Quotes About Stimulation

Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction.

Affliction is more apt to suffocate the imagination than to stimulate it.

I would rather be confused for 10 minutes than bored for 5 seconds.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. It is wholesome and bracing for the mind to have its faculties kept of the stretch.

Travel experiences are emotionally loaded. Often there is excitement and stimulation. The tingle-factor though comes partly from the fact that we're stressed, just a little.

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.

to manufacture sensations.

I've always associated reading and writing with sex.

He knew as deeply as he knew anything that sedation was the prelude to anxiety, stimulation the prelude to exhaustion and consolation the prelude to disappointment, and so he lay on the red velvet sofa and did nothing to distract himself from the news of his mother's death.

There's nothing like walking out and watching the people get turned on. Nothing in the world could replace it.

Coffee makes me go crazy.

It's coffee - if I have just the right amount, I come across as charismatic. One too many, and it's like I'm having a seizure.

There are a lot of songs that, you know, just get me excited because they create a certain, I guess, set of colors in my head.

When things are too easy I lose interest in them so I find ways to complicate them to get myself interested.

I like being surrounded by good ideas. Every single time you walk past something you like, you get a blast of happy chemicals to the brain, and I like that.

Boredom is what happens to people who have no control over their minds.

That is always a triumph, to evade boredom.

The woods were my Ritalin. Nature calmed me, focused me, and yet excited my senses.

addicted to a rate of stimulations per second that she hasn't entirely kicked.

The negro has within him immense power for self-uplifting, but for years it will be necessary to guide and stimulate him.

Your thoughts are too dull to entertain.

The gentle motion a baby experiences during babywearing stimulates the vestibular system, and scientists are finding that this stimulation helps babies breathe and grow better, regulates their physiology, and improves motor development. This is especially true for premature infants. Some babies recognize on their own that they need vestibular stimulation. When deprived of it, they often attempt to put themselves into motion and develop self-rocking behaviors.

challenging the mind fortifies new neural networks. Much in the way our muscles gain strength and functionality when physically challenged through exercise, the brain similarly rises to the challenges of intellectual stimulation.

The primary job of the muscles, even in a body at rest, is to stabilize our structure and keep our joints from slipping apart. And in addition, muscle cells themselves will not thrive without a certain level of constant stimulation from their nerves.