Quotes About Stimulation

A lot of stuff people do these days is not mentally challenging.

Even in a personal sense, after all, art is an intensified life. By art one is more deeply satisfied and more rapidly used up. It engraves on the countenance of its servant the traces of imaginary and intellectual adventures, and even if he has outwardly existed in cloistral tranquility, it leads in the long term to overfastidiousness, over-refinement, nervous fatigue and overstimulation, such as can seldom result from a life of the most extravagant passions and pleasures.

And for its part, what was life? Was it perhaps only an infectious disease of matter—just as the so-called spontaneous generation of matter was perhaps only an illness, a cancerous stimulation of the immaterial?

I get an extra 20 IQ points from being in that office,

Das Schlimme bei passionierten Reitern ist, dachte er, daß die ständige Stimulation der Geschlechtsorgane zwangsläufig die Gehirntätigkeit behindert.

Coffee! Coffee!

The elderly are the most entertaining people in the world," she eventually told Irina. "They have lived a lot, say whatever they like, and couldn't care less about other people's opinion. You'll never get bored here. Our residents are well educated, and if they're in good health they keep on learning and experimenting. This community stimulates them and they can avoid the worst scourge of old age: loneliness." Irina

The mind can also be an erogenous zone.

Dullness is a misdemeanour.

Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.

Getting bored is not allowed.

Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

I think the inner person is the most important. ... I would like to see an invention that keeps the mind alert. That's what is important.

After several trillion dollars of stimulation by the Obama Administration and the Fed, one might think the economy would be chugging along at a pretty good clip. But, it just isn't so, and the light at the end of the tunnel is pretty dim. Just ask a small business owner.

I tweet 15 times a day to keep my brain stimulated.

Poetry is the great stimulation of life. Poetry leads past possession of self to transfiguration beyond gender. Poetry is redemption from pessimism.

Maybe it was the lack of stimulation that made you so productive and sort of... determined.

A world without boredom would be dull.

Reading literary fiction stimulates cognition beyond the brain functions related to reading, say, magazine articles, interviews, or most online nonfiction reporting.

Me bebo el café mientras caminamos, y descubro que la nata y el azúcar mejoran muchísimo su sabor. Apuro los posos que se han quedado al fondo de la taza y noto que un leve cosquilleo empieza a circularme por las venas.

For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.

People have always liked to be frightened. People love to feel that jolt of adrenaline. People love roller coasters. People love skydiving. These things that really get your heart pumping, and horror films are sort of a safe way to get that rush I guess.

Those who indulge themselves in sense stimulation throughout their lives often end up exhausted, with an enfeebled will and little capacity to love others.

The mind grows only through use, and it atrophies through idleness.