Quotes About Inhibition

But I didn't dare. That has always been my trouble. I've never dared enough.

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

some had idly speculated about how long he would go on if he could command time as well as language. The consensus seemed to be forever. The sound of his own voice, his lack of inhibition, the fact that linear thought and presentation turned out not at all to be necessary, the wonder that this random approach seemed to command, and his own replenishing supply of free association—all this suggested that he was limited only by everyone else's schedule and attention span.

She watched the woman around her. Most of them undulated like strippers or ground their arses into the men dancing behind them. She copied a few of the less X-rated moves and hoped she didn't look like she needed seizure medication.

When I drank, I had a very different attitude towards my playing. It was sloppier but I kind of liked it that way. It was like the alcohol was telling my mind what to do.

this person must also have a weak ego, virtually no superego and a domineering id, which means that the fantasy will not be inhibited but will be acted out.

Freud's theory on the topological structure of the psyche, namely the id, ego and superego, provides an answer to my second question, namely the lack of an inhibiting censor, such as a conscience, to prevent the serial killer from acting out his fantasy.

The chief reason for drinking is the desire to behave in a certain way, and to be able to blame it on alcohol.

When people restrain themselves out of fear, their lives are by necessity diminished. They

I wouldn't use a British accent out loud, but I'd be using one in my head and it would carry over.

The truth is, I don't have a catchy method of conversing and yet unfortunately suffer of a minute to minute basis the agony of the unexpressed thought.

El poder de mercado, a la hora de la verdad, es excluyente y, por tanto, anticompetitivo; es decir, inhibe la competencia. Pero ni siquiera las empresas que ya ocupan un puesto dentro de la ciudadela, protegidas por barreras que limitan la entrada de nuevos rivales, tienen garantizada una vida fácil, ni siquiera la supervivencia.

This sent me into an inappropriate laughing fit. I wasn't allowed to get angry, and I couldn't cry, so I laughed - a lot. (114)

Inductive reason, which alone makes man master of his environment, is an achievement and when once born it must be reinforced by inhibiting the growth of other modes of knowledge.

The genitals inhibit the evolutionary development of the brain, since the trends of modern culture develop at the expense of the genitals, inflation, selfishness, infantilism, etc. The world will heal profundity.

Automation tends to turn us from actors into observers. Instead of manipulating the yoke, we watch the screen. That shift may make our lives easier, but it can also inhibit our ability to learn and to develop expertise.

Design no longer leads back towards a divine origin, because once shifted into cybernetics it ceases to commensurate with the theopolitical ideal of the plan. Planning is the creationist symptom of underdesigned software circuits, associated with domination, tradition, and inhibition; with everything that shackles the future to the past. All planning is theopolitics, and theopolitics is cybernetics in a swamp. (298-9)

To educate man is to impede the "free expression of his personality.

Allowables I killed a spider Not a murderous brown recluse Nor even a black widow And if the truth were told this Was only a small spider Sort of papery spider Who should have run When I picked up the book But she didn't And she scared me And I smashed her I don't think I'm allowed To kill something Because I am Frightened.

There are so many things that I want so badly to tell you but I just can't.

When wine is in, truth is out, you know.

Writer's block is only a failure of the ego.

Art, by overcoming the inhibition and by activating the playful primary process, which is intrinsically easier and more enjoyable than the procedures of normal responsible thought, on both counts effects a saving in psychic expenditure and provides relief from the pressures of reason

Shyness is shit. It isn't cute or feminine or appealing. It's torment, and it's shit.