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Quotes About Stimulating

If you have a strong opponent, a competition is stimulating. I am generally most open to ideas when I have had a bad result. In chess, too, players specialise. This specialty then becomes an entry barrier.
~ Viswanathan Anand
There are few things more fundamentally encouraging and stimulating than seeing someone else die.
~ Stanley Kubrick
Directing while overcoming differences of language and culture is a stimulating challenge.
~ Hirokazu Kore-eda
Smell is stimulating. It stirs things up and makes us nostalgic - a wonderful word which literally means 'ache for home' - which serves to inspire new circuits in the brain.
~ Lyall Watson
In terms of pressure, El Clasico is unique, but also a match against PSG is a stimulating and exciting clash.
~ Raphael Varane
To me... San Francisco is an ideal city, intellectually stimulating and naturally beautiful. The oceans and forests are close enough to refresh the spirit; the architecture is always exciting.
~ Ruth Bernhard
I find Edinburgh a stimulating place in which to live, with it being a city of contrasts, both architecturally and socially, and each district having a definite character.
~ Joan Lingard
I'm just looking as always for something that's stimulating and I hope to find a good story that's a challenge, whether it's big or small. Or that it finds me. I don't have like a career plan. Maybe I should, but I don't.
~ Viggo Mortensen
I have done some wonderful television, but you know, there's not as much exceptional material as there is in the theatre. So I do a lot of theatre, but really, as with most actors, I just love going from one to another. It's stimulating, it's diverting, it's a different way of life, and you know, I dearly like a good mix.
~ Lindsay Duncan
Also, differences of opinion can be creatively stimulating as well as frustrating.
~ Jim Coleman
A truth that disheartens because it is true is of more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods.
~ Maurice Maeterlinck
Interest rate cuts have an effect in stimulating an economy by directly or indirectly making someone, somewhere, spend more than they otherwise would. That extra spending increases demand and ensures that we all carry on with work to do, without us having to slash our prices or our wrists.
~ Evan Davis
I loved it. I just thought I wanted to stay in college forever. I came to New York all by myself; I didn't have any friends there. But it was fine. I felt comfortable. I started thinking, 'Maybe graduate school?' I was really cool with people who were smart, who knew stuff. It's very romantic and stimulating.
~ Alice Smith
I was booed at the premiere of 'Miss Julie,' a remarkably stimulating experience.
~ Ingmar Bergman
Music and space collide for me, as I find them incredibly stimulating.
~ M. Shadows
I'm not a big fan of antiques shows or 'Cash In The Attic.' I don't care about the rubbish in your loft! I don't find it stimulating in any way.
~ Emma Willis
The examples of the Obama Administration 'stimulating' jobs everywhere on the planet except here in America are endless.
~ Bob Beauprez
England was a delightful and stimulating place for a young academic, although by present standards, the laboratory facilities were primitive. There were almost no research grants and no secretarial assistance, even for Sherrington.
~ John Eccles
'NYT Opinion' offers our readers what we think are the most stimulating and interesting points of view you can find anywhere.
~ Andrew Rosenthal
Increased trade is crucial to a balanced plan for stimulating growth and job creation on both sides of the Atlantic.
~ Max Baucus
Making the 'Sulfur' video continued our quest to make a video different and visually stimulating.
~ Joey Jordison
When you're the showrunner, you're the person that's in control of most of the details, and to be able to take all that and then to step right behind the camera and to have a direct line of communication with the crew and with the actors - to not be delivering that through another person - is pretty freeing and extremely stimulating.
~ Julie Plec
Down the road, the most controversial approach to neuroenhancement could be a way not of stimulating the brain but of reengineering it.
~ Maria Konnikova
Just keep stirring the pot, you never know what will come up.
~ Lee Atwater