Stimuli Quotes

56 Stimuli quotes by 51 unique authors

Apathy is one of the characteristic responses of any living organism when it is subjected to stimuli too intense or too complicated to cope with.… — John Dos Passos
The Procrastinator has the opposite problem. He can’t selectively focus his attention and might endure frequent accusations about his laziness. In truth, he’s so distracted… — Kate Kelly
The mind never need stop growing. Indeed, one of the few experiences which never pall is the experience of watching one's own mind and how… — Gilbert Highet
Unable to create a meaningful life for itself, the personality takes its own revenge: from the lower depths comes a regressive form of spontaneity: raw… — Lewis Mumford
People try to look for deep meanings in my work. I want to say, 'They're just cartoons, folks. You laugh or you don't.' Gee, I… — Gary Larson
As far as stimulus from the visual arts specifically, there is today in most of us a visual appetite that is hungry, that is acutely… — John Walford
The best thing you can do when you're not feeling funny is go out and get more stimuli from the world, get out and walk… — Rob Delaney
The danger for a comedian on Twitter is the same danger that any civilian faces: sometimes you gotta put that phone down and go live… — Rob Delaney
The glory of the disposition that stops to consider stimuli rather than rushing to engage with them is its long association with intellectual and artistic… — Susan Cain
The artist yields often to the stimuli of materials that will transmit his spirit. — Odilon Redon
These various habits of thought, or habitual expressions of life, are all phases of the single life sequence of the individual; therefore a habit formed… — Thorstein Veblen
Man, like the universe, is a machine. Nothing enters our minds or determines our actions which is not directly or indirectly a response to stimuli… — Nikola Tesla
Cadence Encounter Conformal Custom provides a quicker turnaround as the result of its exhaustive verification without the use of stimuli, .. Cadence continues to invest… — Michael Chang
Fill you mind with the meaningless stimuli of a world preoccupied with meaningless things, and it will not be easy to feel peace in your… — Marianne Williamson
If you look at the most meaningful science fiction, it didn't come from watching other films. We seem to be in a place now where… — Neill Blomkamp
For time flows on, and if it did not, it would be a bad prospect for those who do not sit at golden tables. Methods… — Bertolt Brecht
Television, radio, and all the sources of amusement and information that surround us in our daily lives are also artificial props. They can give us… — Mortimer Adler
We are taught that the body is an ignorant animal intelligence dwells only in the head. But the body is smart. It does not discern… — Gloria E. AnzaldÃºa
The brain of a person in love will show activity in the amygdala, which is associated with gut feelings, and in the nucleus accumbens, an… — Jodi Picoult
... the greatest menace to our capacity for contemplation is the incessant fabrication of tawdry empty stimuli which kill the receptivity of the soul. — Josef Pieper
The more I think about myself, the more I'm persuaded that, as a person, I really don't exist. That is one of the reasons why… — Christopher Isherwood
It seemed to me that the human beings I met reacted pretty much the same to the same stimuli. Different idioms,yes. Circumstances and conditions having… — Zora Neale Hurston
Thus the man who is responsive to artistic stimuli reacts to the reality of dreams as does the philosopher to the reality of existence; he… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Consciousness, much like our feelings, is based on a representation of the body and how it changes when reacting to certain stimuli. Self-image would be… — Antonio Damasio
J.K. Rowling is a talented storyteller, but she has also used the style and technique of modern television and cinema media, which seizes the imagination… — Michael O'Brien

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