Best stress & strain Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Let architects sing of aesthetics that bring Rich clients in hordes to their knees; Just give me a home, in a great circle dome Where stresses and strains are at ease.”

Giving Home Rich Give Me Stress Architecture Circles Ease Knees Architect Aesthetic Clients Strain Aesthetics Horde Domes Architecture Design Architecture And Art

Author:R. Buckminster Fuller

“The primary function of art is not to imitate or represent or interpret, but to create a living thing; it is the reduction of all life to a perfectly composed and dynamic miniature - a microcosm where there is perfect balance of emotion and intellect, stress and strain resolving itself, form rhythmically poised in three dimensions.”

Art Form Three Perfect Emotion Balance Art Is Function Stress Intellect Primaries Dimensions Strain Living Things Reduction Miniatures Microcosm Perfect Balance Three Dimensions

Author:Lawren Harris

“I did not write it [Coming of Age in Samoa] as a popular book, but only with the hope that it would be intelligible to those who might make the best use of its theme, that adolescence need not be the time of stress and strain which Western society made it; that growing up could be freer and easier and less complicated; and also that there were prices to pay for the very lack of complication I found in Samoa - less intensity, less individuality, less involvement with life.”

“Thousands of engineers can design bridges, calculate strains and stresses, and draw up specifications for machines, but the great engineer is the man who can tell whether the bridge or the machine should be built at all, where it should be built, and when.”

Men Should Design He Man Draws Built Machines Stress Planning Bridges Engineers Strain Specifications

Author:Eugene Grace

“My best life advice:Take the high road.No matter how much stress, or strain, or consternation you are facing, take the high road.You will never regret it.”

Matter Advice Regret Stress Strain Never Regret High Road Taking The High Road Consternation

Author:Tim Gunn

“The consciousness of being borne up by a spiritual tradition that goes back for centuries gives one a feeling of confidence and security in the face of all passing strains and stresses.”

Giving Feelings Faces Spiritual Consciousness Century Security Tradition Stress Passing Passings Strain

Book:Letters Papers from Prison

Source: Letters Papers from Prison

“Communities need to feel that they can accommodate people. Rather than feeling that it's not possible to integrate and that the stress and strain on housing and public services is too great.”

People Needs Feels Feelings Community Stress Strain Housing Public Service Integrating Accommodate

Author:Theresa May

“When we won the league championship, all the married guys on the club had to thank their wives for putting up with all the stress and strain all season. I had to thank all the single broads in New York.”

Guy Wife New York Married Seasons Stress Clubs League Broads Championship Strain

Author:Joe Namath

“All life on Earth is subject to the rumbles and rockings of the parent stucture which has no control over the disastrous effects of its stresses and strains on whatever thrives on its surface. The ambitions and dreams of men are irrelevant to this planetary giant which pursues its own way in its own manner. Man is its child, tenant and still, to this date, its captive.”

Men Way Children Stills Dream Earth Parent Subjects Effects Ambition Stress Surface Pursue Giants Thrive Irrelevant Strain Captives Tenants Rumble Ambitions And Dreams

Author:Jack Kirby

“The strains and stresses suffered by the individual in society are grounded in the normal functioning of that society (and of the individual!) rather than in its disturbances and diseases.”

Individual Disease Normal Stress Grounded Strain Disturbance

Book:Negations; essays in critical theory

Source: Negations; essays in critical theory

“When I pick up one of my children and cuddle them, all the strain and stress of life temporarily disappears. There is nothing more wonderful than motherhood and no-one will ever love you as much as a small child.”

Children Mother Wonderful Love You Mom Picks Stress Motherhood Disappear My Children Strain Being A Mom Small Child

Author:Nicola Horlick

“People are subject to moods, to temptations and fears, lethargy and aberration and ignorance, and the staunchest qualities shift under the stresses and strains of daily life.”

People Quality Subjects Ignorance Stress Mood Temptation Daily Life Strain Aberration Lethargy

Author:Ilka Chase

“Success is not measured in achievement of goals, but in the stress and strain of meeting those goals”

Goal Achievement Stress Meetings Strain Setting Goals Success Is Not Measured

Author:Spencer W. Kimball

“We've got some very strong and robust ladies, but, when your life is at risk, I think the strain of that in a competitive situation will tell when you're trying to win. The mental stress I think would be pretty difficult for a lady to deal with in a practical fashion. I just don't think they have aptitude to win a Formula 1 race.”

Thinking Trying Would Be Life Is Winning Strong Difficult Deals Race Situation Risk Fashion Stress Practicals Formulas Very Strong Strain Robust Aptitude Formula 1

Author:Stirling Moss

“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.”

I Can War Shows Mankind College Comfort Benefits Stress Thrown Strain Advancement Thesis Under Stress

Author:Don Young

“Drop Thy still dews of quietness, Till all our strivings cease; Take from our souls the strain and stress, And let our ordered lives confess The beauty of Thy peace.”

Life Stills Soul Stress Strive Cease Strain Dew Quietness

Book:Poems of Nature, Poems Subjective and Reminiscent and Religious Poems, Complete Volume II., the Works of Whittier

Source: Poems of Nature, Poems Subjective and Reminiscent and Religious Poems, Complete Volume II., the Works of Whittier

“The stresses, strains, and traumas of ordinary daily existence in the process of working and living tend to inhibit our breathing ability.”

Process Ability Existence Ordinary Stress Trauma Breathing Strain

Author:Leonard Orr

“When the mind is opening to that unbounded pure awareness, the field of pure intelligence, simultaneously the body is losing stresses and strains, and thereby the clouds that were hindering the use of inner full creative intelligence in action, they begin to wither away.”

Mind Use Body Action Creative Awareness Fields Pure Losing Stress Clouds Opening Strain Creative Intelligence

Author:Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

“For thirty years now, in times of stress and strain, when something has me backed against the wall and I'm ready to do something really stupid with my anger, a sorrowful face appears in my mind and asks... "Problem or inconvenience?" I think of this as the Wollman Test of Reality. Life is lumpy. And a lump in the oatmeal, a lump in the throat, and a lump in the breast are not the same lump. One should learn the difference.”

“Men have been barbarians much longer than they have been civilized. They are only precariously civilized, and within us there is the propensity, persistent as the force of gravity, to revert under stress and strain, under neglect or temptation, to our first natures.”

Men Firsts Has Beens Force Stress Temptation Neglect Civilized Gravity Strain Persistent Barbarians Barbarism Propensity Under Stress

Book:The Public Philosophy

Source: The Public Philosophy

“The cure to combat the three Ss- stress, strain, and speed- can be found in three Ws- the work of devoted practice, the wisdom that comes of understanding the self and the world, and worship because ultimately surrendering to what we cannot control allows the ego to relax and lose the anxiety of its own infinitesimally small self in the infinitude of the divine.”

World Self Three Found Understanding Loses Practice Divine Ego Anxiety Worship Stress Speed Cures Relax Combat Devoted Strain

Author:B.K.S. Iyengar

“Market values are fixed only in part by balance sheets and income statements; much more by the hopes and fears of humanity; by greed, ambition, acts of God, invention, financial stress and strain, weather, discovery, fashion and numberless other causes impossible to be listed without omission.”

Source: Battle for Investment Survival

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