Physiological Response Quotes

#1. I wouldn't say that I'm actually trying to cause chills in the audience, but certainly my goal is to, at the very least, effect a physiological response - at the most, to effect some sort of state change, ideally, in the audience.

Eric Whitacre

#2. The physical act of meditating by closing one's eyes and slowing down the speed of internal thoughts - especially worrisome thinking - results in a physiological response that is well documented in the scientific literature.

Tim McCarthy

#3. Humor is an almost physiological response to fear.

Kurt Vonnegut

#4. I keep losing and regaining my equilibrium, which is the basic plot of all popular fiction. And I myself am a work of fiction.

Kurt Vonnegut

#5. It takes 90 seconds from the time we have a thought that is going to stimulate an emotional response. When we have an emotional response it results in a physiological dumpage into our bloodstream. It flushes through and out of our body in less than 90 seconds.

Jill Bolte Taylor

#6. When I was growing up in the '70s and '80s, by the time you were 16, you were kind of expected to be an adult. By the time we were 16 and able to drive, certainly by 17 or 18 and into college, you just had very little interaction with your parents.

Joe Meno

#7. Gerry Dawes, I can't thank you enough for opening up Spain to me.

Michael Chiarello

#8. Women with body image or eating disorders are not a special category; [they're] just more extreme in their response to a culture that emphasizes thinness and impossible standards of appearance for women instead of individuality and health.

Gloria Steinem

#9. There are bones
waiting for names in the graveyards.
Even the sun above us is dying, one
landed repetition of light at a time.

Cecilia Llompart

#10. Of course I talk to myself.
Sometimes, I need expert advice!

Edward Henheffer

#11. Once you realize that the way you exist right now is not enough, that there is something more, your spiritual process has already begun.

Jaggi Vasudev

#12. Pain must be a necessary ingredient of emotional involvement, either that or else I never manage to get it right.

Stephen Williams

#13. Most people regard getting their way as a matter of simple justice.

Mason Cooley

#14. I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.

Joseph Conrad

#15. You don't have to be religious to have a soul; everybody has one. You don't have to be religious to perfect your soul; I have found saintliness in avowed atheists.

Harold S. Kushner

#16. I never think of this business as fun. I don't know why. I think I've actually said something about it being fun, but I don't think of it that way. It's not fun, doing it. It's joyful, it's passionate, it's rewarding, it's a pursuit of truth, but I don't think of it as fun. It's not a game.

Donald Sutherland

#17. Rather than admire the mediocre great men over whom passersby nudge each other in awe, I venerate the young, unknown geniuses who die in their teens, their souls shattered - delicate, phosphorescent glowworms that one must see to know they really did exist.

Knut Hamsun

#18. Garfield is my spirit animal.

Henry Zebrowski