"They make you realize how much energy we burn up every day on unproductive activities like jealousy and anger," Mr. Turak said last week from Israel, where he is conducting some business before visiting the holy sites.
In studies for my book Confidence, I found that anger and blame are unproductive emotions.
Anger and blame are unproductive emotions that tie up energy in destroying rather than creating.
Holding on to unproductive emotions -- such as guilt, shame, fear and anger -- is fertile ground for even more dysfunctional feelings to grow, such as regret, pain, obsessive thinking, and bitterness.
Cuervo's expressions of anger are, if taken at face value, unproductive.
Employment counselors say it is easy for the newly jobless to get sucked into a cycle of denial, anger and depression, their days consumed by television and unproductive Internet searches.
The displays of American anger may be personally satisfying, but they are certainly unproductive, and it is up to the U.S. to heal the widening breach.
Mao continued to read in his free time, often staying up late at night in his bedroom to read by candle light; this angered his father, who saw recreational reading as an unproductive pursuit.
This tendency can often lead to anger, insecurity, and unnecessary emotion that makes conflict painful, relationship threatening and unproductive.
It becomes very unproductive".
