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Quotes About Self-induced

The great majority of the things we now make ourselves panicked about are self-created 'dangers' that exist almost entirely in our own imaginations.
~ Albert Ellis
The gradual decline of a society is often a self-induced process of trying to meet ever-expanding appetites, rather than a physical inability to produce past levels of food and fuel, or to maintain adequate defense.
~ Victor Davis Hanson
Vice, in the Objectivist view, is not a rewarding policy; it is unconsciousness-willful, self-induced unconsciousness, while one continues to move around and function. To a conscious organism no course of behavior can be more dangerous.
~ Leonard Peikoff
All stress is self-induced, he reminded himself. It's in your mind. You don't need it. Lay it down. Panic is contagious. But so is calm. Stay calm. Do your work. Slow is
~ Joel C. Rosenberg
My skin is broken out from subconscious anxiety and tension, self-induced. Nothing is more difficult than lashing a vagrant mind suddenly into long self-imposed stints of concentration.
~ Sylvia Plath
It's not hard for me to be funny in front of people, but most of that is just horrified nerves taking the form of what makes people laugh, and afterwards I'd always feel dreadfully depressed, kind of self-induced bi-polar disorder.
~ Lynda Barry
The politics of inevitability is a self-induced intellectual coma. So
~ Timothy Snyder
The politics of inevitability is a self-induced intellectual coma.
~ Timothy Snyder
Procrastination is self-induced torture, often void of physical agony. It still hurts.
~ Unknown