#stimulation

The making of an Atheist implies a mental stimulation and training which brings into play the primary factors of social progress. ↗

— Joseph McCabe

#brings #factors #implies #into #making

Chivalry, stimulating conversations, everything is said to be a lost art nowadays. But nothing is a lost art, unless it’s a sunken statue—in a river of lava. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#chivalry #conversations #stimulation #art

The loss of these tastes [for poetry and music] is a loss of happiness, and may possibly be injurious to the intellect, and more probably to the moral character, by enfeebling the emotional part of our nature. ↗

— Charles Darwin

#character-building #emotions #intellect #music #poetry

There is more refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest, than in all the alcohol ever distilled. ↗

— Ovid

#distilled #even #ever #more #nap

By the time they are 4 years old, children from poor families have heard 32 million fewer words than children with professional parents. ↗

— Betty Hart

#stimulation #vocabulary #education

The dominant theory coming out of Hollywood is that peoples' attention spans are getting shorter and shorter and they need more stimulation. ↗

— Brian Eno

#attention spans #coming #dominant #getting #hollywood

Normal people have an incredible lack of empathy. They have good emotional empathy, but they don't have much empathy for the autistic kid who is screaming at the baseball game because he can't stand the sensory overload. Or the autistic kid having a meltdown in the school cafeteria because there's too much stimulation. ↗

— Temple Grandin

#ball game #baseball #baseball game #because #emotional

Many artists and writers have used cannabis for creative stimulation - from the writers of the world's religious masterpieces to our most irreverent satirists. ↗

— Jack Herer

#creative #irreverent #many #masterpieces #most

I have so much satisfaction in my life. I have a beautiful wife and the great stimulation of an interesting career. I'm the most happy fellow that I know. ↗

— Brendan Fraser

#beautiful wife #career #fellow #great #happy

Our success was mainly due to the fact that we stimulated the nerves of animals that easily stood on their own feet and were not subjected to any painful stimulus either during or immediately before stimulation of their nerves. ↗

— Ivan Pavlov

#before #due #during #easily #either