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Quotes About Stimulation

Times Square is an assault on every sense, and somehow that includes not only scent but taste. Everything is in motion and swirling and you want to give the entire square a giant Adderall. There
~ Harlan Coben
The book to read is not the one that things for you but the one which makes you think.
~ Harper Lee
The book to read is not the one that thinks for you but the one which makes you think .
~ Harper Lee
A dense, artistic kind of imperfection stimulates your consciousness, keeps you alert. If I listen to some utterly perfect performance of an utterly perfect piece while I'm driving, I might want to close my eyes and die right then and there. But listening to the D major, I can feel the limits of what humans are capable of-- that a certain type of perfection can only be realised through a limitless accumulation of imperfect.
~ Haruki Mukarami
You can't be a creative thinker if you're not stimulating your mind, just as you can't be an Olympic athlete if you don't train regularly.
~ Ken Robinson
The making of an Atheist implies a mental stimulation and training which brings into play the primary factors of social progress.
~ Joseph McCabe
Is stress always bad? No - if a stressor isn't too extreme, is only transient, and occurs in what overall feels like a benevolent environment, it's great, we love it - that's what play and stimulation are.
~ Robert Sapolsky
Sometimes it appears that we're reaching a period when our senses and our minds will no longer respond to moderate stimulation. We seem to be approaching an Age of the Gross. Persuasion through speeches and books is too often discarded for disruptive demonstrations aimed at bludgeoning the unconvinced into action.
~ SPIRO AGNEW
The less I felt in myself, the more strongly I was drawn to those places where the whirligig of life spins most rapidly. If you are experiencing nothing yourself, the passionate restlessness of others stimulates the nervous system like music or drama.
~ Stefan Zweig
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
Boredom comes from a boring mind.
~ Metallica
I want to create situations that give people something to think about.
~ Charlie Kaufman
I love doing different things where, for a little while, I can focus on standup then sketch writing, then performing, then directing a video. That, to me, is stimulating.
~ Kyle Dunnigan
I love when a TV show, or entertainment in general, makes me feel something; be it positive, be it negative, be it happiness, be it awkward, uncomfortable if it can make me feel, it's done it's job.
~ Nathan Fillion
It is an intoxicating experience to taste Coca-Cola as if for the first time and to be conveyed to the very brink of orgasm by white bread. Makes all the discomfort worthwhile, if you ask me.
~ Bill Bryson
Grabbing his very fine, very taut ass in my hands, I squeezed. I need more coffee to deal with your gift, ace. Chapter 8, pg 131
~ Sylvia Day
Coffee is one of my major food groups.
~ Sylvia Day
His one weakness was that he was stimulated by his own fear, enjoyed, it, frequently sought it out.
~ Tanith Lee
The highly sensitive boy's nervous system is wired in such a way that he is more acutely aware of, and attuned to, himself, other people, and his environment than the non-HSB. As a result, a highly sensitive boy is more easily stimulated by his surroundings. This is an inborn trait that researchers have also observed in approximately twenty percent of animal populations.
~ Ted Zeff
Television: chewing gum for the eyes.
~ Frank Lloyd Wright
TV -- chewing gum for the eyes.
~ Frank Lloyd Wright
El cuerpo necesita muchas comidas diferentes para mantenerse sano. Y la mente necesita muchas ideas distintas para mantenerse aguda.
~ Brandon Sanderson
give indication that the process is continuing, as humans quickly grow bored without auditory stimulation.
~ Brandon Sanderson
The explosion, it seemed, had shocked the life into people.*
~ Brandon Sanderson