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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The first reactions are often instinctive. So one of the first things we said was that the Chinese had no right to inspect the plane, and that we had a sovereign right to. I don't know what the legal position is, but it was surely psychologically absolutely the unwise thing to do.
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To be a good artist, you have to serve the work of art and allow it to be what it is supposed to be.
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I don't care how people treat me. I care about my message living on through other people.
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Robert De Niro... It seemed like a pretty cool thing to do to put his name on my resume next.
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We are an enemy of the nuclear threat and we are an enemy of testing nuclear weapons in the South Pacific. New Zealand did not buy into this fight. France put agents into New Zealand. France put spies into New Zealand. France lets off bombs in the Pacific. France puts its President in the Pacific to crow about it.
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Its not stress that kills us, it is our reaction to it.
