Stimulus Quotes
Stimulus Quote of the day
Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.
Defeat should not be the source of discouragement, but a stimulus to keep plotting.
Mindfulness is a pause - the space between stimulus and response: that's where choice lies.
Real freedom is the ability to pause between stimulus and response, and in that pause, choose.
A democratic civilization will save itself only if it makes the language of the image into a stimulus for critical reflection - not an invitation for hypnosis.
Drawing general conclusions about your main weaknesses can provide a great stimulus to further growth.
Death is what takes place within us when we look upon others not as gift, blessing, or stimulus but as threat, danger, competition.
Perception is less of a recording system and more of a protection system against external stimuli.
I opposed the Medicare prescription drug entitlement. I opposed the Wall Street bailout. I opposed the stimulus bill.
Well-washed and well-combed domestic pets grow dull; they miss the stimulus of fleas.
There is no stimulus like that which comes from the consciousness of knowing that others believe in us.
Physical pain is not a simple affair of an impulse, travelling at a fixed rate along a nerve. It is the resultant of a conflict between a stimulus and the whole individual.
Let's be honest about this; the liberal agenda with failed stimulus plans and government entitlement programs is crippling our economy and our quality of life.
The stimulus was a case of political patronage, corporate welfare, and cronyism at their worst.
If work is no antidote to death, nor a denial of it, death is a powerful stimulus to work. Get done what you can.
That a strong stimulus to such an afferent nerve, exciting most or all of its fibres, should in regard to a given muscle develop inhibition and excitation concurrently is not surprising.
It is impossible to describe any human action if one does not refer to the meaning the actor sees in the stimulus as well as in the end his response is aiming at.
Do I think Donald Trump can run the country a lot better and get along with other countries like Russia? Absolutely he can do a better job. He can create a stimulus. He can lower taxes.
What saved the economy, and the New Deal, was the enormous public works project known as World War II, which finally provided a fiscal stimulus adequate to the economy’s needs.
Television for a child creates such a high bar of stimulus that nothing else competes. A beautiful day is absolute crap to a kid who watches tv.
The element of discovery is very important. I don't repeat myself well. I want and need that stimulus of walking forward from one new world to another.
The same stimulus that animates men to action, will have a proportionate effect on juvenile minds.
Moral good is a practical stimulus; it is no sooner seen than it inspires an impulse to practice.
The stimulus of competition, when applied at an early age to real thought processes, is injurious both to nerve-power and to scientific insight.
And so we have to be careful with looking at additional stimulus that we don't provoke an increase in the bond rate and then offset a lot of the stimulus we've already got.
If you start responding to every stimulus, then you end up as a nerve gas case, quite literally. Neurons fire at once.
The economy needs a stimulus. We MUST borrow. The notion of debt as a sin or something evil should be reviewed.
The basic stimulus to the intelligence is doubt, a feeling that the meaning of an experience is not self-evident.
The most steady, the most self-sufficient nature depends, more than it knows, on its few chosen stimuli.
The approbation of others is a stimulus of which one must sometimes be wary. The feeling of one's own strength makes one modest.
It can get boring. Not the playing the songs necessarily, or doing the clothes. You know, you need stimulus.
If, if more stimulus means more tax cuts to small businesses, if, if more stimulus means middle class tax cuts, then I'm for it.
It's enough just to speak when spoken to, to give some minimal reaction to a stimulus. But to actually be the stimulus doesn't even occur to me.
Collect stimulus, draw them. Focus, find out as much as you can. Stimulate yourself.
Giving someone a one-time stimulus check, or a one-time tax cut that expires doesn't allow the predictability that business needs.
The jazz band's chief stimulus, of course, was the rise of the negro 'blues' and their exploitation by the negro song-writer, W. C. Handy.
A response is not just a re-action, a protest, as it were, against being disturbed; it is, as the word indicates, an answer. It meets the stimulus, and corresponds with it.
The failed stimulus, along with Obamacare's long list of failures, show what happens when Congress passes laws in a rush.
At college I'd seen my dead frog's limbs twitch under some applied stimulus or other - seen, but hadn't believed. Didn't dream of thinking beyond or around what I saw.
Integrity in the Moment of Choice: Quality of life depends on what happens in the space between stimulus and response.
Instead of receiving the help that she had hoped for, Mr. Cain instead decided to provide her with his idea of a stimulus package.
Sometimes I feel a strange exhilaration up here which seems to come from something beyond the mere stimulus of flying.