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Quotes About Stimulation

Since new developments are the products of a creative mind, we must therefore stimulate and encourage that type of mind in every way possible.
~ George Washington Carver
Your brain needs exercise, just like your body," he said. "A lazy brain does no one any good.
~ Deborah Ellis
If one of them appears in company, he's a grain of yeast which ferments and gives back to everyone some part of his natural individuality. He shakes things up. He agitates us.
~ Denis Diderot
There's no such thing as downtime for your brain.
~ Jeffrey Kluger
I never want things to be dull.
~ Pavel Durov
Human Technology suggests that meditative experience can be deeper if preceded by stimulation and energizing our bodies and breath.We do this through "meridian exercises", an effective way of moving our bodies to improve our breath-work and to enhance our awareness while energizing our bodies.
~ Ilchi Lee
Breast stimulation is especially effective in starting labor at term when it is combined with sexual intercourse. Unless your partner is an abysmally poor lover, this combination is by far the most enjoyable method of induction.
~ Ina May Gaskin
extraverts (EST) organize the situation itself, including any idle bystanders, and get things rolling
~ Isabel Briggs Myers
From the described experiment it is clear that the mere act of eating, the food even not reaching the stomach, determines the stimulation of the gastric glands.
~ Ivan Pavlov
We live in a day when our sense are so dull that we need extreme sports, bingeing, or dangerous pastimes to give us a sense we are alive. We crave reality — both pain and pleasure — so much that many young people cut themselves, saying, 'I just wanted to feel something.
~ Dan B. Allender
My secret weapon is my anger. That's what stimulates me as an artist. I want change. I want it yesterday. I'm pissed off at America. Society. American movies. American TV. American culture. American politicians. Capitalism. I'm a little like my old man in that way only I'm a recovered drunk. He wasn't. I should have been dead years ago like my brother but somehow I dodged the bullet and it gave me something to say. Impatience and rage are always just beneath the surface for me.
~ Dan Fante
Jobs that offer autonomy but little challenge bore us.
~ Daniel H. Pink
Down a cup of coffee.
~ Daniel H. Pink
Multitasking creates a dopamine-addiction feedback loop, effectively rewarding the brain for losing focus and for constantly searching for external stimulation.
~ Daniel J. Levitin
An adjustable noise machine or even a hearing aid can be programmed to provide stimulation at the precise frequency of the tinnitus, thus giving those orphaned neurons some stimulation, which causes them to calm down and, voilà, the tinnitus disappears.
~ Daniel J. Levitin
it is much easier to strive for perfection when you are never bored.
~ Daniel Kahneman
I always like to believe that my work is about the expansion of the possibilities of the viewer. So if you have a sense of a heightened situation where there's an excitement, a physical excitement and an intellectual stimulation, there's just this sense of expansion. Because that's where the art happens. Inside the viewer.
~ Jeff Koons
All movies assault the viewer in one way or another.
~ Michael Haneke
Violence was almost an aphrodisiac for me.
~ Woody Harrelson
The mixture of café au lait and impatience was producing an exquisite vibration.
~ Louise Penny
Every limited mind demands a certain freedom of expression, and the man who cannot express himself satisfactorily without the stimulation derived from the spirited mode of two centuries ago should certainly be permitted to follow without undue restraint a practice so harmless, so free from essential error, and so sanctioned by precedent, as that of employing in his poetical compositions the smooth and inoffensive allowable rhyme.
~ Unknown
I know that some neurologists think that autistic kids have brain synapses so close together and firing in such quick succession that they cause hyperawareness; that one of the reasons children on the spectrum rock or stim is to help them focus instead of having all sensations bombard them at once. I think clairvoyance isn't really all that much different. In all probability, neither is mental illness.
~ Jodi Picoult
I need something deeper. I need someone to challenge me intellectually
~ Unknown
...I have always lived on contrasts! To me the only death is monotony. Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.
~ Edith Wharton