Quotes for All
The very same brain centers that interpret and feel physical pain also become activated during experiences of emotional rejection. In brain scans, they light up in response to social ostracism, just as they would when triggered by physically harmful stimuli. When people speak of feeling hurt or of having emotional pain, they are not being … Read more
Man is largely a creature of habit, and many of his activities are more or less automatic reflexes from the stimuli of his environment. G. Stanley Hall
Experiment has a stimulus which withers its fear. Emily Dickinson
Such is the force of Happiness– The Least can lift a ton Assisted by its stimulus. Emily Dickinson
There is silver blue, sky blue and thunder blue. Every colour holds within it a soul, which makes me happy or repels me, and which acts as a stimulus. To a person who has no art in him, colours are colours, tones tones…and that is all. All their consequences for the human spirit, which range … Read more
I think if you asked people \”what’s the biggest problem in your life?\” They’d say, \”I just don’t have time for anything!\” And at our fingertips, if it isn’t e-mail, it’s our Blackberry, and it’s our iPods and telephones – we never stop. We never take those moments to stop the stimulus to find out … Read more
Big banks churn out page after page of incomprehensible fine print to obscure the cost and risks of checking accounts, credit cards, mortgages and other financial products. The result is that consumers can’t make direct product comparisons, markets aren’t competitive, and costs are higher. If the playing field is leveled and the broken market fixed, … Read more
The most steady, the most self-sufficient nature depends, more than it knows, on its few chosen stimuli. Elizabeth Bowen
The strife of politics tends to unsettle the calmest understanding, and ulcerate the most benevolent heart. There are no bigotries or absurdities too gross for parties to create or adopt under the stimulus of political passions. Edwin Percy Whipple
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 … Read more