... the physical and domestic education of daughters should occupy the principal attention of mothers, in childhood: and the stimu...lation of the intellect should be very much reduced.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When we experience a film, we consciously prime ourselves for illusion. Putting aside will and intellect, we make way for it in ou...r imagination. The sequence of pictures plays directly on our feelings. Music works in the same fashion; I would say that there is no art form that has so much in common with film as music. Both affect our emotions directly, not via the intellect. And film is mainly rhythm; it is inhalation and exhalation in continuous sequence. Ever since childhood, music has been my great source of recreation and stimulation, and I often experience a film or play musically.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A partner evoked by sophisticated electric brain stimulation could be as real and much more satisfying than the boy or girl next d...oor.... All the stars in Hollywood living or dead are there for your pleasure. Sated with superstars, you can lay Cleopatra, Helen of Troy, Isis, Madame Pompadour, or Aphrodite. You can get fucked by Pan, Jesus Christ, Apollo or the Devil himself.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to v...ary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The telephone conversation is, by its very nature, reactive, not reflective. Immediacy is its prime virtue. The immediacy delivers... quick company, instant stimulation; the stimulation is cathartic; catharsis pushes back anxiety; into open space flows the kind of thought generated by electric return. The letter, written in absorbed solitude, is an act of faith; it assumes the presence of humanity; world and self are generated from within; loneliness is courted, not feared. To write a letter is to be alone with my thoughts in the conjured presence of another person. I keep myself imaginative company. I occupy the empty room. I alone infuse the silence.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
[Girls] study under the paralyzing idea that their acquirements cannot be brought into practical use. They may subserve the purpos...es of promoting individual domestic pleasure and social enjoyment in conversation, but what are they in comparison with the grand stimulation of independence and self- reliance, of the capability of contributing to the comfort and happiness of those whom they love as their own souls?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is growing consensus that new parents need help--information, advice, practical assistance--and that infants and toddlers ne...ed stimulation as well as care and nurture.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Television thus illustrates the mixed blessings of technological change in American society. It is a new medium, promising extraor...dinary benefits: great educational potential, a broadening of experience, enrichment of daily life, entertainment for all. But it teaches children the uses of violence, offers material consumption as the answer to life's problems, sells harmful products, habituates viewers to constant stimulation, and undermines family interaction and other forms of learning such as play and reading.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
At each stage of development the child needs different resources from the family. During the first year, a variety of experience a...nd the availability of the parents for attachment are primary. During the second and third years, stimulation of language development is critical. During the years prior to school entrance, information that persuades children they are loved becomes critical, and during the school years it is important for children to believe that they can succeed at the tasks they want to master.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The lore of our fathers is a fabric of sentences. In our hands it develops and changes, through more or less arbitrary and deliber...ate revisions and additions of our own, more or less directly occasioned by the continuing stimulation of our sense organs. It is a pale gray lore, black with fact and white with convention. But I have found no substantial reasons for concluding that there are any quite black threads in it, or any white ones.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »