Gretchen Rubin

Spending hours stressed out in front of the TV isn't the same as volunteering or donating. Feeling a high level of personal distress makes people feel agitated and emotionally drained, to the point that they lack the energy or detachment to help - or the energy to manage themselves.

American Author

Liev Schreiber

You'd think true masculinity was just calm and collected happiness. So alpha male that it needs not or worries not. But typically masculine characters are always fighting, and most violence comes from some agitated level of fear and anxiety.

American Actor

Colin Kaepernick

Most people don't want to change. They're comfortable and set in their ways. But in order to change, you have to be able to agitate people at times. And I think that's something that's very necessary for us to improve as a country.

American Athlete

Henepola Gunaratana

By silencing the mind, we can experience real peace. As long as various kinds of thoughts agitate the brain, we don't experience 100 percent peace.

Sri Lankan Clergyman

Emmerson Mnangagwa

We must allow people to agitate for whatever they want. They must be allowed to campaign for their views.

Zimbabwean Politician

Sridevi

I have never felt the need to get agitated or hyper about anything in life.

Indian Actress

Vishnu Vishal

I keep myself away from negativity because it leaves me agitated.

Indian Actor

Kylie Bunbury

I get very agitated if I don't get something right away.

Canadian Actress

William Cobbett

I defy you to agitate any fellow with a full stomach.

English Politician

Susan B. Anthony

Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry.

American Activist

Used to emphasize strong feelings, especially of anxiety or nervousness.

Emotional Weight

Can describe slight annoyance to severe distress.

Intensity Varies

Often suggests a sudden or unexpected disturbance of peace or calm.

Quick Change

Can imply organized group effort for a cause, not just individual action.

Collective Action

Suggests ongoing, determined activity rather than a one-time event.

Persistent Effort

Often associated with striving for improvements or rectifying injustices.

Positive Change

In chemistry, the action is vigorous and thorough, not soft or slow.

Not Gentle

Refers to causing movement in a substance, crucial in scientific procedures.

Physical Process

 attacked. And there's a lot of more controversial videos like this of people kind of deliberately agitating animals like this bearded dragon, but snakes as well, so that they're, you know, in striking position, trying to attack the people around. There's obviously a massive appetite. There's millions and millions and millions of videos of reptiles

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 plate the way we live our everyday lives a Learning plate what we learn what we teach our kids in school and what we want new skills we share amongst ourselves and business what what we do with the pound in our pocket and which businesses we choose to support now let's imagine those plates agitated with community actions around food if we

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 and business, what we do with the pound in our pocket and which businesses we choose to support. Now, let's imagine those plates agitated with community actions around food. If we start one of those community plates spinning, that's really great, that really starts to empower people,

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 he rarely spoke of his experiences in waking life. But at night I would hear him shouting obscenities from his room down the hall. And during the day I would announce myself as I entered the room, careful not to startle or agitate him. He lived out the remainder of his days

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 So as we move forward in our lives and work and we have more power and influence, let's change the nature of power by dismantling some of the barriers that remain for those who follow by advocating and agitating for fairer and truer and more equal representation

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 calm the inmates but something unexpected happened something that we weren't expecting the officers were able to cultivate the ability to observe the inmates before they got agitated and they offered them extra time in what they called the Blue Room the room of

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 Now in a world of cheap, proliferating robotic weapons, borders would offer very little protection to critics of distant governments or trans-national criminal organizations. Popular movements agitating for change

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 really affected me I had nightmares had headaches pains in my neck pressure on my chest and my breathing was agitated psychiatrists couldn't help in desperation dr. release went to the mountains hoping

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 And perhaps it's only logical that emotions would be linked to an organ characterized by its agitated movement. But what is this link? Is it real or purely metaphorical? As a heart specialist,

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 making it one of the most potent poisons of any animal in the world. Other jellyfish superpowers are less lethal. One species of jellyfish glows green when it's agitated,

Agitate

To make someone feel worried or upset.

To argue or campaign for something important.

To shake or stir something, usually a liquid, in a rough, fast, or violent way.

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