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Stress Quotes
Pressure at work, on stage, and on the body.
This page ranges from the tension of a demanding flight role to an older idea that weak men overemphasize stubbornness. A music-focused line urges teachers to stress musicality over mechanics in percussion instruction. See Feel quotes for related reflections.
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What basically happens is your hormones get out of whack. Because of the stress in your life your body says, 'I need more hormones.' So, your hormones are trying to produce and produce and produce, and it's even more stressful and it is this wicked cycle.
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I have hardly detained the reader long enough on the subject, to give him a just impression of the stress laid on confession. It is one of the great points to which our attention was constantly directed.
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I saw the waterboarding device in Cambodia's notorious Tuol Sleng prison in Phnom Penh and did not see another until I was strapped down on an identical one at SERE. Waterboarding was administered as a 'stress demonstrator' to show that an enemy could make one say anything. And one does.
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To help students steel themselves for captivity, SERE used a variety of 'stress and duress' techniques. The military's encyclopedic knowledge of these techniques was paid for in American blood because it was gleaned from former POWs tortured by totalitarian regimes. One technique, waterboarding, was a historically well-known torture.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Stress is the reason for crime and all other kinds of frustration. To relieve it will eliminate everything else.
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Most female CEOs have been more understanding than their male counterparts, of the stress that new mothers experience to 'do it all,' which often means, 'all by themselves.' Why? They've been there. They understand the policies needed to keep women in the workforce.
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My new year's resolution is to stop making five-year plans. I stress over where I'm going to be in five years so often.
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I have a couple of basses in my office. And I try to be courteous of my co-workers, but sometimes I get carried away and I crank up my amp and I rock out. It's kind of my stress reliever.
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a terrible price to pay for stress in your life - it really takes a hit on your heart.
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