#stimulant

Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant - the digitalis of failure. ↗

— Elbert Hubbard

#heart #kind #optimism #stimulant

If a man cannot do brain work without stimulants of any kind, he had better turn to hand work it is an indication on Nature's part that she did not mean him to be a head worker. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#better #brain #cannot #did #had

Advertising as the printed form of selling would seem... ultimately to be justified in so far as it serves as a means of increasing legitimate human wants, as an agency of fair and economic competition in the distribution of goods, and as a stimulant to social progress. ↗

— Daniel Starch

#agency #competition #distribution #economic #fair

Enthusiasms, like stimulants, are often affected by people with small mental ballast. ↗

— Minna Antrim

#ballast #enthusiasms #like #mental #often

I always keep a supply of stimulant handy in case I see a snake, which I also keep handy. ↗

— W. C. Fields

#always #case #handy #i #i always

The human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants; and he must have a very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this. ↗

— William Wordsworth

#beauty #capable #dignity #does #excitement

It was more that his career was going down again and he was tired of the songs. He was tired of the routine. And there was a point where he just kind of gave up. He couldn't face being 40. And he resorted to stimulants. There's a dark side there, a really dark side. ↗

— Priscilla Presley

#being #career #dark #dark side #down

If men had to do their vile work without the assistance of woman and the stimulant of strong drink they would be obliged to be more divine and less brutal. ↗

— Caroline Nichols Churchill

#brutal #divine #drink #had #less

Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author’s words reverberating in your head. ↗

— Paul Auster

#choice #comfort #comsolation #escape #pleasure

Nicotine is both a stimulant and a depressant, so that can make one feel quite imbalanced. ↗

— Christy Turlington

#feel #make #nicotine #quite #stimulant