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Quotes About Stimulus

Where envy is unavoidable it must be used as a stimulus to one's own efforts, not to the thwarting of the efforts of rivals.
~ Bertrand Russell
Well, the chairman of Federal Reserve just made his move to rescue Barack Obama. We're gonna have QE3. We're gonna print some more money.
~ Rush Limbaugh
If you aren't giving people something to talk about, you've become too dull.
~ Sue Monk Kidd
For boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.
~ Susan Sontag
A noxious stimulus, such as an angry person, crowds, noise, or bright light, can agitate us because our threshold for sensory overload is extremely low.
~ Judith Orloff
Many were hostile to Hitler but many more were seduced by the new "faith." It was "buoyant exciting and alive. It was not patronizing. It broke down social barriers, provided pageantry and stimulus." It was, in a nutshell, a new gospel.
~ Julia Boyd
I take stuff because I'm inspired by it.
~ Daniel Craig
For travel is a stimulus to the imagination, and imagination is the very path to love.
~ Fenton Johnson
Joyce saw perhaps what Wittgenstein felt—that 'Colours spur us to philosophize. [. . . They] seem to present us with a riddle, a riddle that stimulates us — not one that disturbs us.
~ Finn Fordham
But of the stimulus of drugs, of potions, beware. For the sake of that very majesty with which you justly wish to aggrandize your soul, beware. Their fountains will be presently exhausted, and then you shall helplessly beat your breast, as without possibility of arising from the brink you draw in their foul, their maddening lees, and curse yourself for slaying those noble powers which it was your longing to strengthen, to nourish, and to clarify.
~ Fitz Hugh Ludlow
felicidad que nuestro corazón desea no la afecta ni el éxito ni el fracaso, mora muy adentro de nosotros y nos da paz y contentamiento interiores, no importa cuál sea el problema en la superficie. Es el tipo de felicidad que no necesita ningún estímulo exterior.
~ Billy Graham
It is true that humans are not logic machines. But, remember, emotion is a response. Not a stimulus.
~ Bob Hoffman
He's the kind of person that would inspire crazy people.
~ Bob Woodward
Even a rat will choose the least painful route if you shock him enough
~ Haruki Murakami
A government decision that slashes spending at the wrong time and sends a weak economy into a tailspin can be just as undisciplined as one that unleashes a wasteful spending spree in an overheated environment.
~ Peter Blair Henry
We are in a situation with the huge stimulus package that's going to be spent all across this nation and a big financial crisis and banking crisis. And what we need is good, trained journalists who can play the role of watchdog.
~ Walter Isaacson
I don't accept as an article of faith that lots of short-term stimulus boosts the economy and gets us back on the long-term trajectory.
~ Glenn Hubbard
If you put stimulus into an economy, you know there is a time lag in terms of depending where you invest it. If it's family transfers, it might be quick. If it's infrastructure, it might be two, three, five years.
~ Sharan Burrow
The government can help, but we need to make this transition now to a recovery led by private investment, private.
~ Timothy Geithner
I've been told, by various people, that I think too much. This is incorrect! The truth is that I deliberately challenge people to think more than they would like to.
~ Wayne Gerard Trotman
Though love is instinctive, it cannot develop without a certain stimulus and use.
~ Lu Xun
I mused for a few moments on the question of which was worse, to lead a life so boring that you are easily enchanted or a life so full of stimulus that you are easily bored.
~ Bill Bryson
The whole system was based upon getting kids to a certain standard and packing their minds with information so they could go on to a good university ... The great failure in education, much of the time, is a lack of excitement and stimulus.
~ Bill Bryson
Rosa is pushing all the buttons.
~ Justine Larbalestier