If work is no antidote to death, nor a denial of it, death is a powerful stimulus to work. Get done what… — Donald Hall Copy Share Image
Physical pain is not a simple affair of an impulse, travelling at a fixed rate along a nerve. It is the resultant… — Rene Leriche Copy Share Image
Let us assume that entertainment is the sole end of reading; even so I think you would hold that no mental employment… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
“For every dollar that is spent on the (boondoggle) bridge a dollar will be taken away from taxpayers. If the bridge costs… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Great indeed is Fear; but it is not, as our military enthusiasts believe and try to make us believe, the only stimulus… — William James Copy Share Image
There are probably very few people who have not at some time of their lives had some quality of genius. If they… — Otto Weininger Copy Share Image
In response to the recession, the Obama administration chose to emphasize costly, short-term fixes - ineffective stimulus programs, myriad housing programs that… — Glenn Hubbard Copy Share Image
Through systematic terror, through indoctrination, through systematic manipulation of stimulus, reward, and punishment, we can today break man and convert him into… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Every characteristic absence of spirituality, every piece of common vulgarity, is due to an inability to resist a stimulus - you have… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
If we discovered that, you know, space aliens were planning to attack and we needed a massive buildup to counter the space… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
Woven through Timothy J. Clark’s paintings are unique combinations of visual and emotional stimuli.His sense of space, light and composition combine to… — Will Barnet Copy Share Image
Washington's insatiable desire to spend our children's inheritance on failed stimulus plans and other misguided economic theories have given record debt and… — Rick Perry Copy Share Image
President Obama is traveling around the country, proposing a stimulus bill that has already failed once. Instead of having an honest discussion… — Alveda King Copy Share Image
Television for a child creates such a high bar of stimulus that nothing else competes. A beautiful day is absolute crap to… — Louis C. K Copy Share Image
Obama sounded like Al Gore on global warming. The more the case for man-made warming falls apart, the more hysterical Gore gets… — Fred Barnes Copy Share Image
Canada is in budgetary deficit now only because of the recession, only because of stimulus measures, and we will come out of… — Stephen Harper Copy Share Image
leaders seem to have a high tolerance for ambiguity. Recognizing that the brain does not work in a completely linear fashion, leaders… — Marlene Caroselli Copy Share Image
I believe, unlike people that are totally free-market, laissez-faire fundamentalists, that there is an important role that the government can play -… — Nouriel Roubini Copy Share Image
The glory of the disposition that stops to consider stimuli rather than rushing to engage with them is its long association with… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
What happened during the minutes before? That's the realm of sensory stimuli of the nervous system. — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
One of the reasons why this country undertook military action in Iraq was that there are quite a few problems here, and… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
When you talk about the stimulus package, you can ask 1,000 different people and they - you will have 1,000 different opinions… — Arnold Schwarzenegger Copy Share Image
The approbation of others is a stimulus of which one must sometimes be wary. The feeling of one's own strength makes one… — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
Giving someone a one-time stimulus check, or a one-time tax cut that expires doesn't allow the predictability that business needs. — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
