#stimuli

Sensorial perception, for example, certainly occurs with greater or less accuracy according to the degree of interest; it is constantly given other directions by the change of external stimuli and by ideas. ↗

— Hermann Ebbinghaus

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In the perception of the incongruous stimuli, the recognition process is temporarily thwarted and exhibits characteristics which are generally not observable in the recognition of more conventional stimuli. ↗

— Jerome Bruner

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Fill you mind with the meaningless stimuli of a world preoccupied with meaningless things, and it will not be easy to feel peace in your heart. ↗

— Marianne Williamson

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For the metropolis presents the peculiar conditions which are revealed to us as the opportunities and the stimuli for the development of both these ways of allocating roles to men. ↗

— Georg Simmel

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The psychological basis of the metropolitan type of individuality consists in the intensification of nervous stimulation which results from the swift and uninterrupted change of outer and inner stimuli. ↗

— Georg Simmel

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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

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

— Jerome Bruner

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Each one of us interprets various stimuli according to our own personal sensibility. ↗

— Stefano Gabbana

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People try to look for deep meanings in my work. I want to say, 'They're just cartoons, folks. You laugh or you don't.' Gee, I sound shallow. But I don't react to current events or other stimuli. I don't read or watch TV to get ideas. My work is basically sitting down at the drawing table and getting silly. ↗

— Gary Larson

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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 P. Muller

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