Stimulus Quotes - page 7

Stimuli, however, do not act upon an indifferent organism. (Jerome Bruner)
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. View quote
Jerome Bruner
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. View quote
Johannes Peter Muller
The failed stimulus, along with Obamacare's long list of failures, show what happens when Congress passes laws in a rush. View quote
John Barrasso
In day-to-day life, you have stimulus to behave unethically, but in the long term, it always pays off to be ethical. View quote
Jorge Paulo Lemann
Actually, I have been very supportive of a very robust stimulus package from day one. I think this economy has to have a major stimulus initiative because the only group with liquidity is the federal government. View quote
Judd Gregg
If we don't get this economy going, the numbers that represent this stimulus package are going to be small compared to the loss of revenue to the federal government for our economy. View quote
Judd Gregg
Adversity is a stimulus. View quote
James Broughton
The water was like a physiological stimuli to the subconscious that overwhelmed people with too much psychoanalytical material, you might say. People could do 10 breathing sessions without the water, and then they did breathing sessions in the water. View quote
Leonard Orr
Surely, the best and most effective measure is to get the economy moving and shorten the period of recession or slowdown. That's the rationale for Gordon Brown's 'fiscal stimulus' and it sounds like a good one to me. View quote
Lucy Powell
I supported the stimulus package. (Luis Fortuno)
Speaker Pelosi says unemployment benefits are economic stimulus. Those are bare-bones benefits. View quote
Alan Nunnelee
In response to the recession, the Obama administration chose to emphasize costly, short-term fixes - ineffective stimulus programs, myriad housing programs that went nowhere, and a rush to invest in 'green' companies. As a consequence, uncertainty over policy - particularly over tax and regulatory policy - slowed the recovery. View quote
Glenn Hubbard
I don't accept as an article of faith that lots of short-term stimulus boosts the economy and gets us back on the long-term trajectory. View quote
Glenn Hubbard
If you are born into poverty, the chances are good that your children will be born into poverty. Find a way to give poor kids the same cognitive stimulus that rich kids receive, and they should end up with the same tools for success. View quote
George Kaiser
Our government has failed us. From the billion-dollar bailouts to the 'stimulus' package that failed to stimulate to the government takeover of health care, you cried 'Stop!'... but the Democratic Majority in Washington has refused to listen. View quote
Kevin McCarthy
If you look at the most meaningful science fiction, it didn't come from watching other films. We seem to be in a place now where filmmakers make films based on other films because that's where the stimuli and influence comes from. View quote
Neill Blomkamp
I think stimulus money is an absolute mistake. View quote
Rick Scott
The best thing you can do when you're not feeling funny is go out and get more stimuli from the world, get out and walk around, read a book, go talk to some birds or a dog and replenish the well, as it were. View quote
Rob Delaney
The danger for a comedian on Twitter is the same danger that any civilian faces: sometimes you gotta put that phone down and go live your life. When you're on Twitter, you're not living, and if you're not living, you're not taking in stimuli with which you can create new material. View quote
Rob Delaney
Every dollar of SNAP benefits generates $1.84 in the economy in terms of economic activity. If people are able to buy a little more in the grocery store, someone has to stock it, package it, shelve it, process it, ship it. All of those are jobs. It's the most direct stimulus you can get in the economy during these tough times. (Thomas Vilsack)
Everything changes as a mother. Yes, work has changed. The projects that I choose are even more important to me now. The world he's growing up in and the kind of stimulus that is out there; they are so precious and I'd do anything to protect him. View quote
Jennifer Connelly
The Conservative Party always opposed the fiscal stimulus; they want to cut now the support we are giving to jobs, homes and businesses. View quote
Gordon Brown
The etude is a Romantic idea. It appeared in the early nineteenth century as a new genre: a short piece in which the musical interest is derived almost entirely from a single technical problem. A mechanical difficulty directly produces the music, its charm, and its pathos. Beauty and technique are united, but the creative stimulus is the hand, with its arrangement of muscles and tendons, its idiosyncratic shape. View quote
Charles Rosen
Look, whatever else happiness is, it's also some kind of chemical reaction. Your body making and experiencing a cocktail of hormones and other molecules in response to stimulus. Brain reward. A thing that feels good when you do it. We've had millions of years of evolution that gave a reproductive edge to people who experienced pleasure when something pro-survival happened. Those individuals did more of whatever made them happy, and if what they were doing more of gave them more and hardier offspring, then they passed this on.” "Yes,” I said. "Sure. At some level, that's true of all our emotions, I guess. View quote
Cory Doctorow