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“No one has yet added up all the heavy, stress-filled workdays as well as the hundreds, perhaps thousands, of lives that are wasted to produce the world's amusements. It is for this reason that "amusements" are not so amusing.”

World Wells Reason Produce Stress Filled Heavy Amusement Amusing

Author:Leo Tolstoy

“The speeding toy cars produce in the viewer the stress of living in a dynamic, active and bustling 21st-century city.”

Cities Century Car Produce Stress Active Toys 21st Century Viewers Speeding

Author:Chris Burden

“The pressure we put on ourselves to produce this perfect... operatic... version of ourselves really puts an inordinate amount of stress and tension on us.”

Perfect Produce Amount Stress Pressure Versions Tension

Author:Shefali Tsabary

“The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results.”

Source: Unlimited Power: The New Science of Personal Achievement

“Activating oxygen can produce compounds called radicals that put oxidative stress on cells. Such stress could ultimately lead to cancer and other diseases.”

Produce Disease Stress Cancer Radical Cells Oxygen Compounds Chemical Compounds

Author:John Simon

“Everything you’ve told yourself you ought to do, your mind thinks you should do right now. Frankly, as soon add you have two things to do stored in your RAM, you’ve generated personal failure, because you can’t do two things at the same time. This produces an all-pervasive stress factor whose source can’t be pin-pointed.”

Thinking Should Mind Two Produce Source Ought Right Now Stress Add Productivity Factors Things To Do Two Things Pins Rams Personal Failure

Author:David Allen

“The human mind has a primitive ego defense mechanism that negates all realities that produce too much stress for the brain to handle. It’s called Denial.”

Mind Humans Reality Brain Too Much Produce Ego Stress Defense Handle Denial Human Mind Mechanism Primitive Inferno Defense Mechanisms

Book:Inferno: Special Illustrated Edition (Enhanced): Featuring Robert Langdon

Source: Inferno: Special Illustrated Edition (Enhanced): Featuring Robert Langdon

“Willpower can produce short-term change, but it creates constant internal stress because you haven't dealt with the root cause.”

Causes Term Havens Produce Roots Stress Constant Internals Willpower Short Term Overcoming Adversity Root Cause

Book:The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For?

Source: The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For?

“There is simply no other exercise, and certainly no machine, that produces the level of central nervous system activity, improved balance and coordination, skeletal loading and bone density enhancement, muscular stimulation and growth, connective tissue stress and strength, psychological demand and toughness, and overall systemic conditioning than the correctly performed full squat.”

“Crying, that is, sobbing is the earliest and deepest way to release tension. Infants can cry almost from the moment of birth, and do so easily following every stress that produces a state of tension in the body... Human beings are the only creatures who can react in this way to stress and tension. Most probably, they are the only ones who need this form of release.”

Way Needs Humans States Moments Body Form Human Beings Cry Produce Birth Creatures Stress Following Release Tension Infant Sobbing

Book:Narcissism: Denial of the True Self

Source: Narcissism: Denial of the True Self

“What basically happens is your hormones get out of whack. Because of the stress in your life your body says, 'I need more hormones.' So, your hormones are trying to produce and produce and produce, and it's even more stressful and it is this wicked cycle.”

Needs Trying Body Happens Produce Stress Your Body Wicked Cycles Stressful Hormones

Author:Marie Osmond