Quotes About Stimulant

Optimism... A kind of heart stimulant — the digitalis of failure.

Nicotine is a fast acting drug with short lived effects, which you can assume by the fact that you need to smoke often.

Certainly the caffeine in coffee, whether it's Starbucks or generic coffee, is somewhat of a stimulant. But if you drink it in moderation, which I think four or five cups a day is, you're fine.

I'm obsessed - I couldn't even tell you how much coffee I drink in a day.

he quit drinking coffee, and naturally, his brain stopped working.

Surgeons report that after a great victory, for instance, the wounds of the soldiers, as has been noticed in many similar instances, heal much more rapidly than the wounds of the soldiers in the defeated army, showing that the mental exhilaration, which accompanies the consciousness of victory, is a stimulant, a tonic, while conversely the despondency, which accompanies defeat, is also a physical depressant.

I like nicotine because it excites my brain and helps me work.

Fear, Katherine had once heard, acted as a stimulant sharpening the mind's ability to think.

I discovered what a mental stimulant physical labor could be; not mere physical labor, I should add, but absolutely spine-bending, lung-racking, gut-ripping, ligament-tearing, and ball-breaking physical labor. But as long as the task is both onerous and repetitive, I discovered, the mind is not only free to wander to more imaginative climes, it actually flees to higher planes.

Memo: do not drink coffee. It makes me uselessly nervy, even trembly, and engenders baseless optimism about my powers of creation.

We need to stop thinking about infrastructure as an economic stimulant and start thinking about it as a strategy. Economic stimulants produce Bridges to Nowhere. Strategic investment in infrastructure produces a foundation for long-term growth.

Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant - the digitalis of failure.

I consider the coke a major cause. Of course, you could also make the argument that because cocaine speeds up the heart, it's good for you.

Coffee became the stimulant of choice for the new nation, bought primarily from the Dutch—thus the moniker "java.

and sugar was added to the hot coffee

But if I should live to be very old, I have laid plans for that so that it will not be too tiresome. So far, I have never used coffee, liquor, nor any form of stimulant. When I get old, and my joints and bones tell me about it, I can sit around and write for myself, if for nobody else, and read slowly and carefully the mysticism of the East, and re-read Spinoza with love and care. All the while my days can be a succession of coffee cups. Then

Coffee is a drink for grownups. No kid ever likes coffee. It's psychoactive. Coffee is the drug of memory.

I'd say my biggest vice is caffeine, tea or coffee.

So for me, my vice and big challenge is coffee intake. I drink black, organic coffee, but I drink way too much.

Just as the brightest lantern is useless until it is ignited, the presence of genius without the necessary stimulant that sets it to working is a thing of little worth.

Every potion has eight parts. One part is a base liquid to hold the others and provide a medium for mixing. Five parts are symbolically linked to each of the five senses. One is similarly linked to the mind, and another to the spirit. The basic ingredient to the stimulant potion was coffee, while the base for the scent-masking potion was water. I got them both to boiling.

I always keep a supply of stimulant handy in case I see a snake--which I also keep handy.

The blend she preferred was fragrant and so rich in caffeine that the fumes alone would cure narcolepsy.

Gene-Jack Wang and colleagues at the Brookhaven National Laboratory found that treatment with Ritalin over a year increased the dopamine transporters (proteins that help clear dopamine, the neurotransmitter that helps us focus) out of the brain's synapses, meaning that there is less dopamine to do its work. Taking the stimulant seems to increase the need for it.