When you choose to view your stress response as helpful…

Dance releases energy mobilized by the fight-or-flight stress response that was otherwise restrained.

— Judith Lynne Hanna

We have this amazing ability to turn on the exactly same stress response worrying about a mortgage that a zebra does when it's sprinting…

— Robert Sapolsky

“the body is equipped with what Cannon named the stress response, also known as the fight-or-flight response, a survival mechanism that gets flipped on…

— Lissa Rankin

As I became more interested in behavior from the standpoint of neurobiology, the stress-response became really interesting. What stress physiology is about is -…

— Robert Sapolsky

“Significant stress in early childhood,” they write, “. . . result[s] in a hyperresponsive or chronically activated physiologic stress response, along with increased potential…

— J.D. Vance

“Work by Shelley Taylor of UCLA shows that “fight or flight” is the typical response to stress in males, and naturally, the stress literature…

— Robert M. Sapolsky

“The experience of stress has three components. The first is the event, physical or emotional, that the organism interprets as threatening. This is the…

— Gabor Maté

“Looking towards joy is the most important of rewiring the stress response”

— Miranda Hart

“Evolution has geared the human stress response to last about thirty seconds. It's enough time to facilitate fight or flight. Evolution has not adapted…

— David Amerland

“It turns out that our perspective has a surprising amount of influence over the body’s stress response. When we turn a threat into a…

— Dalai Lama XIV

The stress response is incredibly ancient evolutionarily. Fish, birds and reptiles secrete the same stress hormones we do, yet their metabolism doesn't get messed…

— Robert Sapolsky

“if you’re stressed like a normal mammal in an acute physical crisis, the stress response is lifesaving. But if instead you chronically activate the…

— Robert M. Sapolsky

“I look at it this way: the instinctive response to danger—the stress response—consists of fight, flight, or freeze. These three strategies help us survive…

— Christopher K. Germer

“UCLA psychologist Shelley Taylor has discovered a stress response that differs from fight or flight. She calls it tend and befriend. “One of the…

— Adam M. Grant

Your world will change whether or not you choose to change, but you have the power to choose it's direction.

— Napoleon Hill