Stimulating Quotes

#1. Working with so many people from all over the world is extremely enriching and stimulating.

Fabiola Gianotti

#2. It depends. When it's the right scenario, it's just as stimulating and just as exciting for me. It's just a question of finding a piece of material that lights a fire under you.

Andy Garcia

#3. Sacred writings are beneficial in stimulating desire for inward realization, if one stanza at a time is slowly assimilated. Continual intellectual study results in vanity and the false satisfaction of an undigested knowledge." Sri

Paramahansa Yogananda

#4. It takes the same effort to dream small or dream big. Dream big!

Mani Maran

#5. A garlic caress is stimulating. A garlic excess soporific.

Curnonsky

#6. Miss Gregory took nearly everything. Her clothes. New girls don't have the privilege of wearing their own clothes. Her books. Socrates, Plato, Shakespeare? Much too stimulating. No wonder you have Ideas. Certainly, you don't wish to become a bluestocking!

Suzanne Lazear

#7. Within the last fifty years, the extraordinary growth of every department of physical science has spread among us mental food of so nutritious and stimulating a character that a new ecdysis seems imminent.

Thomas Huxley

#8. Some critics are stimulating in that they make you realise how you could do better, and those are valued.

Francis Ford Coppola

#9. There are some people who read too much: the bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as other men are drunk on whiskey or religion. They wander through this most diverting and stimulating of worlds in a haze, seeing nothing and hearing nothing.

H.L. Mencken

#10. I love doing different things where, for a little while, I can focus on standup then sketch writing, then performing, then directing a video. That, to me, is stimulating.

Kyle Dunnigan

#11. The time I have already spent at Harvard has been a stimulating experience, and I look forward to developing my relationship and activities with the students, faculty and friends of the Harvard Business School community.

Alex Ferguson

#12. Everyday life is a stimulating mixture of order and haphazardry. The sun rises and sets on schedule but the wind bloweth where it listeth.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#13. The conscience of America seems to be paralyzed ... We seem to be insensible to the things that are now taking place on motion picture screens and on the news stands that are constantly stimulating our young people.

Billy Graham

#14. I come alive when I'm painting. I like to work in oils and acrylics, and the full sensory engagement and self-expression is very stimulating to me.

Carmen Ejogo

#15. I found it stimulating to study the sciences. It was a side of understanding the universe that I hadn't been exposed to.

Jane Siberry

#16. Denmark and the UK are in agreement that our future prosperity depends on stimulating green growth, and getting off the oil hook.

Chris Huhne

#17. Personally, I've found one of the more stimulating ways of playing in recent times has been to kind of move outside the free improvised area and work with people who are probably improvisers but they have a particular way of working.

Derek Bailey

#18. Still, this was home. There might be prettier places, more exciting places, more stimulating places. But none of them would have the memories or the comfort or the peace of home.

Erin Nicholas

#19. Resisting a task is usually a sign that it's meaningful-which is why it's awakening your fears and stimulating procrastination. You could adopt "Do whatever you're resisting the most" as a philosophy of life.

Oliver Burkeman

#20. The threat and use of violence is stimulating nuclear proliferation along with jihadi terrorism.

Noam Chomsky

#21. Suzanne sat in Roger's chair, staring at the reflection of her dread morning face. Roger browsed his cassette rack. "Do you want calming or stimulating?" he asked her.
Suzanne mulled it over for a few moments. It was a question she had asked herself about men.

Carrie Fisher

#22. The fact is that I find more most men are more open, more generous, and much more stimulating than the majority of females I know.

Marilyn Monroe

#23. The classical music is soothing and stimulating, good for thinking.

Rolonda Watts

#24. Artists need some kind of stimulating experience a lot of times, which crystallizes when you sing about it or paint it or sculpt it. You literally mold the experience the way you want. It's therapy.

Erykah Badu

#25. Anyway, that's how it is! Either they obey the law, or they're expelled!! And make sure they wear their veils correctly ... " - "If hair is as stimulating as you say, then you need to shave your moustache!" My father actually said that.

Marjane Satrapi

#26. You can't be a creative thinker if you're not stimulating your mind, just as you can't be an Olympic athlete if you don't train regularly.

Ken Robinson

#27. Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating.

Honore De Balzac

#28. I can assure you, public service is a stimulating, proud and lively enterprise. It is not just a way of life, it is a way to live fully.

Lee H. Hamilton

#29. Removing all stimulation around you is a really positive thing in terms of stimulating your creativity.

Grimes

#30. Perfection, fortunately, is not the only alternative to mediocrity. A more sensible alternative is excellence. Striving for excellence is stimulating and rewarding; striving for perfection
in practically anything
is both neurotic and futile.

Ed Bliss

#31. Churches are healthier and stronger if they assume responsibility both for financing their own programs and for stimulating their members to accept that responsibility.

John M Swomley

#32. I'm just looking as always for something that's stimulating and I hope to find a good story that's a challenge, whether it's big or small. Or that it finds me. I don't have like a career plan. Maybe I should, but I don't.

Viggo Mortensen

#33. She found that books, the well-written ones, had the power to transport her from a world that was sometimes overstressed and over stimulating to a wholly new place of the author's imaginations.

J.N. LaVelle

#34. The terrible part of this looming catastrophe is that people have been working on solutions for years and have developed concrete steps to massively reduce our energy use, while stimulating whole new industries and technologies that are more efficient and affordable.

David Suzuki

#35. An imaginative book renders us much more service at first, by stimulating us through its tropes, than afterward, when we arrive atthe precise sense of the author. I think nothing is of any value in books, excepting the transcendental and extraordinary.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#36. Recent studies show that people who exercise their minds with stimulating activities throughout their entire lives have a 35-40 percent less chance of developing symptoms of dementia.

Mike Rabe

#37. There's a big, wonderful world out there for you. It belongs to you. It's exciting and stimulating and rewarding. Don't cheat yourselves out of this promise.

Nancy Reagan

#38. If you look at the horror genre, that work is all about making people uncomfortable by stimulating our fear of death.

Ottessa Moshfegh

#39. A mystery is the most stimulating force in unleashing the imagination.

Zuzana Licko

#40. Enemies are so stimulating.

Katharine Hepburn

#41. I find value investing to be a stimulating, intellectually challenging, ever changing, and financially rewarding discipline

Seth Klarman

#42. To me ... San Francisco is an ideal city, intellectually stimulating and naturally beautiful. The oceans and forests are close enough to refresh the spirit; the architecture is always exciting.

Ruth Bernhard

#43. I need a stimulating environment to write because my books are driven at 100 miles per hour at a time.

Lee Child

#44. It is stimulating to live in a society that is not standardized or mechanized, and is free from monotony.

R.K. Narayan

#45. Learning is not the consequence of teaching or writing, but rather of thinking ... so a playful, provocative, unclear but stimulating book could actually be more worth your money than a serious, clear book that tells you what to think but doesn't make you think.

Brian D. McLaren

#46. I loved everything that went with rock n' roll. I loved being at the heart of such creativity and being young in such a stimulating and exciting era.

Pattie Boyd

#47. I only surround myself with people who are intellectually stimulating.

Anna Chlumsky

#48. Acting is like roller skating. Once you know how to do it, it is neither stimulating nor exciting.

George Sanders

#49. If our work is stimulating and rewarding, if it pushes us to grow ... we become more valuable human beings.

Jane Fonda

#50. Children born to teens have less supportive and stimulating environments, poorer health, lower cognitive development, and worse educational outcomes. Children of teen mothers are at increased risk of being in foster care and becoming teen parents themselves, thereby repeating the cycle.

Jane Fonda

#51. I'm incredibly fortunate to have met the intelligent, generous, risk-taking, stimulating man to whom I am married. He's really amazing.

Cate Blanchett

#52. And so reader, farewell to Sherlock Holmes! I thank you for your past constancy, and can but hope that some return has been made in the shape of that distraction from the worries of life and stimulating change of thought which can only be found in the fairy kingdom of romance.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#53. Dancing is my number one love. That was my first goal as a child. I would love to do stage, maybe do Chicago. I love being in front of an audience. It's so stimulating. I also love to barbecue.

Carmen Electra

#54. Entrepreneurs' grounded enthusiasm is contagious, stimulating a high level of commitment, confidence, passion, and performance in the people who work for and with them.

Amy Cuddy

#55. 'NYT Opinion' offers our readers what we think are the most stimulating and interesting points of view you can find anywhere.

Andrew Rosenthal

#56. To keep art stimulating, it's important to open it up to new horizons, which includes showing it in unexpected contexts.

Hans Ulrich Obrist

#57. If everyone were not so indolent they would realise that beauty is beauty even when it is irritating and stimulating not only when it is accepted and classic.

Gertrude Stein

#58. Mars is the symbolic and totally stimulating next objective that could so dominate the next century's exploration efforts. From Mars, the resources of all the asteroids will become readily available.

Buzz Aldrin

#59. Research is one of the Nation's very greatest resources and the role of the Federal Government in supporting and stimulating it needs to reexamined.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#60. Rituals are like electrically powered transmitters sending stimulating sparks of electric current or inspirational feelings that connect us to our inner being or soul.

Wes Adamson

#61. A truth that disheartens because it is true is of more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods.

Maurice Maeterlinck

#62. 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

#63. In December 1998, I considered myself an expert on love. I was almost a year into a relationship, one that had grown more slowly than I had wished, but once it flowered it was much more stimulating than any marriage or relationship I had known.

Jane Smiley

#64. The spirit of my home is entirely bound up in a quality of space. I have only the objects I need and nothing more. Empty space in which to think and relax is both stimulating and calming.

John Pawson

#65. My first priority is growing this economy in the long term, and stimulating it in the short term.

Bob Menendez

#66. Coffee has ... expand[ed] humanity's working-day from twelve to a potential twenty-four hours. The tempo, the complexity, the tension of modern life, call for something that can perform the miracle of stimulating brain activity, without evil, habit-forming after-effects.

Margaret Meagher

#67. A word, a smile, and the stranger at your elbow may become an interesting friend. All through life we deny ourselves stimulating fellowship because we are too proud or too afraid to unbend.

Donald C. Peattie

#68. Smell is stimulating. It stirs things up and makes us nostalgic - a wonderful word which literally means 'ache for home' - which serves to inspire new circuits in the brain.

Lyall Watson

#69. Evening: a spotless record, knowledge, stimulating conversation - but he had no love. She had nothing to offer Christ that evening but a terrible record. She was almost assuredly illiterate, and she couldn't talk for crying. But she had love.

Beth Moore

#70. I could have probably been just as successful by not going to college, but it was the most intellectually stimulating environment that I was ever in.

Fabrice Grinda

#71. deconstruction is an attempt to break through hardened structures and traditions for the purpose of reengaging the stimulating, life-giving substance that gave rise to the now-encrusted traditions.[3]

J.R. Daniel Kirk

#72. Life pulls at bewildered humanity in so many ways! Blessed is the woman who makes her life a career of stimulating the courage of others.

Margery Wilson

#73. It's wonderful when music is intellectually stimulating. But ultimately it has to be a visceral experience.

Maya Beiser

#74. In 1970, Dean Robert Ebert offered me the Chair of Pathology at Harvard Medical School. I moved to Harvard because I missed the university environment and, more particularly, the stimulating interaction with the eager, enthusiastic, and unprejudiced young minds of the students and fellows.

Baruj Benacerraf

#75. Over the past two years, the House has passed more than 50 measures focused on stimulating the economy and expanding opportunities for American workers. The tax relief provisions in this package have been an important part of our pro-growth agenda.

Roger Wicker

#76. The right sort of gossip is a charming and stimulating thing. The Odyssey itself is simply glorious gossip, and the same may be said of nearly every tale of mingled fact and legend which has been handed down to us through the ages.

J. E. Buckrose

#77. Few things are as stimulating as other people's calamities observed from a safe distance.

George Will

#78. The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation.

Ray Lyman Wilbur

#79. Do people still shoot at presidents? I thought there were more stimulating targets.' (20)

Don DeLillo

#80. Language has been mobilised and sent into battle; it directs the human carnage of conflict with its enunciation of emotion, stimulating souls to abandon peace.

Daniel S. Fletcher

#81. Politics is a life sentence. It's an obsessive, all-demanding, utterly fascinating, totally committing profession - stimulating, satisfying, stretching.

Michael Heseltine

#82. I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research.

Albert Einstein

#83. The diversity of life is so stimulating for me.

Eduardo Galeano

#84. To stay vigorous, a company needs to provide a stimulating and challenging environment for all these types: the dreamer, the entrepreneur, the professional manager, and the leader. If it doesn't, it risks becoming yet another mediocre corporation.

Howard Schultz

#85. But as a skeptic I am dubious about science as about everything else, unless the scientist is himself a skeptic, and few of them are. The stench of formaldehyde may be as potent as the whiff of incense in stimulating a naturally idolatrous understanding.

Robertson Davies

#86. British researchers found that one smile can generate the same level of brain stimulation as up to 2,000 bars of chocolate. The same study found that smiling is as stimulating as receiving up to 16,000 pounds Sterling in cash. That's like 25 grand a smile.

Ron Gutman

#87. I find it satisfying and intellectually stimulating to work with the intensity, brevity, balance and word play of the short story.

Annie Proulx

#88. Lucid dreaming lets you make use of the dream state that comes to you every night to have a stimulating reality.

Stephen LaBerge

#89. Really, I'm the type of girl, and I know other girls who are the types of girls who it's not about the chain, it's not about the car, not about the house or this, that, and the other that you think are impressing me. It's really the intellect. It's really stimulating my mind.

Keri Hilson

#90. Why does this work? It appears that with various conditions the packs have the effect of stimulating the activity of the lymphatic streams while at the same time enhancing the elimination of toxic substances from the cells locally where the castor oil is applied.

B.A. Anderson

#91. Fertile soil, level plains, easy passage across the mountains, coal, iron, and other metals imbedded in the rocks, and a stimulating climate, all shower their blessings upon man.

Ellsworth Huntington

#92. If you have a strong opponent, a competition is stimulating. I am generally most open to ideas when I have had a bad result. In chess, too, players specialise. This specialty then becomes an entry barrier.

Viswanathan Anand

#93. The loneliness you get by the sea is personal and alive. It doesn't subdue you and make you feel abject. It's stimulating loneliness.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#94. For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying.

Doris Lessing

#95. Love is an incredible thing but we don't know love like we should. Unconditional love we don't know it because if a person stops stimulating us, we stop loving them.

Lauryn Hill

#96. If the Lord is coming soon, is this not a very practical motive for greater missionary effort? I know of no other motive that has been so stimulating to myself.

Hudson Taylor

#97. There are few things more fundamentally encouraging and stimulating than seeing someone else die.

Stanley Kubrick

#98. Like, a song could be really tricky and intricate and be really intellectually stimulating, but I don't think that's the song that that I'm going to throw on 80% of the time. The songs that I really want to listen to are the ones that I can really feel.

Theresa Wayman

#99. Because I write a book a year, I always want to do one other project every year that's stimulating in a different way. It means you can be working but not using up your prose juice, you know?

Denise Mina

#100. An appreciative listener is always stimulating.

Agatha Christie