Stimulus Quotes - Page 2

• 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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• Collect stimulus, draw them. Focus, find out as much as you can. Stimulate yourself.

  Kay WalkingStick

  Focus, Research, Draws

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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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• Man is largely a creature of habit, and many of his activities are more or less automatic reflexes from the stimuli of his environment.

  G. Stanley Hall

  Men, Habit, Reflexes

  G. Stanley Hall (2013). “Adolescence - Its Psychology and Its Relations to Physiology, Anthropology, Sociology, Sex, Crime, and Religion (1931)”, p.180, Read Books Ltd

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• If a worker is deprived of hope to acquire some personal property, what other natural stimulus can be offered him that will inspire him to hard work, labor, saving and sobriety today, when so many nations and men have lost everything and all they have left is their capacity for work?

  Pope Pius XII

  Work, Men, Sobriety

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• I think stimulus money is an absolute mistake.

  Rick Scott

  Mistake, Thinking, Absolutes

  Interview with John King, www.realclearpolitics.com. August 25, 2010.

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• Between stimulus and response is the freedom to choose.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Healing, Conflict, Stimulus And Response

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• The psychological basis of the metropolitan type of individuality consists in the intensification of nervous stimulation which results from the swift and uninterrupted change of outer and inner stimuli.

  Georg Simmel

  Individuality, Individualism, Nervous

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• Adversity is a stimulus.

  James Broughton

  Adversity

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• Normal consciousness is a state of stupor, in which the sensibility to the wholly real and responsiveness to the stimuli of the spirit are reduced. The mystics, knowing that man is involved in a hidden history of the cosmos, endeavor to awake from the drowsiness and apathy and to regain the state of wakefulness for their enchanted souls.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Real, Men, Knowing

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1963). “The earth is the Lord's, and The Sabbath”

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• The premonition of death may for many be a stimulus to novelty of experience: the imminence of death serves to sweep away the inessential preoccupations for those who do not flee from the thought of death into triviality.

  David Riesman

  May, Novelty, Preoccupation

  David Riesman (1955). “Selected essays from Individualism reconsidered”

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• A true community maximizes the potential of whatever human resources exist within it (by allowing for all possible combinations), while networks minimize such utilization, since it's limited by each individual's capacity to absorb unsettling stimuli (new combinations).

  Philip Slater

  Community, Individual, Capacity

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• According to government auditors, the stimulus money is being held up because there aren't enough government workers to oversee the spending. So follow me, in other words, government workers who aren't there are needed to spend money we don't have to create jobs that don't exist.

  Jay Leno

  Jobs, Government, Auditors

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• I am convinced that there is little force left in the Marxist stimulus to revolution. Its impetus is petering out as the practical failures of the doctrine become more obvious...What is left is a technique of subversion and a collection of catch-phrases. The former is still dangerous. Like terrorism, it is a menace that needs to be fought whenever it occurs.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Technique, Doctrine, Needs

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• Obama has paid and will continue to pay dearly for betting on his stimulus package. Because of it, the Bush recession is becoming the Obama recession much faster than it would have had he adopted a more gradual approach to solving economic problems. By jumping in immediately, as he did, in order to increase government spending and pass eight years of Democratic dreams in one day, he made the public expect a solution.

  Dick Morris

  Dream, Jumping, Eight

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• Physical pain is not a simple affair of an impulse, travelling at a fixed rate along a nerve. It is the resultant of a conflict between a stimulus and the whole individual.

  Rene Leriche

  Pain, Simple, Nerves

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• That a strong stimulus to such an afferent nerve, exciting most or all of its fibres, should in regard to a given muscle develop inhibition and excitation concurrently is not surprising.

  Charles Scott Sherrington

  Strong, Nerves, Should

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• The writer gleans wind scraps; he listens wherever he can. Each day is full of instances; what counts, as with all stimuli, is the sympathetic response.

  Nicholas Delbanco

  Wind, Each Day, Sympathetic

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• He soon recognized the fact that the stimulus proceeded from the idea to be in the power of a woman rather than from the act of violence itself.

  Richard von Krafft-Ebing

  Ideas, Violence, Facts

  Richard Von Krafft-Ebing (2013). “Psychopathia Sexualis: A Medico-Forensic Study”, p.156, Butterworth-Heinemann

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• The very first email I got [was] from a women's group saying 'We don't want this stimulus package to just create jobs for burly men.'

  Christina Romer

  Jobs, Men, Want

  "Obama and the Invisible Workingman" by David Paul Kuhn, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• The water was like a physiological stimuli to the subconscious that overwhelmed people with too much psychoanalytical material, you might say. People could do 10 breathing sessions without the water, and then they did breathing sessions in the water.

  Leonard Orr

  Breathing, People, Water

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• If you start responding to every stimulus, then you end up as a nerve gas case, quite literally. Neurons fire at once.

  Hollis Frampton

  Fire, Nerves, Neurons

  Hollis Frampton, Bruce Jenkins (2009). “On the Camera Arts and Consecutive Matters: The Writings of Hollis Frampton”, p.243, MIT Press

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• Anything that's done to address unemployment in terms of massive stimulus spending is going to exacerbate deficits. And anything that's done to address deficits in the short-term is going to exacerbate unemployment.

  Indra Nooyi

  Unemployment, Done, Addresses

  "Discouraged CEOs Set Bar Low for Obama's Job Speech" by Gennine Kelly, www.cnbc.com. September 6, 2011.

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• If I hold a twenty pound weight, I cannot detect a fly landing on it because the least detectable difference in the stimulus is half a pound. On the other hand, if i hold a feather, a fly landing on it makes a great difference. Obviously then, in order to be able to tell the differences in exertion one must first reduce the exertion. Finer and finer performance is possible only if the sensitivity, that is, the ability to feel the difference is improved.

  Moshe Feldenkrais

  Hands, Order, Differences

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• Conscious people always have a choice of whether to try to modify the actions of people around them or to change their response to the incoming stimuli.

  Ken Keyes Jr.

  People, Choices, Trying

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