Quotes About Stimulation

In neurasthenia the person is exhausted from stimulation. They do not have the reserves to recover easily from mental or physical exertion.

moving, like chocolate and sunshine, stirs up many of the same chemicals you ostensibly produce when you're in love.

His voice didn't rise. If anything it lowered, sliding seductively over her nerve endings.

All movies assault the viewer in one way or another.

You must keep active mentally as well as physically. I always try to do that.

acupressure inhibits the pain signals sent to the brain through a mild, fairly painless stimulation,

A person can feel pleasure without any effort, if the appropriate centers in his brain are electrically stimulated, or as a result of the chemical stimulation of drugs. But it is impossible to enjoy a tennis game, a book, or a conversation unless attention is fully concentrated on the activity.

Why is solitude such a negative experience? The bottom-line answer is that keeping order in the mind from within is very difficult. We need external goals, external stimulation, external feedback to keep attention directed. And when external input is lacking, attention begins to wander, and thoughts become chaotic

Any kind of work that involves the muscles and takes less care of the mind is boring.

The state of boredom must be avoided, because it kills more than war.

What Vaughn was doing threatened her sanity, but it also ... stimulated her. For the first time in her life, she felt alive in more than the mind alone. Her body had always seemed like something that wasn't quite hers, but now it was very definitely a part of her - Vaughn stretched every one of her senses to the extreme.

Freud called the first stage of life "polymorphous perverse." At birth infants are so undifferentiated that they have the capacity to receive erotic stimulation at every aperture of the body and any area of skin: from either or both sexes; from animals, food, objects, colors, currents of air, gradations of temperature. As we grow older, become socialized, and develop identity, the satisfactions we pursue become more specific.

le bilinguisme est une stimulation intellectuelle de tous les instants.

Boredom [is] a moral failing, the mark of a mind insufficiently stocked to occupy itself.

Boredom is a problem,' he opined. 'Only if you're stupid,' the woman replied. 'They've got everything they need but for something to occupy their tiny minds.

NASA has been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve. It's sad that we are turning the programme in a direction where it will reduce the amount of motivation and stimulation it provides to young people.

For a while they sat without talking. Anna got her daypack and dug out a paperback copy of Ivanhoe. It produced a book's inevitable effect. In cats it stimulated the urge to sit on the pages. In humans it stimulated conversation.

reading books chronically understimulates the senses."11

As we age and plasticity declines, it becomes increasingly difficult for us to change in response to the world, even if we want to. We find familiar types of stimulation pleasurable; we seek out like-minded individuals to associate with, and research shows we tend to ignore or forget, or attempt to discredit, information that does not match our beliefs, or perception of the world, because it is very distressing and difficult to think and perceive in unfamiliar ways.

The neuroplastic brain evolved in ambulatory beings who ranged around the world, always having to explore unknown territories. In other words, the brain evolved to learn. As people become immobile, they see less, hear less, and process less new information, and their brains begin to atrophy from the lack of stimulation (unless they are fundamentally thinkers, and even then the neuroplastic systems require physical movement to generate new cells and nerve growth factor).

Simbolicul incit?, stimuleaz? - înduio??torul emo?ioneaz? ?i mi?c?.

Academia ar trebui s? fie un institut eminamente filozofic - Doar o unic? facultate - întreg a?ez?mântul organizat în vederea stimul?rii ?i exers?rii adecvate a for?ei de gândire.

I'm never satisfied. I need stronger and stronger stimulation. But I'm a coward and a lazybones, so for the most part nothing happens beyond my imagining some excitement. I'm a speculator of the metaphysical. An adventurer only in my mind. A navigator within the reading room. In other words, I'm an insignificant dream-weaver.

Limit catnip to once or twice a week.