Hans Selye Quotes
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A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.
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And one by one the nights between our separated cities are joined to the night that unites us.
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Stress is the reason for crime and all other kinds of frustration. To relieve it will eliminate everything else.
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I don't think Will does get upstaged because his reaction is always funnier than what is actually happening. That is also the reason Tommy is funnier than Will.
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Meditation isn't snake oil. For some people, meditation might be the most efficient way to reduce stress and cultivate mindfulness. But it isn't a panacea. If you don't meditate, there's no need to stress out about it.
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I've seen a study in the last year that digital sound actually induces stress in the listener.
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I don't think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow.
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I definitely use my music to kind of alleviate my stress and get me through specific moments in time where I'm just being really tough on myself.
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Give us enough but with a sparing hand.
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The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses.
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It's not just that government has failed us. It's not just that we have failed ourselves. It's government. It's individuals. It's sort of everything in between, from families and communities and neighborhoods, churches and so forth.
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When you're in a high-stress situation, dynamics between people can change.
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We cannot comprehend what comprehends us.
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It is important to stress: Africa is also a victim of the September 11 attacks.
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Before the palefaces came among us, we enjoyed the happiness of unbounded freedom and were acquainted with neither riches, wants, nor oppression.
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Because the living environment is what really sustains us.
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Every week brings to us 10,080 minutes That is our capital. How shall we use it to get the utmost benefit?
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It shows 'us vs. them', and I'm on the 'us' side.
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Nonetheless, the research budgets of the Department of Defense are under enormous stress-and they are extremely important because they support more than 40 percent of all federal funding for engineering schools across the country. So the threat was and is real.
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When I'm grateful for all the blessings, it puts away all the stress about things not in my control. Things like long hours, aging, pollution, scandals... it helps me create perspective by just focusing on being grateful. Take that moment twice a day with yourself.
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I enjoy learning about different periods and people, and then taking what's universal about the human condition and seeing where it matches up. No matter where you are, certain things unite everybody.
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I owe my own fluency with language to Brooklyn. Everyone talked about everything, from the Dodgers to the revolution.
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I'll tell you this, lad: A tattoo says more of a fellow looking at it than it can do of the man who's got it on his back.
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Its not stress that kills us, it is our reaction to it.