Stimulus Quotes - Page 14

• If a child finds no stimuli for the activities which would contribute to his development, he is attracted simply to 'things' and desires to posses them.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Desire, Development

  "The Secret of Childhood" by Maria Montessori, Ch. 23, 1936.

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• 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.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  People, Different Opinions, Asks

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The advance planning and sense stimuli employed to capture a $10 million cigarette or soap market are nothing compared to the brainwashing and propaganda blitzes used to ensure control of the largest cash market in the world: the Executive Branch of the United States Government.

  Phyllis Schlafly

  Government, Political, United States

  PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY (1964). “A CHOICE NOT AN ECHO”

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• Let me just try to give you sort of the intuitive one here on the stimulus funds. If you have a two-person economy - let's imagine we have two farms, and that's the whole world, just two farms. If one of those farmers gets unemployment benefits, who do you think pays for him? Am I going way over your heads today?

  Arthur Laffer

  Thinking, Two, Giving

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• I travel a lot on foreign policy, as you know. I'm in Europe a lot. I travelled over a million miles as vice president. They didn't do stimulus. Look where they are. Come on. I mean, this is like, I just get so frustrated. Like come on.

  Joe Biden

  Mean, Europe, Frustrated

  Interview with Rachel Maddow, www.msnbc.com. February 18, 2016.

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• Nature learns and changes as a result of stimuli, and certain habitats of nature will be formed that weren't there before. That's how I look at reality.

  David Wolfe

  Reality, Looks, Habitat

  "World authority on raw foods, superfoods and natural healing". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. September 1, 2013.

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• 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.

  Umberto Eco

  Reflection, Hypnosis, Civilization

  "Can Television Teach?". Screen Education, 1979.

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• Decisive inventions and discoveries always are initiated by an intellectual or moral stimulus as their actual motivating force, but, usually, the final impetus to human action is given by material impulses ... merchants stood as a driving force behind the heroes of the age of discovery; this first heroic impulse to conquer the world emanated from very mortal forces

  Stefan Zweig

  Hero, Discovery, Conquer The World

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• But it has also enabled me to find my feet as a lecturer and a reader of my own plays to audiences who like to hear them; and that experience of immediate appreciation gives greater pleasure and more stimulus towards further activity than even the most laudatory of reviews.

  Laurence Housman

  Appreciation, Play, Feet

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• Men in general are too material and do not make enough human contacts. If we search for the fundamentals which actually motivate us we will find that they come under four headings: love, money, adventure and religion. It is to some of them that we always owe that big urge which pushes us onward. Men who crush these impulses and settle down to everyday routine are bound to sink into mediocrity. No man is a complete unit of himself; he needs the contact, the stimulus and the driving power which is generated by his contact with other men, their ideas, and constantly changing scenes.

  Edward S. Jordan

  Love, Crush, Adventure

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• Remember the last show you saw that got a standing ovation? Now try to think of one that had the audience on its feet at intermission. They stepped, strutted, stomped, romped, ran rung, hung, flung, flew, threw and played their way through 16 numbers (17 if you count the percussion encore in the lobby that stopped the departing crowd in its collective tracks). It was Blast! and it was fantastic. That said, the show is a cacophony of color and creativity a musical montage offering nearly two hours of stimuli.

  Jan Perry

  Creativity, Thinking, Feet

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

  Melissa Bean

  Country, Community, Needs

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• Every characteristic absence of spirituality, every piece of common vulgarity, is due to an inability to resist a stimulus - you have to react, you follow every impulse.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Vulgarity Is, Inability, Pieces

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Aaron Ridley, Judith Norman (2005). “Nietzsche: The Anti-Christ, Ecce Homo, Twilight of the Idols: And Other Writings”, p.190, Cambridge University Press

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• The sense organs experience the external light, sound, etc. with difficulty; the different sense organs only have a so-called specific receptivity for particular stimuli.

  Johannes Peter Muller

  Light, Sound, Different

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• The failed stimulus, along with Obamacare's long list of failures, show what happens when Congress passes laws in a rush.

  John Barrasso

  Law, Obamacare, Long

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• Government spending cannot create additional jobs. If the government provides the funds required by taxing the citizens or by borrowing from the public, it abolishes on the one hand as many jobs as it creates on the other.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Jobs, Thinking, Government

  "Planned Chaos". Book by Ludwig von Mises, 1947.

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• Well, the infrastructure part of the stimulus has worked. There's absolutely no question about it. We can demonstrate in Pennsylvania and other states around the union how it's produced good, paying jobs both on the construction sites and back in American factories. It has worked.

  Ed Rendell

  Jobs, Pennsylvania, Unions

  "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. August 1, 2010.

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• Sometimes I feel a strange exhilaration up here which seems to come from something beyond the mere stimulus of flying.

  Guy Murchie

  Flying, Exhilaration, Strange

  Guy Murchie (2016). “Song of the Sky”, p.299, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• It was over in a blink of an eye, that moment when aviation stirred the modern imagination. Aviation was transformed from recklessness to routine in Lindbergh's lifetime. Today the riskiest part of air travel is the drive to the airport, and the airlines use a barrage of stimuli to protect passengers from ennui.

  George Will

  Eye, Airports, Imagination

  George F. Will (1978). “The pursuit of happiness, and other sobering thoughts”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Besides, all evil is relative. Something that is evil at one level of evolution can be good at an earlier stage because it provides the essential stimulus for development. But you want to judge everything by your own standards. You have reached a comparatively high level and so you see what you fight against as evil. Just think of the others, those who are at an earlier stage of development. Do not bar them from the path toward progress and evolution.

  P.D. Ouspensky

  Fighting, Thinking, Evil

  P. D. Ouspensky (1988). “Talks With a Devil”, p.211, Library of Alexandria

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• It is true that the reluctance to abstain from animal food, in those who have been long accustomed to its stimulus, is so great in some persons of weak minds, as to be scarcely overcome; but this is far from bringing any argument in its favour

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Animal, Long, Mind

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats (1829). “The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats: Complete in One Volume”

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• [The stimulus bill funds] a bureaucratic structure for the government to begin rationing the health care of the American people. They can then lead a national, populist, grassroots movement to force Congress to pass the bill, and President Obama to sign it, educating the public along way about the intractable problems of socialized medicine.

  Peter Ferrara

  Medicine, Government, People

  "Repeal Health Care Fascism". spectator.org. February 25, 2009.

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• 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.

  Judd Gregg

  Loss, Government, Numbers

  "The Call" with Trish Regan, www.cnbc.com. February 9, 2009.

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• Real economic stimulus comes from real investment.

  Tim Bishop

  Real, Investment, Economic

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• I come from a very small island which is packed with people. I mean, jam-packed with people. I've lived a life which has been pretty much full up with ambition, ideas, stimulus, creativity, some negativity, which I try to avoid. Austin is a great sort of stepping-off point, if you like. I'm from a temperate climate.

  Robert Plant

  Creativity, Ambition, Mean

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 25, 2013.

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