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In times of life crisis, whether wild fires or smoldering stress, the first thing I do is go back to basics... am I eating right, am I getting enough sleep, am I getting some physical and mental exercise everyday.

I must stress here the point that I appreciate clarity, order, meaning, structure, rationality: they are necessary to whatever provisional stability we have, and they can be the agents of gradual and successful change.

Running is a great way to relieve stress and clear the mind.

The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy.

I'm picking and choosing in terms of the stress factor. If it's not fun, I'm not going to do it.

If we pursue this matter further, we shall be told that the stable object is unchanging under the impact or stress of some particular external or internal variable or, perhaps, that it resists the passage of time.

We're all proud of the communities that we've built and are a part of, but we shouldn't accept lost time and unnecessary stress when traveling in them.

There's a hysterical, tired sense of humor that comes after working 14 hours a day, six days a week. I like those things because they take the pressure off the constant stress.

Al Qaeda is not the organization now that it was before. It is under stress organizationally. Its leadership spends more time trying to figure out how to keep from getting caught than they do trying to launch operations.

Directors and writers have a lot of stress as well, because they have people they answer to.

I stress the uniqueness of the Australian landscape and its metaphysical and mythic content.

I have this helicopter crash, and I fall in love with this man who was in the crash with me. I must have been suffering from post-traumatic stress syndrome.

On the other hand, I still approach each book with the same basic plan in mind - to put some people under severe stress and see how they hold up.

There's a lot of stress... but once you get in the car, all that goes out the window.

The key to winning is poise under stress.

I've seen a study in the last year that digital sound actually induces stress in the listener.

If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding worry, stress and tension. And if you didn't ask me, I'd still have to say it.

Be these people either Conservatives or Socialists, Yellows or Reds, the most important thing is - and that is the point I want to stress - that all of them are right in the plain and moral sense of the word.

Stress is nothing more than a socially acceptable form of mental illness.

It seems that we have it backward in our society. We tend to look up to people who are under a great deal of stress, who can handle loads of stress, and those who are under a great deal of pressure.