Quotes About Stimulus

We are so constituted that we can gain intense pleasure only from the contrast, and only very little from the condition itself.

La totalidad de las fuentes oníricas puede dividirse en cuatro especies; división que ha servido también de base para clasificar los sueños: 1. Estímulo sensorial externo (objetivo). 2. Estímulo sensorial interno (subjetivo). 3. Estímulo somático interno (orgánico). 4. Fuentes de estímulo puramente psíquicas.

Here we may be assisted by the idea that a defence against an unwelcome internal process will be modelled upon the defence adopted against an external stimulus, that the ego wards off internal and external dangers alike along identical lines.

Arousal is nature's stimulus for the propagation of the human race. The unaroused male of the species is as useless for that purpose as a worm. Arousal can happen sooner or later, but it must happen.

4 minutes in and this video has already given me an erection

Our entire neurobiology acts as a giant input-output system, that receives information from the outside world, processes that information and makes a person react accordingly.

Emotions get our attention.

The more attention the brain pays to a given stimulus, the more elaborately the information will be encoded—and retained.

An element which stimulates itself will hold a stimulus indefinitely.

With all due respect to Tertullian, the soul is naturally pagan. Any god at all, when he answers to our immediate needs, represents for us an increase of vitality, a stimulus, which is not the case if he is imposed upon us or if he corresponds to no necessity. Paganism's mistake was to have accepted and accumulated too many of them: it died of generosity and excess of understanding—it died from a lack of instinct.

I want to see the economy rebound.

We simply can't spend our way out of a recession.

Aggressive government spending during the Great Recession was absolutely necessary.

Without public investment, without families spending, without cheap credit, the economy won't recover.

We really accomplished what we set out to do with the Recovery Act programs, which was to fill the lending gap created by the crisis.

Every month that we do not have an economic recovery package 500 million Americans lose their jobs.

The extension and expansion of the payroll tax holidays for workers would be number one on my list and key to avoiding recession.

When I see stimulus money being used to attack American companies and American workers, I think it would be very unsettling to be working on the assembly line of Coca Cola, look up, and see an ad that's trying to hurt the very job that you make your wages and pay taxes from.

When I'm tired, I see industrial pictures. But I'll see one every two months. If I see one every day, I'll become an idiot.

There is no reasoning, no process of inference or comparison; there is no thinking about things, no putting two and two together; there are no ideas - the animal does not think of the box or of the food or of the act he is to perform.

Sometimes if your only approach is cutting spending at a time when the economy's contracting, then the economy will contract further.

I think there is need for economic stimulus... and government can help make that up in a very difficult time.

Humour is the only domain of creative activity where a stimulus on a high level of complexity produces a massive and sharply defined response on the level of physiological reflexes.

Neuroimaging in the brain shows that once the areas of the brain that process incoming sensory data are sensitized to incoming data, that is, once the gating channels are opened more widely, the sections of the brain that gate that particular type of sensory data stay open. The baseline gating level increases even if the degree of sensory stimulus is not increased. The metaphysical background of the world begins to emerge into sensing on a regular basis.