Stimulus Quotes

239 quotes by 195 authors

Hence the strong attraction which magic and science alike have exercised on the human mind; hence the powerful stimulus that both have given to the… — James G. Frazer
The element of discovery is very important. I don't repeat myself well. I want and need that stimulus of walking forward from one new world… — Margaret Bourke-White
Let us assume that entertainment is the sole end of reading; even so I think you would hold that no mental employment is so broadening… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Human freedom involves our capacity to pause between the stimulus and response and, in that pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish… — Rollo May
Role models who push us to exceed our limits, physical training that removes our spare tires, and risks that expand our sphere of comfortable action… — Tim Ferriss
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
To learn to see- to accustom the eye to calmness, to patience, and to allow things to come up to it; to defer judgment, and… — Friedrich Nietzsche
... 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
There are, of course, inherent tendencies to repetition in music itself. Our poetry, our ballads, our songs are full of repetition; nursery rhymes and the… — Oliver Sacks
The word book acted as a transient stimulus — Charlotte Bronte
The basic stimulus to the intelligence is doubt, a feeling that the meaning of an experience is not self-evident. — Wystan Hugh Auden
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
Worry is the product of feverish imagination working under the stimulus of desires... It is a necessary resultant of attachment to the past or to… — Meher Baba
I never asked for stimulus. — Paul Ryan
It is easy enough to arouse in a listener a desire for what is honorable; for in every one of us nature has laid the… — Seneca the Younger
The love of glory gives an immense stimulus. — Unknown Author
Smell was our first sense. It is even possible that being able to smell was the stimulus that took a primitive fish and turned a… — Lyall Watson
Our earliest evidence of government, in the ruins of Babylon and Egypt, shows nothing but ziggurats and pyramids of wasted taxpayer money, the TARP funds… — P.J. O'Rourke

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