Stimuli Quotes

Widespread layoffs and rising unemployment do not signal a rebound in confidence anytime soon... With the holiday season quickly approaching, there is little positive stimuli on the horizon. - Lynn Franco

When you put his arm that was not bitten into an uncomfortable position, he does try to move that into a position of comfort... He wiggles his toes. As yet, we don't have a sense that on any continuous basis he knows exactly where he is ... but he does respond to outside stimuli. - Rob Patterson

When this secondary task was of a linguistic nature, the differences in response times for stimuli in the two visual fields disappeared. The differences remained, however, when the secondary task was of a non-linguistic nature. - Aubrey Gilbert

When there's a stimuli that's provoked, it creates a behavior to reduce that anxiety. If there's an anxiety centered on whether the information will get there [electronically], the option is to not do it. - Eric Storch

What Greenspan had to say is very bullish -- he's saying let's have tax cuts sooner rather than later. If he's saying that, it leads me to believe he's going to give us a 50 basis point cut (half-percentage point). That means he thinks this economy needs all the stimuli it can get. - Brian Finnerty

We try to create an extremely structured environment and use the same step-by-step procedures each week. These kids can get overloaded with stimuli. They become over-anxious, and they can shut down. They thrive in a strict, consistent environment. - Sheila O'Brien

We have been saying for years and years and years the expert testimony showed that Terri's eye movements and apparent responses to visual stimuli was a reflexive action... It was the result of a brain stem activity, which is consistent in PVS [persistent vegetative state] patients. She had no critical sight, and that was a finding by the medical examiner as well. - George Felos

Today the riskiest part of air travel is the drive to the airport, and the airlines use a barrage of stimuli to protect passengers from ennui. - George F. Will

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. - Leonard Orr