stress quotes

Sturm und Drang. Storm and stress.

- Christoph Kaufmann
c.1775  Suggested title for a romantic historical play of F M Klinger, adopted as the defining term for late-18c German drama.

A person of bourgeois origin goes through life with some expectation of getting what he wants, within reasonable limits. Hence the fact that in times of stress 'educated'people tend to come to the front.

- George pseudonym of  Eric Arthur Blair Orwell
  The Road to Wigan Pier, ch.3.

Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.

- Ezra Loomis Pound
Quoted in Patricia C Willis (ed) The Complete Poems of Marianne Moore (1986).

Stress is the state manifested bya specific syndrome which consists of all the nonspecifically inducted changes within a biologic system.

- Hans Selye
  The Stress of Life.

'Future shock'†the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time.

- Alvin Toffler
  Future Shock.