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Quotes About Stimulation

I just take inspiration from anything that visually stimulates me.
~ Violet Chachki
I go to see some big shows of other bands, and I feel like I'm so bombarded and over-stimulated that I lose interest in the music. There has to be light and shade, and less stimulating moments. There has to be an arc to the show.
~ Dave Gahan
I am averse to incompetency. I need mentally stimulating people and intelligent conversations.
~ Vijay Deverakonda
I wanted a physical kick in the music. I wanted it to be stimulating.
~ Andrew Ridgeley
It is extraordinary the extent to which Darwin's insights not only changed his contemporaries' view of the world but also continue to be a source of great intellectual stimulation for scientists and nonscientists alike.
~ James D. Watson
I think I was just constantly seeking mental stimulation from anything I could get.
~ Jessica Henwick
Playful stimulation probably hits all kinds of synaptic possibilities. It is all make-believe and all over the map. The potentiality of the synapses and the potentiality of playfulness are a beautiful marriage.
~ Brian Sutton-Smith
The investigations also proved that there were many cases of spontaneous deviation, i.e. cases where there had been no stimulation of the semi-circular canal apparatus.
~ Robert Barany
I choose my actors well and get to know the quirks of their personalities - and, most of all, I share humor with them. Then I keep my eyes open when they rehearse and perform, because you never know where the next stimulation comes from.
~ George Cukor
Even though decathlon is really long, there's always something different to look forward to, which is great for mental stimulation.
~ Ashton Eaton
When I'm doing a play like 'Betrayal,' I have to be careful not to get stimulation overload.
~ Zawe Ashton
I basically am always chasing this super enhanced stimulation from music.
~ Oneohtrix Point Never
Writing music while caffeinated produces some interesting results. The stimulation basically amplifies my music-production-dependent bi-polarity.
~ Porter Robinson
Multitasking creates a dopamine-addiction feedback loop, effectively rewarding the brain for losing focus and for constantly searching for external stimulation.
~ Daniel Levitin
Natural or artificial stimulation of nerves gives rise to a process of progressive excitation in them, leading to a response in the effector organ of the nerves concerned.
~ Otto Loewi
The stimulation I get from my phone does not feel like the opposite of boredom to me. It actually feels like a different flavor of boredom... a twitchier flavor. And sometimes, it's almost more irritation than stimulation. It's an itch.
~ Robin Sloan
Amusement is a way of boredom-avoidance through external stimulation that fails to exercise our minds. It's mere diversion.
~ John Ortberg
In a large mass of muscle deprived of its circulation, the rate at which the recovery process can go on, after severe stimulation, depends on the rate at which oxygen can reach the fibres by diffusion.
~ Archibald Hill
I guess you could say I'm an addict - an adrenalin addict - I get great excitement and stimulation from doing stuff in public, even though I'm nervous and I have very bad stage fright.
~ Barry Humphries
Outside stimulation makes me nervous!
~ Tituss Burgess
For me, meditation's hard because I feel like I have developed 'cultural attention-deficit disorder,' where, because we have so much stimulation, I feel like I have trouble focusing on things for very long. So when I try to meditate, my brain gets so scattered.
~ Shawn Achor
For adults to enjoy something, they need to have intellectual stimulation, something that's related to real life.
~ Jenova Chen
You look at somebody like Thurston Moore. Is he a noise dude? A punky dude? Is he a free jazz dude? He's a stimulation chaser, and I relate to that.
~ Oneohtrix Point Never
I received more genuine religious stimulation in prison than in the seminary.
~ David Dellinger