Cricopharyngeal Muscle Dysfunction Quotes

I think people are frustrated with dysfunction, not just dysfunction in government, but a lot of dysfunction that surrounds them. I get the frustration with drugs in the neighborhood or my kids with big college loans can't find a job. ~ John Kasich

Religion was no cure for dysfunction. ~ Marjorie M. Liu

We all have family dysfunction. It's why we're successful, to fill that hole. ~ Eli Attie

The unchecked striving for more, for endless growth, is a dysfunction and a disease. It is the same dysfunction the cancerous cell manifests, whose only goal is to multiply itself, unaware that it is bringing about its own destruction by destroying the organism of which it is a part. ~ Eckhart Tolle

When you grow up in a home where dysfunction renders you invisible and silent, it can foster deep rage to come to school where this dysfunction is perpetuated by adult after adult who demands that you sit down, be quiet, and listen to what we have to say. ~ Shanna Peeples

AUTHOR'S GOODREADS PAGE: I like dysfunction. Broken people who can't fix each other, but fit together because they're missing the same pieces. ~ Lime Craven

The egoic madness, or dysfunction, becomes enormously amplified by the science and technology we all have developed. ~ Eckhart Tolle

I've been the queen of dysfunction and made every mistake one can make. ~ Janice Dickinson

What creates a writer is huge, psychological dysfunction. ~ Kathy Lette

Could we chose to amend the rules of the game to create a society that values people over profits, life over pollution, mutual care over guns and prisons, vision over dysfunction? ~ Vicki Robin

Government by three men in a room has turned New York State into a national symbol of governmental dysfunction. Enough is enough! ~ Michael Bloomberg

Don't medicate dysfunction with spending. No amount of stuff will get rid of guilt. ~ Dave Ramsey

Can true function arise from basic dysfunction? ~ Ursula K. Le Guin

Pick a dysfunction and it's a family problem. ~ Robert Downey, Jr.

Bob Dole is going to be appearing in a Pepsi commercial with Britney Spears. Yeah, apparently Dole says that if this doesn't cure his erectile dysfunction, nothing will. ~ Conan O'Brien

Since muscular contractions are usually more or less regularly alternated with relaxations, the system of valves makes of the veins of every muscle a very effective pump, capable of maintaining a low pressure in the muscle capillaries. ~ August Krogh

When your goal is to put on muscle mass you must increase your calorie intake as you increase the activity level being given to the muscle. ~ Lee Haney

Worry is to human beings ... what a condom is to a man with erectile dysfunction. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Science and technology have amplified the effects of the dysfunction of the human mind in its unawakened state to such a degree that humanity, and probably the planet, would not survive for another hundred years if human consciousness remains unchanged. ~ Eckhart Tolle

The dysfunction was not the character of one person, it was the split of family by divorce, with the ripples felt for eternity by bloodline. ~ Amber Garibay

A woman in Charlotte approached me and said that she's tired of the dysfunction in my novels. I told her I was sorry, but that is how the world has presented itself to me throughout my life. ~ Pat Conroy

The pervasive brutality in current fiction - the death, disease, dysfunction, depression, dismemberment, drug addiction, dementia, and dreary little dramas of domestic discord - is an obvious example of how language in exploitative, cynical or simply neurotic hands can add to the weariness, the darkness in the world. ~ Tom Robbins

I know I'm not supposed to like muscle cars, but I like muscle cars. ~ Joe Biden

Creativity is a muscle, and when we flex the muscle of our imagination, we find inspiration. ~ Inbar Shahar

COVID-19 is dividing the population into those with robust immune systems and those that have immune dysfunction. ~ Steven Magee

I don't want to be all power and muscle. ~ Shawn Johnson

The mind is a muscle. ~ Robert Wilson

Humanity is now faced with a stark choice: Evolve or die. ... If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction. ~ Eckhart Tolle

What I search for continuously in my art is adequate language, language I hope can stand beyond any particular occasion. What I'm finding is that in our increasingly dysfunctional U.S. society, marvelous poetry is being written - out of and amid the dysfunction. ~ Adrienne Rich

I felt it [Shakespeare's Coriolanus] is sort of an examination of our dysfunction as a nationalistic, tribal entities. I think the world is rocking and cracking open in weird and worrying places. And I think Coriolanus, the play, reflected that. ~ Ralph Fiennes

The labourer's muscle is that of a cart-horse, his motions lumbering and slow. ~ Richard Jefferies

It's amazing what a bit of soot and shaving can do for muscle definition, honestly. ~ Joe Dempsie

A muscle becomes weak if it is not used. To become strong, a muscle must push against something. ~ Billy Graham

Use creativity and storytelling as your main muscle instead of smartness. ~ Astro Teller

Faith is the most unexercised muscle known to man. ~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

The next dysfunction of a team is the lack of commitment and the failure to buy in to decisions." She wrote the dysfunction above the previous one. "And the evidence of this one is ambiguity, " which she wrote next to it. Nick was reengaging now. ~ Jossey-Bass

I love American muscle cars. It's my thing. ~ Brody Jenner

Most female models don't have any muscle mass. ~ Andrej Pejic

Freedom is a muscle ... you have to exercise it. ~ Roy Scheider

I've done romantic comedy, and I don't get to flex that muscle often. ~ Hill Harper

When I was growing up, I cheered and danced and ran and stuff like that. I'm probably thinner now than I was in high school. I had a lot of muscle - a lot of muscle in high school. ~ Ashley Greene

Don't worry about being nervous. A lot of vampires have trouble with this from time to time. It happens to everyone."
"If I was a forty-year-old man suffering from erectile dysfunction, that would be a great comfort to me, thanks. ~ Molly Harper

The imagination is a muscle. If it is not exercised, it atrophies. ~ Neil Gaiman

When you are present, you can allow the mind to be as it is without getting entangled in it. The mind itself is a wonderful tool. Dysfunction sets in when you seek your self in it and mistake it for who you are. ~ Eckhart Tolle

Muscle and water is critical in burning fat. ~ Lee Haney

Don't misunderstand. I am not here bashing people who are homosexuals, who are lesbians, who are bisexual, who are transgender. We need to have profound compassion for people who are dealing with the very real issue of sexual dysfunction in their life and sexual identity disorders. ~ Michele Bachmann

Instead, we have found ourselves gasping for air in a sea of corruption, dysfunction, environmental degradation, waste, disenchantment and inequality - and the harder we compete, the more unequal we become. ~ Margaret Heffernan

Our military doesn't defend our American people. Our military is the strong-arm muscle of corporations. ~ Jesse Ventura

Make time to write every day. The writing muscle is like any other muscle; the more you exercise it, the stronger it becomes. ~ Judy Penz Sheluk

There's no particular relationship between spending and educational results. Most education spending is actually on salaries, and that's allocated according to political muscle. ~ Peter Brimelow

We all have the muscle of creativity in our minds, but for it to consistently give great results it needs daily exercise. ~ Yusuf A. Leinge

Most of us have just learned to exercise our survival muscle. It's time to build our victory muscle. ~ Iyanla Vanzant

Prayer is the slender nerve that moves the muscle of omnipotence. ~ Martin Farquhar Tupper

I don't know what cancer did to me but I put on probably 10 pounds of muscle and got a lot stronger in the weight room and during our dry-land stuff. ~ Eric Shanteau

People can't live with themselves much longer. The planet cannot live with humans much longer! We have the weaponry, destruction of the planet, pollution, destruction of forests, countless manifestations of humans using their intelligence in the service of the dysfunction, the madness. It's a strange juxtaposition. Humans are intelligent, but if you look at history or even watch TV, they're also incredibly stupid. ~ Eckhart Tolle

My favorite muscle to train is TRICEPS! Always has been my stongest muscle group as well. ~ Scott Herman

I had several teachers who inspired me, in both the public school system and the Upward Bound program. I needed several, because I lived in such abject poverty and dysfunction. And they're still in my life today, because I consider them to be friends, actually. ~ Viola Davis

Relationships are like muscle tissue. The more they're engaged, the stronger they become. The ability to build relationships and flex that emotional connection muscle is what makes social so valuable. ~ Ted Rubin

That a strong stimulus to such an afferent nerve, exciting most or all of its fibres, should in regard to a given muscle develop inhibition and excitation concurrently is not surprising. ~ Charles Scott Sherrington

She is a woman of muscle twisted around bone. ~ Veronica Roth

I wanted to imbue Ziggy with real flesh and blood and muscle, and it was imperative that I find Ziggy and be him. ~ David Bowie

I look at myself and pick out the things I don't like. No matter how much I work out, I never get muscle tone in my butt and hip area. ~ Tyra Banks

Circumstances that weigh you down and obstacles that block your path are God's way of building spiritual muscle. Shortcuts and escape routes won't build the stamina you'll need to complete the course. ~ Deb Brammer

If dysfunction means that a family doesn't work, then every family ambles into some arena in which that happens, where relationships get strained or even break down entirely. We fail each other or disappoint each other. That goes for parents, siblings, kids, marriage partners - the whole enchilada. ~ Mary Karr

Knowledge is only a rumor until it is in the muscle. ~ Papua New Guinea Proverb

I'm already a tiny person, so now I'm trying to go to the gym to add muscle. I need it! ~ Alexa Vega

When a trigger point is present, numerous sarcomeres are contracted into a small, thickened area and the rest of the sarcomeres in the myofibril are stretched thin. Several of these contractures in the same area are probably what we feel as a "knot" or "tight band" in the muscle. These muscle fibers are not available for use because they are already contracted, which is why you cannot condition (strengthen) a muscle that contains trigger points. ~ Valerie Delaune

I could never focus on my upper body as a skater, so I'm enjoying having symmetrical upper and lower body muscle. ~ Apolo Ohno

With all the hybrid stuff and things like that, I think that's a fabulous direction to go with cars in that sense. As someone who grew up around muscle cars, I'll never not be able to not love a muscle car. Not that I don't care about the environment, that's not it. But I adore muscle cars. ~ Michael Symon

I'm 190 pounds of rock hard muscle, underneath 40 pounds of sturdy protective fat. ~ John Swartzwelder

Shame infuses women's most intimate experiences, from menstruation to sex. Women who internalize objectified ideas about their bodies often feel intense disgust with bodily functions – even pregnancy. Objectification and self-surveillance also put women at higher risk of sexual dysfunction. Rather than enjoying sex or engaging with their partners to ensure sexual satisfaction, women, distracted by what their bodies smell, feel, and look like, become unable to think about their own pleasure. ~ Soraya Chemaly

They thought that athletes that worked out with my system wouldn't be able to throw a ball because they'd be too muscle bound. Those are the misconceptions I had to go through for about 40 years. ~ Jack LaLanne

Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind. ~ Paavo Nurmi

Of course, she should have known better than to go out with one of the muscle heads from her gym...It was a shame that a brain was optional equipment on his model, and he had not paid for the upgrade. ~ Julia Mills

Self-compassion is like a muscle. The more we practice flexing it, especially when life doesn't go exactly according to plan (a frequent scenario for most of us), the stronger and more resilient our compassion muscle becomes. ~ Sharon Salzberg

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It takes strength to move between opposites, between safety and danger, steeping and swimming, 'x' and 'y,' love and love. ~ Randon Billings Noble

No mean person is mean all the time. The whole point of being mean is to fluctuate so that you can hold out the hope for someone. So someone will hold out the hope that they're gonna catch you on the sunny side or that you're gonna be nice this time. The tyranny is inconsistency. Somebody thats consistently mean is something that is pretty easy to sort out. The reality is that the meanest people can be wonderful sometimes. That's the whole point of meanness because otherwise it's too obvious. It's the niceness that gets you trapped in the dysfunction. That is the problem and so the fact that you have this belief that there is hope in the relationship is foundational to the dysfunction. ~ Stefan Molyneux

Each time you put the muscle back on, your body has that muscle memory and wants to hang on to it, so you just have be well underfed and over-trained to get it off and it's exhausting. ~ Chris Hemsworth

One of the things I learned is that you've got to deal with the underlying social problems if you want to have an impact on crime - that it's not a coincidence that you see the greatest amount of violent crime where you see the greatest amount of social dysfunction. ~ Eric Holder

They say you only go around once, but with a muscle car you can go around two or three times. ~ Tim Allen

If you want to put out a million CDs and sell them and get them played on the radio, and even videos, or whatever, if that still exists, that kind of muscle can only come from a label like Columbia. ~ Jack White

A number of holistic and complementary medical doctors in the US, from general practitioners to psychiatrists, are using maca with a variety of patients. Both men and women report a significant boost in libido. And a number of men who have suffered from erectile dysfunction have improved, as a result of taking maca. ~ Chris Kilham

I spent a lot of time reading blogs by mothers who had children with varying degrees of neural dysfunction, from schizophrenia to all sorts of different issues. And honestly, I don't think it's different for anybody. There's no right way to make sure your child will be emotionally and mentally healthier. It's just frustrating. ~ Vera Farmiga

A family is a social system and if that system is dysfunctional, the ramifications for the children growing up within it are grave. In what is known as generational drug addiction, the adult children of drug addicts and alcoholics are quietly suffering all over the world. By the time the children have grown up, dysfunction has been deeply ingrained in mind, body and brain. ~ Christopher Dines

Any little touch a defender can make on me when I'm in the air literally moves me. On the ground, I can use my muscle, but in the air, it's harder to fight that off. ~ Abby Wambach

That's my dysfunction in the hallway. ~ Katie McGarry

I'm heavier, but with muscle rather than flab. It's a massive difference. It means I don't get as tired sometimes and it means that I'm hitting the ball a lot farther, about 15 yards more with my driver. ~ Lee Westwood

Some strip joints called themselves "gentlemen's clubs," and businessmen wore suits and acted above the riffraff. There was no such pretense at the Eager Beaver. This was a place where tattoos outnumbered teeth. People fought. The bouncers had bigger guts than muscle because muscle was show and these guys would seriously kick your ass. Olivia ~ Harlan Coben

We put the fun in dysfunction. ~ William Lashner

Thomas had a younger sister, Ester, who was a facsimile of the womanizer brother, who had behaviors that mirrored her brother's treatment of women, for she treated men the same way, for the same reasons. The younger sister had raised her sons with a hurtful echo in their minds that said 'men are no good', and because they heard it so much from their mother's mouth, I feared that they would one day believe it to be true. ~ Sara Niles

My mother, whom I love dearly, has continually revised my life story within the context of a complicated family history that includes more than the usual share of divorce, step-children, dysfunction, and obfuscation. I've spent most of my adult life attempting to deconstruct that history and separate fact from fiction. ~ Melissa Gilbert

Being happy has -huge- advantages. One, you smile more. Training of facial muscles. Automatic! But did you know that the risible muscle, the one that gets the biggest benefit, is part of the stomach muscles? Yes. Stomach training. Up and down. ~ René Friedrich

Essentially, your voice is an instrument; it's a muscle, and you have to treat it like a muscle, and so you have to work it. ~ Kevin Spacey

My family may be dysfunctional, but I think it's pretty functional in its dysfunction. ~ Amanda Torrey

He has a reptile dysfunction. ~ Jodi Picoult

Getting sucked into other people's ego dysfunction & darkness robs you of your own light. ~ Oprah Winfrey

Observation is like a muscle. It grows stronger with use and atrophies without use. Exercise your observation muscle and you will become a more powerful decoder of the world around you. ~ Joe Navarro

"What is normal?" really becomes the question. What is normal, and how are we fooled into thinking it's something other than what we're doing at any given time. Every family has either a drug addict or an alcoholic or some sort of dysfunction that the family is dealing with. And I think the grace of this family is that they actually could be that far out there but also be forgiving, and be really human, and be human in front of each other without much shame. ~ Mark Ruffalo

When I found out I had to take off my shirt in 'Teen' movie, I panicked and hit the gym. I was like, 'It's going to be on film, documented, for my children to see. I can't be 140 pounds. I need to put on a little bit of muscle.' ~ Chris Evans

I never focus on contraction. I'm focusing on my muscle. I'm not focusing on a certain style of lifting or contracting. I'm just trying to get the weight up. I'm trying to build muscle. ~ Ronnie Coleman