Every stress leaves an indelible scar, and the organism pays for its survival after a stressful situation by becoming a little older.
HANS SELYEMan should not try to avoid stress any more than he would shun food, love or exercise.
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Complete freedom from stress is death.
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To be totally without stress is to be dead.
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Man should not try to avoid stress any more than he would shun food, love or exercise.
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Stress, in addition to being itself, was also the cause of itself, and the result of itself.
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To make a great dream come true, you must first have a great dream.
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Its not stress that kills us, it is our reaction to it.
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As much as we thirst for approval we dread condemnation.
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Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.
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Even after the greatest defeats, the depressing thought of being a failure is best combated by taking stock of all your past achievements.
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Nothing erases unpleasant thoughts more effectively than conscious concentration on pleasant ones.
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The healthiest of all human emotions is gratitude.
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Unlock your natural drives by doing what you enjoy.
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The element of chance in basic research is overrated. Chance is a lady who smiles only upon those few who know how to make her smile.
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Who would enjoy a life of no runs, no hits, no errors?
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My advice to any young person at the beginning of their career is to try to look for the mere outlines of big things with their fresh, untrained and unprejudiced mind.
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