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• Advertising tries to stimulate our sensuous desires, converting luxuries into necessities, but it only intensifies man's inner misery. The business world is bent on creating hungers which its wares never satisfy, and thus it adds to the frustrations and broken minds of our times.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Frustration, Men, Luxury

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• A lot of, a big problems that people have nowadays is that they can't stand moments of no stimulation in their life so they're constantly lurking, looking for entertainment, video games.

  Robert Greene

  Games, People, Video

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• Advice to a new writer: There are no rules in this profession. Do what is good for you. Read books and watch films that stimulate your writing. In your writing, go where the pain is; go where the pleasure is; go where the excitement is. Believe in your own original approach, voice, characters, story. Ignore critics. Have nerve. Be stubborn.

  Anne Rice

  Pain, Book, Believe

  FaceBook post by Anne Rice from Aug 22, 2014

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• Avoid head trash. Don't be a garbage can for anything that does not feed your intellect, stimulate your imagination, or make you a more compassionate peaceful person. Refuse to open your mind to other people's trash. Tune out anything that promotes conflict or controversy. This can infect you with a mind virus of cynicism or defeat, and you won't even know it!

  Les Brown

  Garbage Cans, Imagination, People

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• I am deeply moved when I write. I get turned on by it. I've never used any drugs for stimulation. I don't use words loosely. When I'm working and the right word comes, there is an answering resonance within me. There is also a hardness of intention that goes with it. There is no idleness in it.

  Saul Bellow

  Writing, Drug, Use

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• As long as experiencing your optimal level of good stress doesn't damage others, it's hard to objectively define where normal enjoyment of stimulation becomes adrenaline junkiehood.

  Robert M. Sapolsky

  Stress, Long, Levels

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• Moral stimulation is good but moral complacency is the most dangerous habit of mind we can develop, and that danger is serious and ever-present.

  Joseph Grew

  Mind, Complacency, Serious

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• The lore of our fathers is a fabric of sentences. In our hands it develops and changes, through more or less arbitrary and deliberate revisions and additions of our own, more or less directly occasioned by the continuing stimulation of our sense organs. It is a pale gray lore, black with fact and white with convention. But I have found no substantial reasons for concluding that there are any quite black threads in it, or any white ones.

  Willard Van Orman Quine

  Father, White, Hands

  Willard Van Orman Quine (1976). “The Ways of Paradox, and Other Essays”, p.132, Harvard University Press

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• It is the cult of self that is killing the United States. This cult has within it the classic traits of psychopaths: superficial charm, grandiosity and self-importance ; a need for constant stimulation; a penchant for lying, deception and manipulation; and the incapacity for remorse or guilt.

  Chris Hedges

  Lying, Self, Deception

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• Economic stimulation that works through the increased outlays to the affluent has, inevitably, an aspect of soundness and sanity that is lacking in expenditure on behalf of the undeserving poor.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Sanity, Economic, Poor

  John Kenneth Galbraith (2017). “Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went”, p.270, Princeton University Press

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• I got a dog-training book. It says Grendel needs mental stimulation, so I tried to train him, but I think he must be retarded.

  Ilona Andrews

  Dog, Book, Thinking

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• In a way, education by its nature favours the extrovert because you are taking kids and putting them into a big classroom, which is automatically going to be a high-stimulation environment. Probably the best way of teaching in general is one on one, but that's not something everyone can afford.

  Susan Cain

  Teaching, Kids, Favour

  "Susan Cain: 'Society has a cultural bias towards extroverts'". Interview with Ian Tucker, www.theguardian.com. March 31, 2012.

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• I mean, evil and boredom. Evil and ennui. Evil and the lack of stimulation. Evil and sluggish blood.

  Gregory Maguire

  Mean, Blood, Evil

  Gregory Maguire (2013). “The Wicked Years Complete Collection: Wicked, Son of a Witch, A Lion Among Men, and Out of Oz”, p.82, Harper Collins

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• There is simply no other exercise, and certainly no machine, that produces the level ofmuscular stimulation and growththan the correctly performed full squat.

  Mark Rippetoe

  Exercise, Machines, Levels

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• I approach my music-making as an art-form--something pure from the spirit to which I can add dynamics and marketable reality. Music is genuine and healthy and the stimulation I get from molding it and adding dynamics is like nothing else on earth.

  Brian Wilson

  Art, Reality, Healthy

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• The serious reader in the age of technology is a rebel by definition: a protester without a placard, a Luddite without hammer or bludgeon. She reads on planes to picket the antiseptic nature of modern travel, on commuter trains to insist on individualism in the midst of the herd, in hotel rooms to boycott the circumstances that separate her from her usual sources of comfort and stimulation, during office breaks to escape from the banal conversation of office mates, and at home to revolt against the pervasive and mind-deadening irrelevance of television.

  Eric Burns

  Home, Technology, Irrelevance

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• Art is the response to the demand for entertainment, for the stimulation of our senses and imagination, and truth enters into it only as it subserves these ends.

  George Santayana

  Art, Imagination, Demand

  George Santayana (2012). “The Sense of Beauty”, p.15, Courier Corporation

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• Doctrines, scriptures, sutras, essays, are not to be regarded as systems to be followed. They merely contribute to understanding. They should be for us a source of stimulation, and nothing more... Adopted, rather than used as a stimulus, they are a hindrance.

  Wei Wu Wei

  Understanding, Doctrine, Scripture

  "Why Lazarus Laughed: The Essential Doctrine, Zen - Advaita - Tantra". Book by Wei Wu Wei, 1960.

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• The whole attempt to advance the kind of consumer society that depends for its growth on the ceaseless stimulation of unlimited covetousness among the rich, while the poor majority rot in their poverty-this is surely something against which a Christian should be a nonconformist.

  Lesslie Newbigin

  Christian, Growth, Majority

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• Given her deafness, the auditory part of the brain, deprived of its usual input, had started to generate a spontaneous activity of its own, and this took the form of musical hallucinations, mostly musical memories from her earlier life. The brain needed to stay incessantly active, and if it was not getting its usual stimulation..., it would create its own stimulation in the form of hallucinations.

  Oliver Sacks

  Memories, Musical, Brain

  Oliver Sacks (2011). “Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain”, p.64, Pan Macmillan

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• The problem with making a virtual world of oneself is akin to the problem with projecting ourselves onto a cyberworld: there’s no end of virtual spaces in which to seek stimulation, but their very endlessness, the perpetual stimulation without satisfaction, becomes imprisoning.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Space, World, Satisfaction

  Jonathan Franzen (2012). “Farther Away: Essays”, p.41, Macmillan

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• The aim of education is to enable individuals to continue their education ... (and) the object and reward of learning is continued capacity for growth. Now this idea cannot be applied to all the members of a society except where intercourse of man with man is mutual, and except where there is adequate provision for the reconstruction of social habits and institutions by means of wide stimulation arising from equitably distributed interests. And this means a democratic society.

  John Dewey

  Change, Education, Mean

  John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.96, Courier Corporation

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• The teacher doesn't teach, not really. The teacher offers stimulation and ways in which the person can educate himself or herself. At best the teacher wakes up that person and makes a person hungry.

  Murray Louis

  Inspirational, Dance, Teacher

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• Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed be the facts. Finley Peter Dunne There is more refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest, than in all the alcohol ever distilled.

  Ovid

  Men, Naps, Alcohol

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• Removing all stimulation around you is a really positive thing in terms of stimulating your creativity.

  Grimes

  Creativity, Term, Really Positive

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