“I could imagine God saying to a lot of us, "Hey, I'm God, and you're not. You're not the general manager of the universe." And the greatest stress reliever is take God seriously, but don't take yourself seriously.” UniverseImagineStressHeyManagersGeneral ManagerStress Reliever Author:Rick Warren
“Imagine that someone said or did something cruel to you, but that you did not react in any way whatsoever – you did not become upset, resentful or even ruffled. You simply observed that this person was saying or doing something cruel, as though you were calmly observing the scene in a movie. You simply would not be stressed by what would appear to others to be a highly stressful encounter. Stress and cruelty affect us as profoundly as they do only because we react to them resentfully.” WayPersonsSaidImagineSceneStressCrueltyUpsetEncountersImagine ThatObservingStressedStressfulResentful Author:Roy Masters
“People always like to hear that they're under stress, makes them feel better. You can imagine what they'd feel if they were told they weren't under stress.” PeopleIfsFeelsImagineStressFeel BetterUnder Stress Author:Donald Barthelme
“We worked out a lot of bugs and figured out who was working and who wasn't and how this beast functions. It was a lot bigger than we actually thought, and now we have a well-run ship where it feels I can actually have time to imagine and not just stress out about everything.” FeelsWellsI CanRunningArtistImagineFunctionBiggerStressShipsBeastBugs Author:Genevieve Gorder
“Such a person needs meditation more than anyone else because they are headed for a crisis. If stress and anxiety are so great that you can't even imagine a calm clear mind, that indicates you are reaching your coping limits, and need to begin something like meditation just for the stress reduction benefits.” IfsNeedsMindPersonsClearMeditationImagineLimitsAnxietyBenefitsStressCrisisCalmReachingCopingReductionStress And AnxietyClear MindsStress Reduction Author:Deepak Chopra
“Public infrastructure around the world is facing unprecedented stress, with hurricanes, cyclones, floods and forest fires all increasing in frequency and intensity. It's easy to imagine a future in which growing numbers of cities have their frail and long-neglected infrastructures knocked out by disasters and then are left to rot, their core services never repaired or rehabilitated.” WorldLongLeftEasyNumbersCitiesFireGrowingImagineStressCoreDisasterForestsAround The WorldIntensityFloodInfrastructureNeglectedFrequencyHurricanesUnprecedentedFrailForest FiresCyclones Book:The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism Source: The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
“Learning how to access a continuity of common sense can be one of your most efficient accomplishments in this decade. Can you imagine "common sense" surpassing science and technology in the quest to unravel the human stress mess? In time, society will have a new measure for confirming truth. It's inside the people-not at the mercy of current scientific methodology. Let scientists facilitate discovery, but not invent your inner truth.” PeopleHumansTruthCommonTechnologyImagineDiscoveryMercyScientistStressCurrentsDecadesAccessCommon SenseMessAccomplishmentEfficientQuestsContinuityScience And TechnologyFacilitateMethodologySurpassing Author:Doc Childre
“Let's say you don't want to stress the urgency of the gospel. Imagine that you are a hyper-Calvinist, and you just figure that people's salvation is a matter for the sovereignty of God. Well, if that's the case, there will never be the heartfelt pleading that you would see in a Spurgeon or an Edwards, or in the Apostle Paul where he pours out his heart in Romans 9 and 10 for the Jewish people.” PeopleIfsWantWellsHeartMatterCasesImagineFiguresStressSalvationImagine ThatSovereigntyApostlesUrgencyHeartfeltHyperPleadingSovereignty Of GodApostle PaulSpurgeon Author:Mark Dever
“In an era of stress and anxiety, when the present seems unstable and the future unlikely, the natural response is to retreat and withdraw from reality, taking recourse either in fantasies of the future or in modified visions of a half-imagined past.” RealitySeemsPastNaturalHalfVisionFantasyImagineAnxietyStressResponseErasRetreatUnlikelyUnstableRecourseStress And Anxiety Author:Alan Moore
“I truly cannot imagine men with men, women with women, doing what they were not physically created to do, without abnormal stress and misbehavior.” MenImagineStressMen WomenAbnormalNormal And Abnormal Author:Jerry Falwell