Quotes About Excitation

#1. Excitation of the instinct of appropriation at the sight of the weak: it is to be remembered, however, that " strong " and " weak " are relative conceptions.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#2. After earning my Ph.D., I stayed at the Max-Planck Institute as a postdoc, working on laser excitation of Rydberg states of triatomic hydrogen and helium hydride. I also succeeded in analyzing all the emission spectra of helium hydride, which I had discovered during my Ph.D.

Wolfgang Ketterle

#3. That a strong stimulus to such an afferent nerve, exciting most or all of its fibres, should in regard to a given muscle develop inhibition and excitation concurrently is not surprising.

Charles Scott Sherrington

#4. New york provides not only a continuing excitation but also a spectacle that is continuing.

E.B. White

#5. History teaches us to beware of the excitation of the liberated and the injustices that often accompany their righteous thirst for justice.

Wole Soyinka

#6. Let us dare, then, to make the following hypothesis: the raw materials of today's production process are excitation, erection, ejaculation, and pleasure and feelings of self-satisfaction, omnipotent control, and total destruction.

Paul B. Preciado

#7. Existence of an excited state is not a prerequisite for the production of inhibition; inhibition can exist apart from excitation no less than, when called forth against an excitation already in progress, it can suppress or moderate it.

Charles Scott Sherrington

#8. The bold display of our unattractive parts is an effective substitute for beauty since it duplicates beauty's principal effects, namely the excitation of admiration, charm, and envy in the beholder, who is moved to wish that they too could carry their own defects with the same ease.

Agona Apell

#9. Documentary photography has amassed mountains of evidence. And yet ... the genre has simultaneously contributed much to spectacle, to retinal excitation, to voyeurism, to terror, envy and nostalgia, and only a little to the critical understanding of the social world.

Allan Sekula

#10. The goal of the Transcendental Meditation technique is the state of enlightenment. This means we experience that inner calmness, that quiet state of least excitation, even when we are dynamically busy.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

#11. Natural or artificial stimulation of nerves gives rise to a process of progressive excitation in them, leading to a response in the effector organ of the nerves concerned.

Otto Loewi

#12. The state of least excitation of consciousness is the field of all possibilities.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

#13. There is to my mind no doubt that the concept of beautiful had its roots in sexual excitation and that its original meaning was sexually stimulating.

Sigmund Freud

#14. The facts which have caused us to believe in the dominance of the pleasure principle in mental life also find expression in the hypothesis that the mental apparatus endeavours to keep the quantity of excitation present in it as low as possible or at least to keep it constant.

Sigmund Freud

#15. Look directly into every mirror. Realize our reflection is the first sentence to a story, and our story starts: We were here.

Shane Koyczan

#16. Make it a point to be around those with positive energy - people who want what's best for you, people who understand your goals and priorities.

Rebecca Lobo

#17. Mr. Cuervo and I - and all of his Mexican cousins are no longer on speaking terms

K.A. Tucker

#18. A bicycle?" Amos leaned on the breakfast bar. "Sure. They don't need fuel, they don't get sick. Most of the repairs, you can handle on your own. You're looking for post-apocalyptic transportation, bikes are the way to go.

James S.A. Corey

#19. Even back in its colonial days, America developed a reputation as a safe harbor for people with unusual or radical religious beliefs.

Mitch Horowitz

#20. How wonderful it must be, I thought, to be able to just spread your wings whenever you like without someone following you around trying to swat you out of the sky.

Gina Holmes

#21. Rockefeller once explained the secret of success. 'Get up early, work late - and strike oil.'

Joey Adams

#22. What does it matter if, by chance, a little vile blood be spilled?

Jean Racine

#23. Borrowing a hammer from Walker Lauren, she pounded the tickets into the office door with a nail. Hawke, passing by, helpfully held the tickets in place while she hammered the nail. He didn't say a word, his expression so bland it was clear he was highly amused.

Nalini Singh

#24. People who have always gone right don't know half as much about the nature and ways of going right as those do who have gone wrong.

Thomas Hardy

#25. Days pass, time ticks away, seconds click forward like dominoes toppling in a line.

Lauren Oliver

#26. I trust every single person around me, and if I feel even a whiff of uncertainty I won't have that person around me.

Leona Lewis

#27. An astounding thing is that, almost every single week, I have met someone from my past.

Michael Aspel

#28. We suffer more in imagination than in reality.

Seneca The Younger

#29. Don't worry, Da. People point guns at each other all the time in Ketterdam. It's basically a handshake.

Leigh Bardugo