Hans Selye on oneself
Hans Selye27 quotes“Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.”
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To be totally without stress is to be dead.
Hans SelyeHans Selye Indeed, not all attacks-especially the bitter and ridiculing kind leveled at Darwin-are offered in good faith, but for practical purposes it is good policy to assume that they are.
Hans SelyeHans Selye Gratitude conserves the vital energies of a person more than any other attitude tested.
Hans SelyeHans Selye Its not stress that kills us, it is our reaction to it.
Hans SelyeHans Selye To make a great dream come true, you must first have a great dream.
Hans SelyeHans Selye Stress is the spice of life.
Hans SelyeHans Selye The builder of the best racing car is not necessarily its best driver.
Hans SelyeHans Selye Nothing erases unpleasant thoughts more effectively than conscious concentration on pleasant ones.
Hans SelyeHans Selye Gratitude is the most important of all human emotions.
Hans SelyeHans Selye Almost no germ is unconditionally dangerous to man; its disease-producing ability depends upon the body’s resistance.
Hans SelyeHans Selye 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.
Hans SelyeHans Selye Even after the greatest defeats, the depressing thought of being a failure is best combated by taking stock of all your past achievements.
Hans SelyeHans Selye Who would enjoy a life of no runs, no hits, no errors?
Hans SelyeHans Selye Every stress leaves an indelible scar, and the organism pays for its survival after a stressful situation by becoming a little older.
Hans SelyeHans Selye To remain healthy a man must have some goal, some purpose in life that he can respect and be proud to work for.
Hans SelyeHans Selye Stress is not necessarily something bad it all depends on how you take it. The stress of exhilarating, creative successful work is beneficial, while that of failure, humiliation or infection is detrimental.
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Elezabeth SymondElezabeth Symond I heard many tongues in many languages saying that people cannot be Gods, and that’s a given. But what if people don’t know what was given to them?
Nikol MejdnNikol Mejdn Pride – it screams a lot louder than love sometimes.
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Simone de BeauvoirSimone de Beauvoir To be pleased with one’s limits is a wretched state.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheJohann Wolfgang von Goethe Every day one should at least hear one little song, read one good poem, see one fine painting and – if at all possible – speak a few sensible words.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheJohann Wolfgang von Goethe Let No One Fall Idle.
XenophonXenophon Well, I am the one who loves changing from nothing to one.
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