Hans Selye Quotes

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• Man should not try to avoid stress any more than he would shun food, love or exercise
• Stress is not necessarily something bad it all depends on how you take it. The stress of exhilarating, creative successful work is beneficial, while that…
• Stress is the spice of life.
• The fairest thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true science. He who knows…
• Leaders are leaders only as long as they have the respect and loyalty of their followers.
• I doubt that Fleming could have obtained a grant for the discovery of penicillin on that basis [a requirement for highly detailed research plans] because…
• Unlock your natural drives by doing what you enjoy.
• My advice to any young person at the beginning of their career is to try to look for the mere outlines of big things with…
• Indeed, not all attacks-especially the bitter and ridiculing kind leveled at Darwin-are offered in good faith, but for practical purposes it is good policy to…
• Almost no germ is unconditionally dangerous to man; its disease-producing ability depends upon the body's resistance.
• The healthiest of all human emotions is gratitude.
• Gratitude conserves the vital energies of a person more than any other attitude tested.
• To be totally without stress is to be dead.
• Gratitude is the most important of all human emotions.
• Stress, in addition to being itself, was also the cause of itself, and the result of itself.
• If you want to live a long life, focus on making contributions .
• What makes me so certain that the natural human lifespan is far in excess of the actual one is this. Among all my autopsies (and…
• Random search for data on ... off-chance is hardly scientific. A questionnaire on 'Intellectual Immoralities' was circulated by a well-known institution. 'Intellectual Immorality No. 4'…
• It is generally assumed that recurrent miscarriage may be due to progesterone deficiency, hypothyroidism or vitamin E deficiency and should be treated in theses cases…
• Even after the greatest defeats, the depressing thought of being a failure is best combated by taking stock of all your past achievements.

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