Quotes About Stimulation

I think it's really good to get the adrenaline pumping.

I get off on pushing people's buttons sometimes.

I like when my mind is being stimulated and challenged, and I'm forced to be creative.

I'd rather risk confusion and stay creatively fresh and stimulated. I feel like I'm growing and challenging myself all the time.

Texting is addicting. Once you get emotionally involved with constant outside stimulation assaulting your brain, it is hard to stop looking at your machine every two minutes. Without rapid fire words appearing on a screen, you feel bored, not part of the action.

The only thing I rely on is caffeine.

I don't see the point in caffeine without coffee. Or coffee without caffeine, for that matter.

I love bright red drinks, don't you? They taste twice as good as any other color.

Teaching is a creative profession, not a delivery system. Great teachers do [pass on information], but what great teachers also do is mentor, stimulate, provoke, engage.

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.

Gifted children tend to be very impatient and need constant stimulation, otherwise they become aggressive.

If you stimulate seizures in an animal every day, the seizures eventually become automatic; the animal will go on having them once a day even if you withdraw the stimulation. In much the same way, the brain that has gone into depression a few times will continue to return to depression over and over. This suggests that depression, even if it is occasioned by external tragedy, ultimately changes the structure, as well as the biochemistry, of the brain.

In fact, I've come to the conclusion that the more you entertain children, the more bored they will get.

I've come to the conclusion that the more you entertain children, the more bored they will get.

the more you entertain children, the more bored they will get.

As long as you don't react to a new stimulation, your puppy won't, either — they'll get conditioned to new noises, sights, and people, often without pause or hesitation.

I got in and started the engine, also turning on the radio. When the music began I wished that there might be more switches to turn on, for it was somehow not enough.

Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee. -Jonathan

... he preferred being stimulated to being bored.

There is more refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest, than in all the alcohol ever distilled.

Instead of describing ADD as an inability to concentrate, this model presents it as the ability to concentrate on everything. The world always is alive and ripe with sources of interest.

It's a funny thing about those of us who have ADHD. We want what others avoid. We like problems. We need the difficult. That's because easy is boring. We need the stimulation of intense challenge. But as we've said, a challenge undertaken just for the sake of a challenge can be counterproductive at best, self-defeating at worst.

Needs danger in order to feel engaged with life and truly alive

the person with ADD seldom feels bored. This is because the millisecond he senses boredom, he swings into action and finds something new; he changes the channel.