Understimulating Quotes & Sayings

Louisiana, the state road maintenance forgot. — James Patterson

It's not the days that are old, it's you that's old. — Karl Lagerfeld

Maybe people really don't change as much as we think. Maybe they just ... maybe they just stiffen up. — Stephen King

Marriage isn't a contest to see who is most often right. Marriage requires being what the Japanese call 'the wise bamboo,' which means you bend so you don't break. Treat your spouse with the flexibility and respect you would give to a top client. Think how we treat clients; We smile, we are polite, we listen to their ideas. Never forget that your spouse is your most important client. — Joan Rivers

He who writes carelessly confesses thereby at the very outset that he does not attach much importance to his own thoughts. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Even though we can reach for the outer limits of our temperaments, it can often be better to situate ourselves squarely inside our comfort zones ...
Once you understand introversion and extroversion as preferences for certain levels of stimulation, you can begin consciously trying to situate yourself in environments favorable to your own personality
neither overstimulating nor understimulating, neither boring nor anxiety-making. You can organize your life in terms of what personality psychologists call "optimal levels of arousal" and what I call "sweet spots," and by doing so feel more energetic and alive than before. — Susan Cain

But babies become children, and they go to elementary schools that indoctrinate them on how to overthrow governments, and they get interested in boys and girls, or they don't, and anyway they change. — Joseph Fink

Within alpinism's narrow framework we seek transcendence and relentlessly pursue what remains hidden from us on flat ground: our true selves. — Steve House

(Oscar) Wilde is surely one of the most erotic writers who ever lived. — Tanith Lee

I spent my adult life as a scientist, and science is, essentially, the most successful approach we have to try and understand the vast mysteries around. — David Eagleman

We live lives of illusion and miss the incredible reality that exists in every present moment. — Marshall Stern

I want to keep pushing myself so I never feel settled. I don't really know if it's going to end up working. I'm stressed out most of the time. — Selena Gomez

[T]he great end of education ... is to persuade and to inspire the sincere love of virtue. — George Turnbull