Stimulus Quotes

Defeat should never be a source of discouragement but rather a fresh stimulus.

Robert South

Motivation, Failure, Defeat

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Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.

Viktor E. Frankl

Happiness, Peace, Freedom

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Employees are a company's greatest asset - they're your competitive advantage. You want to attract and retain the best; provide them with encouragement, stimulus, and make them feel that they are an integral part of the company's mission.

Anne M. Mulcahy

Encouragement, Want, Advantage

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There is no stimulus like that which comes from the consciousness of knowing that others believe in us.

Orison Swett Marden

Motivational, Believe, Knowing

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Attention is riveted on what is tangible, useful, instantly available; the stimulus for deeper thought and reflection may be lacking. Yet human beings have a vital need for time and inner quiet to ponder and examine life and its mysteries... Understanding and wisdom are the fruit of a contemplative eye upon the world, and do not come from a mere accumulation of facts, no matter how interesting.

Pope John Paul II

Eye, Reflection, Interesting

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I am content with nothing, restless and ambitious... and I despise myself for the vanity, which formed half the stimulus to my exertions. Oh would that I were one of those plodding wise fools who having once set their hand to the plough go on nothing doubting.

Thomas Huxley

Wise, Thinking, Vanity

"Huxley: From Devil's Disciple to Evolution's High Priest". Book by Adrian Desmond (p. 84), 1997.

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Being inexhaustible, life and nature are a constant stimulus for a creative mind.

Hans Hofmann

Nature, Creative, Mind

"Hans Hofmann". Book by Cynthia Goodman, p. 103, 1986.

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Single cells analyze thousands of stimuli from the microenvironment they inhabit. The more awareness an organism has of its environment, the better its chances for survival. When cells band together they increase their awareness exponentially. Division of labor among the cells in the community offers an additional survival advantage. The efficiency it enables more cells to live on less. Evolution is based on an instructive, cooperative interaction among organisms and their environment enables life forms to survive and evolve in a dynamic world.

Bruce H. Lipton

Teamwork, Cells, Division Of Labor

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To obtain an assured favorable response from people, it is better to offer them something for their stomachs instead of their brains.

Albert Einstein

Witty, Offering, People

Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.187, Princeton University Press

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Within the U.S., the Obama presidency will be mainly measured by the success or failure of his economic policies. And here, I fear, the monstrous stimulus package with which this administration stumbled out of the gate will prove to be Obama's Waterloo.

Camille Paglia

Administration, Economic, Prove

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Integrity in the Moment of Choice: Quality of life depends on what happens in the space between stimulus and response.

Stephen Covey

Integrity, Space, Choices

"First Things First: To Live, to Love, to Learn, to Leave a Legacy". Book by Stephen Covey, A. Roger Merrill, and Rebecca R. Merrill, 1994.

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We are product of neither nature nor nurture; we are a product of choice, because there is always a space between stimulus and response. As we wisely exercise our power to choose based on principles, the space will become larger.

Stephen Covey

Exercise, Space, Choices

Stephen R. Covey (2013). “The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness”, p.62, Simon and Schuster

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We need some imaginative stimulus, some not impossible ideal such as may shape vague hope, and transform it into effective desire, to carry us year after year, without disgust, through the routine-work which is so large a part of life.

Walter Pater

Routine Work, Years, Desire

Walter Pater (2006). “Marius the Epicurean: Easyread Large Edition”, p.233, ReadHowYouWant.com

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Preparation for war is a constant stimulus to suspicion and ill will.

James Monroe

War, Patriotic, Ill Will

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Death is really a great blessing for humanity, without it there could be no real progress. People who lived for ever would not only hamper and discourage the young, but they would themselves lack sufficient stimulus to be creative.

Alfred Adler

Real, Creativity, Blessing

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In a person who is open to experience each stimulus is freely relayed through the nervous system, without being distorted by any process of defensiveness.

Carl Rogers

Nervous, Process, Congruence

Carl Ransom Rogers (1995). “On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy”, p.353, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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Of what use, however, is a general certainty that an insect will not walk with his head hindmost, when what you need to know is the play of inward stimulus that sends him hither and thither in a network of possible paths?

George Eliot

Play, Needs, Inward

George Eliot (2016). “Daniel Deronda: Top Novelist Focus”, p.243, 谷月社

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After the $700 billion bailout, the trillion-dollar stimulus, and the massive budget bill with over 9,000 earmarks, many of you implored Washington to please stop spending money that we don't have. But instead of cutting, we saw an unprecedented explosion of government spending and debt. It was unlike anything we've ever seen before in the history of the country.

Michele Bachmann

Country, Cutting, Government

Michele Bachmann's response to State of the Union, www.cnn.com. January 26, 2011.

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Death is what takes place within us when we look upon others not as gift, blessing, or stimulus but as threat, danger, competition.

Dorothee Solle

Death, Fear, Blessing

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... 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

Philosophy, Thinking, Soul

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Stimuli, however, do not act upon an indifferent organism.

Jerome Bruner

Indifferent, Organisms

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Any so-called stimulus program is a ruse. The government can increase its spending only by reducing private spending equivalently.

Richard Wagner

Government, Program, Increase

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Any stimulus package amounts to taking money from the pockets of some Americans and placing it in the pockets of others who have better political connections.

Mona Charen

Political, Pockets, Connections

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Drawing general conclusions about your main weaknesses can provide a great stimulus to further growth.

Alexander Kotov

Learning, Drawing, Growth

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Sensorial perception, for example, certainly occurs with greater or less accuracy according to the degree of interest; it is constantly given other directions by the change of external stimuli and by ideas.

Hermann Ebbinghaus

Ideas, Perception, Degrees

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