Escape Quote by A.W. Tozer

What is the life of man! Is it not to shift from side to side? From sorrow to sorrow? To button up one cause…

— Laurence Sterne

Sensorial perception, for example, certainly occurs with greater or less accuracy according to the degree of interest; it is constantly given other directions by…

— Hermann Ebbinghaus

Television, radio, and all the sources of amusement and information that surround us in our daily lives are also artificial props. They can give…

— Anonymous

Perception is less of a recording system and more of a protection system against external stimuli.

— Sigmund Freud

In pursuing my fervent goal of relating external stimuli to reports about internal-neural change, we were, paradoxically enough, following the most orthodox tradition in…

— Timothy Leary

Contractile movements arise, sometimes at the instigation of external stimuli but sometimes also in the absence of any apparent external influence.

— Wilhelm Wundt

“Programming is the act of installing internal, pre-established reactions to external stimuli so that a person will automatically react in a predetermined manner to…

— Arauna Morgan

Interestingly enough, not all feelings result from the body's reaction to external stimuli. Sometimes changes are purely simulated in the brain maps.

— Antonio Damasio

As for solitude, I cannot understand how certain people seek to lay claim to intellectual stature, nobility of soul and strength of character, yet…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Any other vexations to report?" he asks. "I love the word 'vexations.'" "It's the 'x.' Nice to jump off a 'v' and bite into…

— Michael Cunningham

It was not in her nature, however, to increase her vexations by dwelling on them. She was confident of having performed her duty, and…

— Jane Austen

“vexation, yet filled with unconscious regret for the terrible unknown things that might have, but had not, happened (23)”

— Émile Zola