Stimulus Quotes

• Defeat should never be a source of discouragement but rather a fresh stimulus.

  Robert South

  Motivation, Failure, Defeat

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• 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.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Happiness, Peace, Freedom

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• Employees are a company's greatest asset - they're your competitive advantage. You want to attract and retain the best; provide them with encouragement, stimulus, and make them feel that they are an integral part of the company's mission.

  Anne M. Mulcahy

  Encouragement, Want, Advantage

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• There is no stimulus like that which comes from the consciousness of knowing that others believe in us.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Motivational, Believe, Knowing

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• I am content with nothing, restless and ambitious... and I despise myself for the vanity, which formed half the stimulus to my exertions. Oh would that I were one of those plodding wise fools who having once set their hand to the plough go on nothing doubting.

  Thomas Huxley

  Wise, Thinking, Vanity

  "Huxley: From Devil's Disciple to Evolution's High Priest". Book by Adrian Desmond (p. 84), 1997.

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• Being inexhaustible, life and nature are a constant stimulus for a creative mind.

  Hans Hofmann

  Nature, Creative, Mind

  "Hans Hofmann". Book by Cynthia Goodman, p. 103, 1986.

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• Attention is riveted on what is tangible, useful, instantly available; the stimulus for deeper thought and reflection may be lacking. Yet human beings have a vital need for time and inner quiet to ponder and examine life and its mysteries... Understanding and wisdom are the fruit of a contemplative eye upon the world, and do not come from a mere accumulation of facts, no matter how interesting.

  Pope John Paul II

  Eye, Reflection, Interesting

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• It is easy enough to arouse in a listener a desire for what is honorable; for in every one of us nature has laid the foundations or sown the seeds of the virtues. We are born to them all, all of us, and when a person comes along with the necessary stimulus, then those qualities of the personality are awakened, so to speak, from their slumber.

  Seneca the Younger

  Character, Personality, Desire

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• Some people ask who they are and expect their feelings to tell them. But feelings are flickering flames that fade after every fitful stimulus. Some people ask who they are and expect their achievements to tell them. But the things we accomplish always leave a core of character unrevealed. Some people ask who they are and expect visions of their ideal self to tell them. But our visions can only tell us what we want to be, not what we are

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Character, Self, Flames

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• To obtain an assured favorable response from people, it is better to offer them something for their stomachs instead of their brains.

  Albert Einstein

  Witty, Offering, People

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.187, Princeton University Press

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• Within the U.S., the Obama presidency will be mainly measured by the success or failure of his economic policies. And here, I fear, the monstrous stimulus package with which this administration stumbled out of the gate will prove to be Obama's Waterloo.

  Camille Paglia

  Administration, Economic, Prove

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• We need some imaginative stimulus, some not impossible ideal such as may shape vague hope, and transform it into effective desire, to carry us year after year, without disgust, through the routine-work which is so large a part of life.

  Walter Pater

  Routine Work, Years, Desire

  Walter Pater (2006). “Marius the Epicurean: Easyread Large Edition”, p.233, ReadHowYouWant.com

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

  Stephen Covey

  Integrity, Space, Choices

  "First Things First: To Live, to Love, to Learn, to Leave a Legacy". Book by Stephen Covey, A. Roger Merrill, and Rebecca R. Merrill, 1994.

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• We are product of neither nature nor nurture; we are a product of choice, because there is always a space between stimulus and response. As we wisely exercise our power to choose based on principles, the space will become larger.

  Stephen Covey

  Exercise, Space, Choices

  Stephen R. Covey (2013). “The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness”, p.62, Simon and Schuster

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• Preparation for war is a constant stimulus to suspicion and ill will.

  James Monroe

  War, Patriotic, Ill Will

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• Death is really a great blessing for humanity, without it there could be no real progress. People who lived for ever would not only hamper and discourage the young, but they would themselves lack sufficient stimulus to be creative.

  Alfred Adler

  Real, Creativity, Blessing

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• Of what use, however, is a general certainty that an insect will not walk with his head hindmost, when what you need to know is the play of inward stimulus that sends him hither and thither in a network of possible paths?

  George Eliot

  Play, Needs, Inward

  George Eliot (2016). “Daniel Deronda: Top Novelist Focus”, p.243, 谷月社

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• In a person who is open to experience each stimulus is freely relayed through the nervous system, without being distorted by any process of defensiveness.

  Carl Rogers

  Nervous, Process, Congruence

  Carl Ransom Rogers (1995). “On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy”, p.353, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• After the $700 billion bailout, the trillion-dollar stimulus, and the massive budget bill with over 9,000 earmarks, many of you implored Washington to please stop spending money that we don't have. But instead of cutting, we saw an unprecedented explosion of government spending and debt. It was unlike anything we've ever seen before in the history of the country.

  Michele Bachmann

  Country, Cutting, Government

  Michele Bachmann's response to State of the Union, www.cnn.com. January 26, 2011.

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• Death is what takes place within us when we look upon others not as gift, blessing, or stimulus but as threat, danger, competition.

  Dorothee Solle

  Death, Fear, Blessing

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• ... the greatest menace to our capacity for contemplation is the incessant fabrication of tawdry empty stimuli which kill the receptivity of the soul.

  Josef Pieper

  Philosophy, Thinking, Soul

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

  Jerome Bruner

  Indifferent, Organisms

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• Single cells analyze thousands of stimuli from the microenvironment they inhabit. The more awareness an organism has of its environment, the better its chances for survival. When cells band together they increase their awareness exponentially. Division of labor among the cells in the community offers an additional survival advantage. The efficiency it enables more cells to live on less. Evolution is based on an instructive, cooperative interaction among organisms and their environment enables life forms to survive and evolve in a dynamic world.

  Bruce H. Lipton

  Teamwork, Cells, Division Of Labor

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• Drawing general conclusions about your main weaknesses can provide a great stimulus to further growth.

  Alexander Kotov

  Learning, Drawing, Growth

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• Any so-called stimulus program is a ruse. The government can increase its spending only by reducing private spending equivalently.

  Richard Wagner

  Government, Program, Increase

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