Top 55 Stimulating Quotes

I think laughter and stimulating conversation are the things that truly make a romantic evening.

Children’s programming in America, I think it’s pretty shoddy in terms of lack of diversity. It’s pretty much cartoons and Disney sort of shows. I don’t find any of that stimulating for children.

A journey through the Mediterranean is not only inspiring and stimulating, it is also humbling. The men and women who created antique treasures for us to marvel at had to deal with plague, genocide, a world without writing, iron tools, or penicillin – and yet they made something extraordinary of their life and times.

Music and space collide for me, as I find them incredibly stimulating.

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England was a delightful and stimulating place for a young academic, although by present standards, the laboratory facilities were primitive. There were almost no research grants and no secretarial assistance, even for Sherrington.

Good communication is just as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.

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.

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

I feel very grateful for Sybil. ‘Fawlty Towers‘ was very hard to make, but it was very stimulating.

The jarring change going from an urban environment to an extremely remote natural environment is extremely inspiring. It’s constantly stimulating, it’s like a slap in the face.

Between the ages of 24 and 27, I read Freud’s complete works, everything that had been translated into English. It was very stimulating intellectually. But I did not accept his view of neurosis or of human nature.

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

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

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.

I think that my research is valuable to my teaching. I think that the two complement each other and I’m able to present somewhat more stimulating lectures because of what’s happening in research, so it’s a good complement.

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.

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.

I like to work with people that I find interesting and stimulating artistically, and the field in which they’re perceived to work is secondary and not that relevant to me.

It’s often better to read first-rate science fiction than second-rate science – it’s far more stimulating, and perhaps no more likely to be wrong.

Philanthropic funding can play a vital role in testing and stimulating innovation that, when proven, can be implemented at scale by business or government.

Having lived a full and stimulating life before I had my kids, I’ve relished every minute I’ve had to spend with them and felt a degree of confidence in dealing with their trials and tribulations to date.

The study of error is not only in the highest degree prophylactic, but it serves as a stimulating introduction to the study of truth.

Whether it was expanding healthcare, stimulating the local economy and job growth, innovating in the schools, or protecting our precious environmental resources, Deval focused every day on moving Massachusetts forward.

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.

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

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

I wanted a physical kick in the music. I wanted it to be stimulating.

We need to distinguish between stress and stimulation. Having deadlines, setting goals, and pushing yourself to perform at capacity are stimulating. Stress is when you’re anxious, upset, or frustrated, which dramatically reduce your ability to perform.

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?

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.

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.

I have taught a mixture of undergraduate and graduate courses, and found them both stimulating.

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

Over tens and hundreds of thousands of years, we evolved to find certain things stimulating, and as very intelligent, civilized beings, we’re enormously stimulated by problem solving and learning.

All the things worth writing about are outside me. I’m a lens, not a source. And even if it’s not always a comfortable journey, it’s always a stimulating one.

I think modern television shows, with their intricate plots, are stimulating our minds. This is one reason IQs have been going up.

Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard.

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

Here’s what I tell people now when they come to my shows: ‘First of all, thank you for stimulating the economy, or at least my economic package.’

The image of the robot is very important to us, it’s very stimulating to people’s imaginations.

I just kind of change, constantly, what my focus is. So whatever is stimulating me or inspiring me at the time is what I focus on.

Games sometimes can reveal things. To watch someone in movement, unconscious movement, can be very stimulating and revealing, whether they win or not.

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

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.

History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that.

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.

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

I think there’s much more fashion competition in the more junior levels of the fashion department. And that’s exciting and stimulating to see, because it’s ‘Vogue;’ it’s great to see people dressed originally and with great style and panache. It wouldn’t be ‘Vogue’ otherwise.

The searching for our selves is the most agonizing, isn’t it? – and yet the most stimulating – and one simply cannot escape it.

I like visiting the parliament, listening to the discussions and raising questions. It’s a stimulating environment and it opens your world view.

Don’t confuse being stimulating with being blunt.

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.

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.

A tour is the most intense, stimulating way to hear music; it’s the best form to receive it. There’s genuine excitement from people. I feel like we’ve stepped up a level.