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Under Stress Quotes

I had no doubts I could go to the pole. I may not be as strong, but I make up for physical strength in other areas, like steadiness and not panicking under stress.
- Ann Bancroft

He's out there waiting for us. We his the street, and we're ducks in a barrel. (Steele)
Isn't that fish in a barrel? (Syd)
Don't fuck with my metaphors right now, Syd. Can't you see that I'm under stress? (Steele)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon

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.
- Cofer Black

The key to winning is poise under stress.
- Paul Brown

Sometimes when people are under stress, they hate to think, and it's the time when they most need to think.
- William J Clinton

The capacity of man himself is only revealed when, under stress and responsibility, he breaks through his educational shell, and he may then be a splendid surprise to himself no less than to this teachers.
- Harvey Cushing

A women under stress is not immediately concerned with finding solutions to her problems but rather seeks relief by expressing herself and being understood.
- John Gray

It's a damn sight harder making stuff up when you're under stress than you'd think.
- J K Rowling

The mind can go either direction under stresstoward positive or toward negative: on or off. Think of it as a spectrum whose extremes are unconsciousness at the negative end and hyperconsciousness at the positive end. The way the mind will lean under stress is strongly influenced by training.
- Frank Herbert

I can't work well when I am under stress. It reduces me to normalcy. Stress is my kryptonite. And I usually don't change in phone booths, though I do take long distance showers there.
- Jarod Kintz

Why, my goodness, honey. After looking at all those pictures of seraphic and perspirationless babes for so long in the privacy of a foxhole, what is a poor doughfoot going to do when he comes home and discovers that American women are, after all, biological and given, under stress, to shiny noses?
- Margaret Mitchell

I'm under stress. They killed me on wikipedia. They killed me. And I didn't stay dead long enough to sell no DVDs. I didn't even stay dead long enough - I was too stupid. I should've stayed low. I should've laid low. I could've been gone for a year; I'd have made money. And then I'd have risen from the dead.
- Sinbad

I wrote my thesis on the benefits of war and very near got thrown out of college. But I can show you where the greatest advancement of mankind comes under stress and strain, not comfort.
- Don Young

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