating the lobby always managed to take her breath away and put her mind at ease. Nature had always been a good de-stressor for her coming in close behind having her hand held by Mr. Sam Stewart

Carolyn Gibbs

#10. People around the world now complain about stressors everyday, and the word shows up throughout professional and lay literature. But in reality there is no such thing as a stressor. Why not? Because nothing has the inherent power to provoke stress.

Andrew J. Bernstein

#11. Could there be a stressor as bad as this? Struggling to say a thing in a way you think people would be comfortable to hear you say it.

Chukwuka Amu

#12. Stress is never a given. There are people who get divorced amicably. There are people who pack up and move with no emotional toll. There is no stressor 'out there' in the world. We experience stress - or we don't - depending on what we believe.

Andrew J. Bernstein

#13. If somebody actually came to me and said, 'O.K., this is it: write your last 'South Park' episodes,' I'd be like, 'No, no, no.'

Trey Parker

#14. No man will be present in those mysteries,
yet all men will kneel,
no man will be potent,
important,
yet all men will feel
what it is to be a woman.

Hilda Doolittle

#15. If I have a connection with someone, I'd like to think that they'd be able to respect that connection enough and respect themselves enough to not care about my past - that they would want to see what happens between us.

Jamie Clayton

#16. To follow implies not only the denying of one's own clarity, investigation, integrity and honesty , but it also implies that your motive in following, your motive is a reward .

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#17. I wondered where he was now whether I would ever hear him again. Whether someone would love him, someday show him what beauty mean't.

Janet Fitch