Stimulation Quotes - Page 6

• Perhaps why so much of today's photography doesn't grab us or mean anything to our personal lives is that it fails to touch upon the hidden life of the imagination and fantasy, which is hungry for stimulation.

  Arthur Tress

  Photography, Mean, Imagination

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• If only we could love ourselves enough to dare to approach God, what constructive dreams he would give us! What noble possibilities God wants to reveal to us - possibilities that would offer stimulation plus real security in service. But we feel too unworthy. So one layer of negative behavior is laid upon another until we emerge as rebellious sinners. But our rebellion is a reaction, not our nature. By nature we are fearful, not bad.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Dream, Real, Giving

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• I bailed out on social media for a while, and in short order I found I was able to sit down and read a book again. For the first time in a couple years I could read more than three pages without my brain wandering off into the ether. I drew a direct causal line between all this sort of ratta-tat-tat staccato stimulation that we get from the Internet and my growing inability to sit down and read anything that was longer than 500 words. But for me it came back because those synapses were already latent in my brain.

  Ron Currie Jr.

  Couple, Book, Media

  Source: therumpus.net

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• One of the many conditions that have to be met for a brain to become a mind, and therefore have consciousness, is 'the analog I' around which all the simultaneous inflow of sensations and stimulations are reflected and organized.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Mind, Brain, Consciousness

  "There Is No Real Life". Interview with Brad Fox, www.guernicamag.com. March 15, 2013.

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• In order to explain why the ordinary Sadhus and Yogis take to tobacco and gānja [an intoxicant], I said that these cause stimulation of the physical brain. But these have reactions. And to stimulate the brain thus is not the proper process.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Order, Brain, Ordinary

  Source: overmanfoundation.wordpress.com

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• I think everyone on the planet is a fan of a painting because everyone is a fan of visual stimulation, but I've had freedom in the world [of painting] because I've kept it to myself.

  Scott Avett

  Thinking, Fans, World

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When I was a child, my society lifted me up - though education primarily, as well as through other kinds of cultural stimulation. It wasn't just my parents or my religious community. The entire society lifted me up to the bottom rung of the ladder. Then they said, "Girl, it's up to you whether or not you climb." I don't have a problem with that. I think that is the best way to go about living.

  Marianne Williamson

  Girl, Religious, Children

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• Just being in a room with myself is almost more stimulation than I can bear.

  Kate Braverman

  Rooms, Just Being, Bears

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• Never underestimate the stimulation of eccentricity.

  Neil Simon

  Underestimate, Eccentricity, Never Underestimate

  Neil Simon (1988). “Biloxi Blues”, Signet

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• The well-being of a neuron depends on its ability to communicate with other neurons. Studies have shown that electrical and chemical stimulation from both a neuron's inputs and its targets support vital cellular processes. Neurons unable to connect effectively with other neurons atrophy. Useless, an abandoned neuron will die.

  Lisa Genova

  Support, Target, Useless

  Lisa Genova (2011). “Lisa Genova Box Set: Still Alice and Left Neglected”, p.213, Simon and Schuster

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• Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort. The joy and moral stimulation of work no longer must be forgotten in the mad chase of evanescent profits. These dark days will be worth all they cost us if they teach us that our true destiny is not to be ministered unto but to minister to ourselves and to our fellow men.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Lying, Dark, Destiny

  Franklin D. Roosevelt (2009). “Looking Forward”, p.221, Simon and Schuster

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• We were just a little immature in the past. I think we actually wanted to create difficult situations for ourselves just to be able to use that emotion for stimulation.

  Billy Corgan

  Past, Thinking, Difficult Situations

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• It is an interesting law of romance that a truly strong woman will choose a strong man who disagrees with her over a weak one who goes along. Strength demands intelligence, intelligence demands stimulation, and weakness is boring. It is better to find a partner you can contend with for a lifetime than one who accommodates you because he doesn't really care.

  Roger Ebert

  Strong Women, Law, Interesting

  Roger Ebert (2001). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2002”, Andrews McMeel Pub

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• The history of medicine proves that in so far as man seeks to know himself and face his whole nature, he has become free from bewildered fear, despondent shame, or arrant hypocrisy. As long as sex is dealt with in the current confusion of ignorance and sophistication, denial and indulgence, suppression and stimulation, punishment and exploitation, secrecy and display, it will be associated with a duplicity and indecency that lead neither to intellectual honesty nor human dignity.

  Alfred Kinsey

  Sex, Honesty, Ignorance

  "Sexual Behaviour in the Human Male". Book by Alfred Kinsey, 1948.

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• Now, my oral illustration be like clitoral stimulation
  to the female gender
  Ain't nothin' better
  Let me know when it's wet enough to enter

  Andre Benjamin

  Illustration, Hip Hop, Female

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• Because a work does not aim at reproducing natural appearances it is not, therefore, an escape from life -- but may be a penetration into reality...as expression of the significance of life, a stimulation to greater effort in living.

  Henry Moore

  Reality, Expression, Effort

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• Pornography is writing that seeks primarily, even exclusively, to bring about sexual stimulation. This can be done crudely or delicately. In the former case it would be bad literature; in the latter good.

  Kenneth Tynan

  Writing, Creative, Would Be

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• Next to the intellectual stimulation of chess, the educational value is of great importance. Chess teaches logic, imagination, self-discipline, and determination.

  Garry Kasparov

  Determination, Educational, Self

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• One of the biggest impediments for women is that they have never really understood, looked at or examined their own genitals. They have not really figured out what kind of stimulation and where feels best for them, so they are not able to guide a partner in this.

  Gail Saltz

  Able, Kind, Guides

  "Dissatisfied, ladies? Tips to reach the Big O". TODAY interview, www.today.com. November 2, 2007.

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• Novelty is vital to the stimulation of life... New neural paths are sparked by caving in to notions.

  Robert Genn

  Ideas, Path, Novelty

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• Artists of all sorts remain youthful for so long, and in many cases attain a grand old age. The explanation is that they live in an almost permanent condition of stimulation and excitement.

  Egon Friedell

  Artist, Long, Age

  Egon Friedell (2008). “A Cultural History of the Modern Age Vol. 1: Renaissance and Reformation”, p.60, Transaction Publishers

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• At each stage of development the child needs different resources from the family. During the first year, a variety of experience and the availability of the parents for attachment are primary. During the second and third years, stimulation of language development is critical. During the years prior to school entrance, information that persuades children they are loved becomes critical, and during the school years it is important for children to believe that they can succeed at the tasks they want to master.

  Jerome Kagan

  Children, Believe, School

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• My daughter will say she's hungry, and I'm like, 'Buddy, you're just bored. Do you understand? And you're already starting a pattern of satisfying an internal disconnect with an external stimulation, and that's a dead-end road, sweetie. Courtney Love lives on that road; you don't want to live on that road.

  Dana Gould

  Daughter, Love Life, Bored

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• The director of The Sopranos told me that, if I wouldn't gain weight, I would lose my job. I didn't look like the girl who ate pasta all day. This was an extra stimulation to fight my eating problems.

  Jamie Lynn Sigler

  Girl, Jobs, Fighting

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• Generally, the imagery and the text go hand in hand. It's much easier when the text comes first, but sometimes I need visual stimulation in order to find the words. I get an idea of what I want when I begin to shoot, and the text is usually the last thing to be resolved. I tend to leave the text open, and I refine the words up to the last minute. As for the image, I can resolve that and get that done fairly quickly.

  Lorna Simpson

  Order, Ideas, Hands

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