Quotes About Stimulation

The man who cannot be stimulated to great heights of achievement by love, is hopeless-he is dead, though he may seem to live.

Most people fear being without audiovisual stimulation because they are too repetitive when they think and imagine things on their own.

I figured out that whatever I selected myself I could read with more depth and more breadth—there was a match to my curiosity. And I could take advantage of what people later pathologized as Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder (ADHD) by using natural stimulation as a main driver to scholarship.

But you know, only boring people get bored. They have to prod themselves continually in order to feel alive.

Walking out with the people, I didn't know which was more exciting, the air race, the parachute jump that failed, or the cunt.

This thing about fucking was nice. It gave people extra things to think about.

what she doesn't realize is that - usually - only boring people get bored.

The universe is a brightly colored blur of fast-moving shapes augmented by deafening noises.

If a song is longer than three and a half minutes, it'll need something to keep you entertained.

Miss Searle had always considered boredom an intellectual defeat.

We each took a fierce delight in introducing the other to some new idea or development, the next amazing artist or record album, always hustling to out-avant the other's garde. It was exciting, stimulating, but also draining, especially when coupled as it was with mutual romantic jealousy, arguably the dumbest, most useless of human emotions.

When we constantly fill up all our "empty" time with stimulation in the form of electronic devices, games, and distractions, our brains become disengaged and the thinking process is effectively halted. We never get to hear our own inner voice-we don't develop a relationship with ourselves and our minds. We don't get to know who we are because we're not listening.

The hands move of their own volition while the ears are ravished

When people stop moving in life, they stop getting these internal hits of feel-good chemicals. They have to start relying on other ways to artificially stimulate them, like video games, alcohol, smoking weed, social media, or watching porn. We get addicted to these things in a desperate attempt to compensate for the fact that we're not really living our lives.

We're just bored," said Joseph. "That's the simplest answer. It's like, no matter where you are or what you're doing, you have to try like hell to keep from getting bored to death.

Perhaps the most fundamental value of a liberal education is that it makes life more interesting. It allows you to think things which do not occur to the less learned ... it makes it less likely that you will be bored with life.

People can endure almost anything but there's one thing they can't survive. Man is an animal that can't stand boredom

Science is the response to the demand for information, and in it we ask for the whole truth and nothing but the truth. 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.

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A team that has character doesn't need stimulation.

Being bored is an insult to oneself.

Television is chewing gum for the eyes.

Maybe if they played those poppy, jingling Christmas songs on an endless loop in the tank it would be enough.

Staring down at the churning crowd from his second-floor office, he watched them through the kind of one-way glass that psychologists used to monitor the interviews of insane people. And this made sense. The men and women below, stimulated and stimulating each other, were not on the normal bandwidth, and that was why they came to his establishment.