You can do anything, but you can't do everything
If the only tool you have is a hammer, it's hard to eat spaghetti.
Distracting reactions about anything undermine a clear mind about anything else.
A successful executive is one that solves bigger problems than he/she creates.
I think positive stress is actually a good thing. It's sort of the stretch goal "Wow, let me see how much faster I can run" or "Let me see how many more ideas I can generate in five minutes."
There's a lot of reasons why deadline-driven may actually - it's not necessarily a bad thing, it just all it does is it speeds up and makes you a little proactive about decision making.