Arousal Quotes - Page 2

• I have never been sexually aroused by a man. But I have yet to kiss Johnny Depp, so you never know.

  Dave Navarro

  Kissing, Men, Sexually

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Boys' brains are being digitally rewired for change, novelty, excitement and constant arousal. That means they're totally out of sync in traditional classes, which are analog, static, interactively passive.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Motivation, Inspiration, Mean

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• Play is a subset of voluntary behaviour involving a selective mechanism which reverses the usual contingencies of power so as to permit the subject a controllable and dialectical simulation of the moderately unmastered arousals and regulations of everyday life, in a way that is alternatively vivifying and euphoric.

  Brian Sutton-Smith

  Play, Everyday, Usual

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• As a feminine cocreator, having lived through the arc of evolution from 1929 to the present, I offer encouragement and vocational arousal to all!

  Barbara Marx Hubbard

  Encouragement, Evolution, Feminine

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• Perceived self-efficacy in coping with potential threats leads people to approach such situations anxiously, and experience of disruptive arousal may further lower their sense of efficacy that they will be able to perform skillfully

  Albert Bandura

  Self, People, May

  Albert Bandura (1986). “Social foundations of thought and action: a social cognitive theory”, Prentice Hall

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• As a general rule, moderate levels of arousal facilitate deployment of skills, whereas high arousal disrupts it. This is especially true of complex activities requiring intricate organization of behavior

  Albert Bandura

  Skills, Organization, Deployment

  Albert Bandura (1986). “Social foundations of thought and action: a social cognitive theory”, Prentice Hall

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• So it is that a new politics centers around the arousal of that power, using prayer and meditation to create a force field of transformation.

  Marianne Williamson

  Prayer, Force Fields, Meditation

  Marianne Williamson (2014). “Healing the Soul of America: Reclaiming Our Voices as Spiritual Citizens”, p.209, Simon and Schuster

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• There's confusional arousals, there are states in deeper sleep that can happen where people will go and they'll disappear and they'll take on some other persona. They'll commit some crime, but it's all when they are in a very deep stage of sleep. So you really need to have a very thorough evaluation.

  Shelby Harris

  Sleep, People, Needs

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• A sleeping man holds in a circle around him the thread of the hours, the order of years and of worlds. He consults them instinctively upon awaking and in one second reads in them the point of the earth that he occupies, the time past until his arousal; but their ranks can be mingled or broken.

  Marcel Proust

  Time, Sleep, Men

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