Quotes about Stimulus

Preparation for war is a constant stimulus to suspicion and ill will. Votes: 6

Defeat should never be a source of discouragement but rather a fresh stimulus. Votes: 6

In a person who is open to experience each stimulus is freely relayed through the nervous system, without being distorted by any process of defensiveness. Votes: 6

Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom. Votes: 6

Employees are a company's greatest asset - they're your competitive advantage. You want to attract and retain the best; provide them with encouragement, stimulus, and make them feel that they are an integral part of the company's mission. Votes: 6

Death is really a great blessing for humanity, without it there could be no real progress. People who lived for ever would not only hamper and discourage the young, but they would themselves lack sufficient stimulus to be creative. Votes: 6

I am content with nothing, restless and ambitious... and I despise myself for the vanity, which formed half the stimulus to my exertions. Oh would that I were one of those plodding wise fools who having once set their hand to the plough go on nothing doubting. Votes: 6

Being inexhaustible, life and nature are a constant stimulus for a creative mind. Votes: 4

Drawing general conclusions about your main weaknesses can provide a great stimulus to further growth. Votes: 4

Real freedom is the ability to pause between stimulus and response, and in that pause, choose. Votes: 4

Moral good is a practical stimulus; it is no sooner seen than it inspires an impulse to practice. Votes: 4

There is no stimulus like that which comes from the consciousness of knowing that others believe in us. Votes: 4

Integrity in the Moment of Choice Quality of life depends on what happens in the space between stimulus and response. Votes: 4

Since taking office, President Obama has signed into law spending increases of nearly 25 percent for domestic government agencies - an 84 percent increase when you include the failed stimulus. All of this new government spending was sold as 'investment.' Votes: 4

We are product of neither nature nor nurture; we are a product of choice, because there is always a space between stimulus and response. As we wisely exercise our power to choose based on principles, the space will become larger. Votes: 4

We need some imaginative stimulus, some not impossible ideal such as may shape vague hope, and transform it into effective desire, to carry us year after year, without disgust, through the routine-work which is so large a part of life. Votes: 4

Of what use, however, is a general certainty that an insect will not walk with his head hindmost, when what you need to know is the play of inward stimulus that sends him hither and thither in a network of possible paths? Votes: 4

Within the U.S., the Obama presidency will be mainly measured by the success or failure of his economic policies. And here, I fear, the monstrous stimulus package with which this administration stumbled out of the gate will prove to be Obama's Waterloo. Votes: 4

I believe, unlike people that are totally free-market, laissez-faire fundamentalists, that there is an important role that the government can play - one, in providing public goods, whether it's education, health care, or other things, and two, supervising countercyclical policy - stimulus, whether it's monetary, fiscal, or otherwise. Votes: 4

I will frankly tell you that my experience in prolonged scientific investigations convinces me that a belief in God-a God who is behind and within the chaos of vanishing points of human knowledge-adds a wonderful stimulus to the man who attempts to penetrate into the regions of the unknown. Votes: 4

After the $700 billion bailout, the trillion-dollar stimulus, and the massive budget bill with over 9,000 earmarks, many of you implored Washington to please stop spending money we don't have. But, instead of cutting, we saw an unprecedented explosion of government spending and debt, unlike anything we have seen in the history of our country. Votes: 4

When I sing, I think mostly about the music. But I know that, through singing, my body shows everything that I am. I am a very passionate man and I suffer a lot and have a lot of joy also. In my opinion, it is very important for me to find this stimulus and motivation for singing. Votes: 4

Fathers' sharing in the birth experience can be a stimulus for men's freedom to nurture, and a sign of changing relationships between men and women. In the same way, women's freedom to give birth at home is a political decision, an assertion of determination to reclaim the experience of birth. Birth at home is about changing society. Votes: 4

Play for young children is not recreation activity, It is not leisure-time activity nor escape activity. Play is thinking time for young children. It is language time. Problem-solving time. It is memory time, planning time, investigating time. It is organization-of-ideas time, when the young child uses his mind and body and his social skills and all his powers in response to the stimuli he has met. Votes: 4

Tiger Woods and John Edwards had a better year than the Stimulus bill. Votes: 3

All week Senate will be on the Stimulus/Porkulus Bill. Tune in C SPAN Votes: 3

The present Stimulus Bill sets up the equivalent commission in the United States similar to that which is in England. Votes: 3

Stimulus spending, permanent bailouts, government takeovers, and federal mandates have all failed our nation. America's employers are afraid to invest in an economy racked with uncertainty over what Washington's next set of rules, regulations, mandates, and tax hikes will look like. Votes: 3

Speaker Pelosi says unemployment benefits are economic stimulus. Those are bare-bones benefits. Votes: 2

Between stimulus and response, there is a space where we choose our response. Votes: 2

The same stimulus that animates men to action, will have a proportionate effect on juvenile minds. Votes: 2

Our civilization has evolved through the continuous adjustment of society to the stimulus of new knowledge. Votes: 2

In day-to-day life, you have stimulus to behave unethically, but in the long term, it always pays off to be ethical. Votes: 2

Let's be honest about this; the liberal agenda with failed stimulus plans and government entitlement programs is crippling our economy and our quality of life. Votes: 2

At college I'd seen my dead frog's limbs twitch under some applied stimulus or other - seen, but hadn't believed. Didn't dream of thinking beyond or around what I saw. Votes: 2

Anything that's done to address unemployment in terms of massive stimulus spending is going to exacerbate deficits. And anything that's done to address deficits in the short-term is going to exacerbate unemployment. Votes: 2

Our earliest evidence of government, in the ruins of Babylon and Egypt, shows nothing but ziggurats and pyramids of wasted taxpayer money, the TARP funds and shovel-ready stimulus programs of their day. Votes: 2

Every time I hear a politician mention the word 'stimulus,' my mind flashes back to high school biology class, when I touched battery wires to a dead frog to make it twitch. Votes: 2

President Obama has only had two major policy victories during his tenure: the stimulus package and Obamacare. Both are massively unpopular. The stimulus package launched the Tea Party movement. Obamacare led to the Republican wipeout of 2010. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

Our success was mainly due to the fact that we stimulated the nerves of animals that easily stood on their own feet and were not subjected to any painful stimulus either during or immediately before stimulation of their nerves. Votes: 2

Canada is in budgetary deficit now only because of the recession, only because of stimulus measures, and we will come out of it. We will go back into surplus position when the economy recovers. So there is no need in Canada to raise taxes. Votes: 2

We've used up a lot of bullets. And we talk about stimulus. But the truth is, we're running a federal deficit that's 9 percent of GDP. That is stimulative as all get out. It's more stimulative than any policy we've followed since World War II. Votes: 2

President Obama is traveling around the country, proposing a stimulus bill that has already failed once. Instead of having an honest discussion about whether or not a plan that already failed once will fail again, the establishment would rather distract the American people with gossip. Votes: 2

We have to remember we're in a global economy. The purpose of fiscal stimulus is not simply to sustain activity in our national economies, but to help the global economy as well, and that's why it's so critical that measures in those packages avoid anything that smacks of protectionism. Votes: 2

In order to produce learned fear, you take a neutral stimulus like a tone, and you pair it with an electrical shock. Tone, shock. Tone, shock. So the animal learns that the tone is bad news. But you can also do the opposite - shock it at other times, but never when the tone comes on. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

Adversity is a stimulus. Votes: 0

I never asked for stimulus. Votes: 0

I supported the stimulus package. Votes: 0

Art is the great stimulus to life. Votes: 0

Real economic stimulus comes from real investment. Votes: 0

Experiment has a stimulus which withers its fear. Votes: 0

I think stimulus money is an absolute mistake. Votes: 0

The love of glory gives an immense stimulus. Votes: 0

The word book acted as a transient stimulus Votes: 0

We are the result of the stimulus we receive. Votes: 0

Between stimulus and response is the freedom to choose. Votes: 0

Well-washed and well-combed domestic pets grow dull; they miss the stimulus of fleas. Votes: 0

Though love is instinctive, it cannot develop without a certain stimulus and use. Votes: 0

Defeat should never be a source of discouragement but rather a fresh stimulus Votes: 0

Every author knows what a stimulus it is to have an understanding publisher. Votes: 0

Those who refused to respond to new stimulus would perish. Adapt or perish. Votes: 0

Pausing between stimulus and response allows you to show up in your life. Votes: 0

When passions are ignited in the heart, the whole body responds to its stimulus Votes: 0

Every stimulus becomes an opportunity to find fresh ways to express your personal vision. Votes: 0

Defeat should not be the source of discouragement, but a stimulus to keep plotting. Votes: 0

Collect stimulus, draw them. Focus, find out as much as you can. Stimulate yourself. Votes: 0

What others do may be the stimulus of our feelings, but never the cause. Votes: 0

The stimulus was a case of political patronage, corporate welfare, and cronyism at their worst. Votes: 0

Mindfulness is a pause -- the space between stimulus and response: that's where choice lies. Votes: 0

Small businesses are the economic drivers of our country, providing the stimulus our communities need. Votes: 0

What do you think a stimulus is? It's spending - that's the whole point! Seriously. Votes: 0

The great failure in education, much of the time, is the lack of excitement and stimulus Votes: 0

Such is the force of Happiness-- The Least can lift a ton Assisted by its stimulus. Votes: 0

The Obama 'stimulus' plan is a $1 trillion dollar gamble more suited to Las Vegas than Washington. Votes: 0

The mind and body must be subjected to extreme stimulus, by means of drugs and music. Votes: 0

In human affairs, the best stimulus for running ahead is to have something we must run from. Votes: 0

Inactivity and deprivation of all accustomed stimulus is not rest; it is a preparation for the tomb Votes: 0

When I supported the stimulus package, I knew that it would not be popular with the Republican Party. Votes: 0

The truth of the matter of is that stimulus money not only doesn't stimulate; it actually reduces output. Votes: 0

I opposed the Medicare prescription drug entitlement. I opposed the Wall Street bailout. I opposed the stimulus bill. Votes: 0

Any so-called stimulus program is a ruse. The government can increase its spending only by reducing private spending equivalently. Votes: 0

It can get boring. Not the playing the songs necessarily, or doing the clothes. You know, you need stimulus. Votes: 0

The basic stimulus to the intelligence is doubt, a feeling that the meaning of an experience is not self-evident. Votes: 0

The failed stimulus, along with Obamacare's long list of failures, show what happens when Congress passes laws in a rush. Votes: 0

Giving someone a one-time stimulus check, or a one-time tax cut that expires doesn't allow the predictability that business needs. Votes: 0

I think there is need for economic stimulus... and government can help make that up in a very difficult time. Votes: 0

Sometimes I feel a strange exhilaration up here which seems to come from something beyond the mere stimulus of flying. Votes: 0

Sexual pleasure, wisely used and not abused, may prove the stimulus and liberator of our finest and most exalted activities. Votes: 0

The economy needs a stimulus. We MUST borrow. The notion of debt as a sin or something evil should be reviewed. Votes: 0

Yes. We do think that the stimulus package is raising GDP and raising employment relative to what would have happened otherwise. Votes: 0

It's the cross-training that's key. It doesn't let your body adapt to one stimulus too much and it keeps your workouts exciting. Votes: 0

Beginning with the stimulus, Obama has repeatedly inserted the government into the free market for political reasons - and with disastrous results. Votes: 0

In general, every stimulus directs activity. It does not simply excite it or stir it up, but directs it toward an object. Votes: 0

If you start responding to every stimulus, then you end up as a nerve gas case, quite literally. Neurons fire at once. Votes: 0

There's no doubt that [tax cuts] act as a stimulus. How could they not, in a sense? You're giving cash back to households. Votes: 0

The stimulus of competition, when applied at an early age to real thought processes, is injurious both to nerve-power and to scientific insight. Votes: 0

The approbation of others is a stimulus of which one must sometimes be wary. The feeling of one's own strength makes one modest. Votes: 0

Death is what takes place within us when we look upon others not as gift, blessing, or stimulus but as threat, danger, competition. Votes: 0

I've lived a life which has been pretty much full up with ambition, ideas, stimulus, creativity, some negativity which I try and avoid. Votes: 0

The human intellect owes its superiority over that of the lower animals in great measure to the stimulus which alcohol has given imagination. Votes: 0

Riches are oftener an impediment than a stimulus to action; and in many cases they are quite as much a misfortune as a blessing. Votes: 0

Instead of receiving the help that she had hoped for, Mr. Cain instead decided to provide her with his idea of a stimulus package. Votes: 0

If, if more stimulus means more tax cuts to small businesses, if, if more stimulus means middle class tax cuts, then I'm for it. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

If work is no antidote to death, nor a denial of it, death is a powerful stimulus to work. Get done what you can. Votes: 0

The jazz band's chief stimulus, of course, was the rise of the negro 'blues' and their exploitation by the negro song-writer, W. C. Handy. Votes: 0

In many cases of inflammation, the vascular changes develop slowly and long after the application of the stimulus which is responsible for the inflammatory reaction. Votes: 0

In the real world, banks hang onto their money for fear of making bad loans, no matter how many bailouts or stimulus packages Washington passes. Votes: 0

I'm from the middle of nowhere in Somerset, and if I have too much stimulus or chaos, then I tend to not be as creative. Votes: 0

I am against all machines. It's no wonder that so many Americans go on dope when they have no other cultural stimulus than a television. Votes: 0

Extending federal unemployment insurance is vital for millions of Americans laid off through no fault of their own, and it serves as an important economic stimulus. Votes: 0

Any stimulus package amounts to taking money from the pockets of some Americans and placing it in the pockets of others who have better political connections. Votes: 0

What did the taxpayers get out of the Obama stimulus? More debt. That money wasn't just spent and wasted - it was borrowed, spent, and wasted. Votes: 0

The very first email I got [was] from a women's group saying 'We don't want this stimulus package to just create jobs for burly men.' Votes: 0

Visit your local supermarket or retail chain. You'll experience a lot of visual stimulus, but it's unlikely that your other senses will encounter any compelling messages. Votes: 0

When you talk about the stimulus package, you can ask 1,000 different people and they - you will have 1,000 different opinions of what is the ideal stimulus package. Votes: 0

A democratic civilization will save itself only if it makes the language of the image into a stimulus for critical reflection - not an invitation for hypnosis. Votes: 0

Television for a child creates such a high bar of stimulus that nothing else competes. A beautiful day is absolute crap to a kid who watches tv. Votes: 0

The element of discovery is very important. I don't repeat myself well. I want and need that stimulus of walking forward from one new world to another. Votes: 0

Feeling, in the broad sense of whatever is felt in any way, as sensory stimulus or inward tension, pain, emotion or intent, is the mark of mentality. Votes: 0

It's enough just to speak when spoken to, to give some minimal reaction to a stimulus. But to actually be the stimulus doesn't even occur to me. Votes: 0

Adequate control means that the successive acts are brought into a continuous order; each act not only meets its immediate stimulus but helps the acts which follow. Votes: 0

As a former member of President Obama's economic team, I have a soft spot for the fiscal stimulus legislation he signed just a month after his inauguration. Votes: 0

He soon recognized the fact that the stimulus proceeded from the idea to be in the power of a woman rather than from the act of violence itself. Votes: 0

The Tea Party has definitely increased political involvement, not only among Tea Party members but among people who oppose the Tea Party members. It's been a general stimulus. Votes: 0

Every characteristic absence of spirituality, every piece of common vulgarity, is due to an inability to resist a stimulus - you have to react, you follow every impulse. Votes: 0

What saved the economy, and the New Deal was the enormous public-works project known as World War II, which finally provided a fiscal stimulus adequate to the economy's needs. Votes: 0

Washington's insatiable desire to spend our children's inheritance on failed stimulus plans and other misguided economic theories have given record debt and left us with far too many unemployed. Votes: 0

Where as you go into playing something like Ulysses [on Black Panther], you go - I'm going to have this haircut and this cloth, you draw from different stimulus. Votes: 0

Well, you know, we've got a lot of stimulus in the economy already from the tax cut, from the lowered interest rates, and also from the refinancing of mortgages. Votes: 0

Between stimulus and response, there is a space, and when you take time to pray or make a cuppa, you don't have to live in reaction to a situation. Votes: 0

I have never seen people who could do real work except under the stimulus of encouragement and enthusiasm and the approval of the people for whom they are working. Votes: 0

The stimulus is our bridge over troubled waters. And if it's invested well, it'll generate a lot of economic growth, and we'll get quite a bit of the revenues back. Votes: 0

No, I'm not one (of those) people who votes for something then writes to the government to ask them to send us money. I did not request any stimulus money. Votes: 0

And taking more money out of the private economy and having the government perform as it has poorly done with the stimulus I don't think is the right way to go. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

A response is not just a re-action, a protest, as it were, against being disturbed; it is, as the word indicates, an answer. It meets the stimulus, and corresponds with it. Votes: 0

Any that is why I think any kind of a stimulus package is going to have to help people who are without work, without a job, help them have health insurance. Votes: 0

Great indeed is Fear; but it is not, as our military enthusiasts believe and try to make us believe, the only stimulus known for awakening the higher ranges of men's spiritual energy. Votes: 0

Anything that's done to address unemployment in terms of massive stimulus spending is going to exacerbate deficits. And anything that's done to address deficits in the short-term is going to exacerbate unemployment Votes: 0

An intelligent class can scarce ever be, as a class, vicious, and never, as a class, indolent. The excited mental activity operates as a counterpoise to the stimulus of sense and appetite. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Physical pain is not a simple affair of an impulse, travelling at a fixed rate along a nerve. It is the resultant of a conflict between a stimulus and the whole individual. Votes: 0

And so we have to be careful with looking at additional stimulus that we don't provoke an increase in the bond rate and then offset a lot of the stimulus we've already got. Votes: 0

All we're getting from the Democratic majority in Congress and from this White House is more bailouts, more spending, more planned stimulus, more deficits and debt, and the American people have had it. Votes: 0

We may casually talk of all sorts of new programs and 'stimulus,' but the vast trillion-dollar collective national debt and rising annual deficits will insidiously hamstring almost everything we plan to do. Votes: 0

Clear communication is always important in central banking, but it can be especially important when economic conditions call for further policy stimulus but the policy rate is already at its effective lower bound. Votes: 0

It is impossible to describe any human action if one does not refer to the meaning the actor sees in the stimulus as well as in the end his response is aiming at. Votes: 0

I think the biggest thing we need is to unclog the credit markets, and we may need another stimulus - if we do, it's - it should go to the lower and middle-income people. Votes: 0

But, at the same time, I think that there is room for economic stimulus in terms of accelerated depreciation to encourage businesses to invest and to grow and ultimately to hire more people again. Votes: 0

President Obama's call for nearly a half-trillion dollars in more government stimulus when America has more than $14 trillion in debt is guided by his mistaken belief that we can spend our way to prosperity. Votes: 0

In getting good results team leaders become conductor rather than driver, enabling others to play the right music, not by hands-on domination of all decisions and execution, but by providing inspiration, motivation and stimulus. Votes: 0

Obamacare is his. The stimulus is his. The economy is his. And yet Barack Obama still treats it as though it's being run by others and he's still fighting them and he's running into obstacles. Votes: 0

Obamacare is his. The stimulus is his. The economy is his. And yet Barack Obama still treats it as though it's being run by others and he's still fighting them and he's running into obstacles. Votes: 0

I have trouble sleeping, at the end of the night. There's a lot of stimulus and my brain is processing a lot of different arcs and personalities. I'm always processing things, so I don't sleep. Votes: 0

Japan has introduced fiscal stimulus five times in the past seven or eight years and each time it's been a failure and that's not a surprise. Fiscal stimulus is not stimulating in and of itself. Votes: 0

We now reflexly, and dishonestly, unmask all virtue as hypocritical, all beauty as Kitsch; and have become so jaded with simplicity and wholesomeness that we find Good insipid and crave the sharp stimulus of sin. Votes: 0