Stimulus Quotes

Our flesh shrinks from what it dreads and responds to the stimulus of what it desires by a purely reflex action of the nervous system. Our eyelid closes before we are aware that the fly is about to enter our eye.

For every dollar that is spent on the (boondoggle) bridge a dollar will be taken away from taxpayers. If the bridge costs $1,000,000 the taxpayers will lose $1,000, 000. They will have that much taken away from them which they would otherwise have spent on the things they needed most.

When there is silence, Give your voice. When there is darkness, Shine your light. When there is desperation, Offer hope.

Tim Fargo

The basic stimulus to the intelligence is doubt, a feeling that the meaning of an experience is not self-evident.

Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.

Viktor E. Frankl

A person living in everyone else's style reacts only to stimulus