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 our brains or bodies to handle weeks or months of prolonged stress.
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Related To be, or not to be, that is the question. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE To be or not to be. That's not really a question. JEAN-LUC GODARD I also know about running away," I said, "when staying around is so much harder. And I know the happ... FAITH HUNTER I also know about running away," I said, when staying around is so much harder. And I know the happi... FAITH HUNTER The terrifying fear of a crash had triggered the fight-or-flight response in the child, making him b... PAWAN MISHRA Do I have the courage of being a ruthless man to myself with the complete knowledge on my manner or ... FEREIDOON YAZDI I know that David Tennant's Hamlet isn't till July. And lots of people are going to be doing Dr Who ... NEIL GAIMAN To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be. GOLDA MEIR To be mad is worse than not to be if this is what it is. JOHNNY RICH Hamlet's Cat's Soliloquy "To go outside, and there perchance to stay Or to re... HENRY N. BEARD To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being. TOM ROBBINS If you have ever procrastinated and then found yourself energized to complete a task at the last min... GUDJON BERGMANN He tried to decide if he was really ashamed of being afraid, and decided that he was not. Fear was t... IAIN M. BANKS evolution is not progress, that there is no ‘goal’ or direction to evolution. Evolution is chang... DAN SIMMONS The quest of the Inner Ring will break your hearts unless you break it. But if you break it, a surpr... C.S. LEWIS Unless biology is geared toward an evolution perspective, we are going to a dead-end. Our science co... DR BERHANE ASFAW Fear is a human emotion that is triggered by a perceived threat. It is a basic survival mechanism th... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA My time has been passed viciously and agreeably; at thirty-one so few years months days hours or min... LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON To genetic evolution, the human lineage has added the parallel track of cultural evolution. EDWARD O. WILSON The detection of a person as safe or dangerous triggers neurobiologically determined pro-social or d... STEPHEN W. PORGES HYPERAROUSAL After a traumatic experience, the human system of self-preservation seems to go on... JUDITH LEWIS HERMAN A panic attack is pathological exaggeration of the body’s normal response to fear, stress or excit... ABHIJIT NASKAR Obsession with conventional ideas of 'success' can be harmful enough, but compound that stre... ARIEL GARTEN During the time of stress, the “fight-or-flight” response is on and the self-repair mechanism is... ANNIE WILSON To date or not to date that is the question. It's almost as important as Shakespeare's to be... AL GOLDSTEIN Fear of a bully, fear of a volcano; the power within you does not distinguish. It does not recognize... N.K. JEMISIN France has noticed a light, or gradual, evolution in the American position. DENIS SIMONNEAU There is time for a fight and a time for a flight; knowing the right time to do one or the other can... BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA If you were to ask everyone what 'Hamlet' was about, they might say, "It's about a ... ORLANDO BLOOM Yes! Very funny this terrible thing is. A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls i... JOSEPH CONRAD Modern human evolution has reached the point of reporting corruption to the corrupt. STEVEN MAGEE The district has not received any formal or informal response to that last proposal. MARGARET DININNO Even if it were true that evolution, or the teaching of evolution, encouraged immorality that would ... RICHARD DAWKINS Evolution has ensured that our brains just aren't equipped to visualise 11 dimensions directly. ... STEPHEN HAWKING Stress has become more commonplace and accepted in our everyday lives. Many studies show the negativ... SONIA J. LUPIEN The response to our convenient first-flight-out, last-flight-back schedule from John Wayne Airport t... THOM NULTY The human mind has a primitive ego defense mechanism that negates all realities that produce too muc... DAN BROWN We would have less stress, learn to handle our emotions better and listen to our bodies better. I th... JOE INGELFINGER this is the 21st century and we need to redefine r/evolution. this planet needs a people’s r/evolu... ASSATA SHAKUR If we turn to palaeontology to tell us about our biological evolution it is to prehistory that we lo... JOHN G. D. CLARK When you become aggressive in arguments, you force the other person to become defensive which means ... SAM OWEN I want to stress that at no time Bolivia acts untimely or irresponsibly. EVO MORALES It's bad enough to have to come to work and stress out over heavy work loads without going home to s... ANGELA GREEN Evolution takes its sweet time in its work on our collective consciousness; the lasting leap from fe... ANDREW FORSTHOEFEL Fear is a human emotion that is triggered by a perceived threat. It is a basic survival mechanism th... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA with the average response time in the last two weeks of September hitting two minutes, two seconds. GEORGE ABBOTT All scientists agree that evolution has occurred - that all life comes from a common ancestry, that ... LYNN MARGULIS It is not the strongest or the most intelligent who will survive but those who can best manage chang... LEON C. MEGGINSON We think that the character of the rain response in areas like Florida, Southern California or centr... ANTS LEETMAA Anyways, that very same night there was a fight in the casino on B Deck. Some of the passengers got ... CHRISTINA ENGELA We're not going to make Evolution or any of our other products depend on Mono anytime in the nea... NAT FRIEDMAN I believe that God left certain drugs growing naturally upon our planet to help speed up and facilit... BILL HICKS It's extremely important. It's kind of like the basis for most of biology. It comes up a lot. Even t... JENNIFER WAGNER A stress fracture has been revealed on his left ankle which requires six to seven weeks rest. SALIM ALTAF The number of stressors has multiplied exponentially: traffic, money, success, work/life balance, th... ANDREW J. BERNSTEIN No matter how civilized we are and how much society has curbed violent behavior. Human beings still ... JOE ROGAN Fears of creating new kinds of plagues or of altering human evolution or of irreversibly altering th... PAUL BERG Fatigue is stressful. Kids who aren't getting enough sleep have higher levels of the fight or flight... ANDI BROEM Evolution isn't just a story or a theory on the corner of science, evolution is the fundamental idea... WARREN ALLMON In the last two or three weeks, there has been an increasing restlessness among conservatives, mostl... MICHAEL FRANC Five billion people have played Hamlet. 'To be or not to be.' And how do you do that and fin... ANNETTE BENING I was emotional. I wanted to be taken seriously. I was pretty emo. I was reciting Shakespeare monolo... CONSTANCE WU In our evolution language has been the greatest single contribution to our understanding and misunde... RASHEED OGUNLARU If you define evolution as merely meaning change over time, then I don't see any problem with a ... LEE STROBEL I stress that a flight reconstruction of this size has never happened before in Greece and I'm of th... AKRIVOS TSOLAKIS Its not stress that kills us, it is our reaction to it. HANS SELYE Coolidge is a better example of evolution than either Bryan or Darrow, for he knows when not to talk... WILL ROGERS Every animal has enough brains to tan its own hide. DAVE RISDON I believe that God left certain drugs growing naturally upon our planet to help speed up and facilit... BILL HICKS The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m... ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt... ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank... ANDREW TO The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ... ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate... ANDREW TO We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ... ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices. ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag... ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future. ANDREW TO I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea... ANDREW TO but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short. JANE AUSTEN [...] if truth be told, evolution hasn’t yielded many practical or commercial benefits. Yes, bacte... JERRY A. COYNE Like it or not... that's my story and I can't do that or that each action by itself is a limitation. DEYTH BANGER Every successful person has learned to handle stress well. It's those with a positive outlook on str... DR. WOODSON MERRELL For a hundred years or more the world, our world, has been dying. And not one man, in these last hun... HENRY MILLER The problem when arguing with those who believe in atheistic evolution is that they move goal posts ... RAY COMFORT Gastronomy has to catch up to the evolution in technology. HOMARO CANTU Often and often must he have thought, that, to be or not to be forever, was a question, which must b... JONES VERY We suffered a terrible blow on 11 September 2001. We responded with fear and anger. A fight-or-fligh... YOCHAI BENKLER High and prolonged levels of stress have negative effects particularly on the memory system, IAN ROBERTSON The amygdala in the emotional center sees and hears everything that occurs to us instantaneously and... DANIEL GOLEMAN Hope for the best, ‘never’ prepare for the rest, and treat yourself as present’s guest. ANUROOP TYAGI I soon realised that just because it appeared that way didn't mean it was true. As my thinking chang... RANI BORA, HOW TO TURN STRESS ON ITS HEAD I believe that one of the characteristics of the human race, possibly the one that is
primarily resp... GLEN SEABORG The evolution debate has exposed a fundamental divide in our society, MICHAEL RUSE Evolution has not been proven, ... There are a growing number of scientists who are skeptical about ... LARRY TAYLOR He is in great mental stress and he has to decide about the third test. BOB WOOLMER Man should not try to avoid stress any more than he would shun food, love or exercise. HANS SELYE Man should not try to avoid stress any more than he would shun food, love or exercise. DR. HANS SELYE Especially in the last six or seven months, the process has just come down to a crawl, JAY POWELL Love was not enough to fight or I was not worth to fight. ARZUM UZUN
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