Stimulus Quotes

Washington's insatiable desire to spend our children's inheritance on failed stimulus plans and other misguided economic theories have given record debt and left us with far too many unemployed.

I think stimulus money is an absolute mistake.

Inactivity and deprivation of all accustomed stimulus is not rest; it is a preparation for the tomb

Integrity in the Moment of Choice: Quality of life depends on what happens in the space between stimulus and response.

Nobility of birth does not always insure a corresponding unity of mind; if it did, it would always act as a stimulus to noble actions; but it sometimes acts as a clog rather than a spur.

What happened during the minutes before? That's the realm of sensory stimuli of the nervous system.

I've lived a life which has been pretty much full up with ambition, ideas, stimulus, creativity, some negativity which I try and avoid.

The human intellect owes its superiority over that of the lower animals in great measure to the stimulus which alcohol has given imagination.

Riches are oftener an impediment than a stimulus to action; and in many cases they are quite as much a misfortune as a blessing.

Part of the reason we're all committed to coordinated stimulus is we want to stimulate the global economy. We're in a global economy, not just our national economies.p

Feeling, in the broad sense of whatever is felt in any way, as sensory stimulus or inward tension, pain, emotion or intent, is the mark of mentality.

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.

The great failure in education, much of the time, is the lack of excitement and stimulus

Stimuli, however, do not act upon an indifferent organism.

Visit your local supermarket or retail chain. You'll experience a lot of visual stimulus, but it's unlikely that your other senses will encounter any compelling messages.

Between stimulus and response, there is a space, and when you take time to pray or make a cuppa, you don't have to live in reaction to a situation.

Every stimulus becomes an opportunity to find fresh ways to express your personal vision.

Where as you go into playing something like Ulysses [on Black Panther], you go - I'm going to have this haircut and this cloth, you draw from different stimulus.

When I supported the stimulus package, I knew that it would not be popular with the Republican Party.

When you talk about the stimulus package, you can ask 1,000 different people and they - you will have 1,000 different opinions of what is the ideal stimulus package.

I have never seen people who could do real work except under the stimulus of encouragement and enthusiasm and the approval of the people for whom they are working.

What do you think a stimulus is? It’s spending - that's the whole point! Seriously.

It's the cross-training that's key. It doesn't let your body adapt to one stimulus too much and it keeps your workouts exciting.

The Obama 'stimulus' plan is a $1 trillion dollar gamble more suited to Las Vegas than Washington.

For just a few dollars registration, you got temporary possession of a good piece of land. Live on it for five years, build a house, and farm it, and it was yours. What a brilliant economic stimulus!

The word book acted as a transient stimulus

The very first email I got [was] from a women's group saying 'We don't want this stimulus package to just create jobs for burly men.'

As a former member of President Obama's economic team, I have a soft spot for the fiscal stimulus legislation he signed just a month after his inauguration.

All week Senate will be on the Stimulus/Porkulus Bill. Tune in C SPAN

In the real world, banks hang onto their money for fear of making bad loans, no matter how many bailouts or stimulus packages Washington passes.

An intelligent class can scarce ever be, as a class, vicious, and never, as a class, indolent. The excited mental activity operates as a counterpoise to the stimulus of sense and appetite.

Such is the force of Happiness-- The Least can lift a ton Assisted by its stimulus.

Experiment has a stimulus which withers its fear.

In human affairs, the best stimulus for running ahead is to have something we must run from.

Every author knows what a stimulus it is to have an understanding publisher.

Sexual pleasure, wisely used and not abused, may prove the stimulus and liberator of our finest and most exalted activities.

I am against all machines. It's no wonder that so many Americans go on dope when they have no other cultural stimulus than a television.

In general, every stimulus directs activity. It does not simply excite it or stir it up, but directs it toward an object.

Adequate control means that the successive acts are brought into a continuous order; each act not only meets its immediate stimulus but helps the acts which follow.

If we don't get this economy going, the numbers that represent this stimulus package are going to be small compared to the loss of revenue to the federal government for our economy.

There's no doubt that [tax cuts] act as a stimulus. How could they not, in a sense? You're giving cash back to households.

Though love is instinctive, it cannot develop without a certain stimulus and use.

I supported the stimulus package.

Small businesses are the economic drivers of our country, providing the stimulus our communities need.

Japan has introduced fiscal stimulus five times in the past seven or eight years and each time it's been a failure and that's not a surprise. Fiscal stimulus is not stimulating in and of itself.

Tiger Woods and John Edwards had a better year than the stimulus bill.

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

Any stimulus package amounts to taking money from the pockets of some Americans and placing it in the pockets of others who have better political connections.

The present Stimulus Bill sets up the equivalent commission in the United States similar to that which is in England.

The writer gleans wind scraps; he listens wherever he can. Each day is full of instances; what counts, as with all stimuli, is the sympathetic response.