For captive gorillas, trees should be available to climb and material such as straw, branches, or bamboo supplied for nest building.
If you do the same thing all the time, it's not very challenging.
I like the challenges of doing different things. It keeps things fresh for me.
I feed on other people's creativity, photographers, artists of every kind. Sometimes a feeling that you get listening to a song can be so powerful. I've wanted to write whole scripts around what I felt just listening to a piece of music. I think music is important, and surrounding your visual field with stimulating things.
Working with so many people from all over the world is extremely enriching and stimulating.
My earliest memories are being in the lab, and the way the cement felt and the way it smelled, and the way the countertops looked and it just being this wonderful, warm, happy place where it was just full of toys.
Soybeans really need an uplift, being on the dull side, but, like dull people, respond readily to the right contacts.
The child should live in an environment of beauty.
Because that is what such a city is, in the New World, a writer's heaven.
During the first few months of an infant's life, its manner of taking the breast, of laying its head on the pillow, etc., becomes crystallized into imperative habits. This is why education must begin in the cradle.
'Deal or No Deal' works nicely with my ADD/ADHD symptoms. I show up, meet the contestants, and move around the set. I'm not stuck behind a pedestal reading trivia questions. I've always had problems sitting still and listening for long periods of time. The show spares me these challenges. I can live in the moment. It's like a standup act.
I have found that sitting in a place where you have never sat before can be inspiring.
Don't you find that work, if you love it, is actually really invigorating?
Writing and cafes are strongly linked in my brain.
As long as the crowd make noise, I will be in my element, whether it is booing or cheering. The main thing is I get a reaction of some kind.
I like visiting the parliament, listening to the discussions and raising questions. It's a stimulating environment and it opens your world view.
I left Jamaica for a while, because as an artist I need to experience different things, see the world, have different energies. Living in one place is not good for me.
This office has a way of waking you up.
...every sight and sound inspiring, leading one far out of himself, yet feeding and building up his individuality.
Agencies which frequently work nights and weekends are more stimulating, more successful - and more profitable.
There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.
I don't think that architecture is only about shelter, is only about a very simple enclosure. It should be able to excite you, to calm you, to make you think.
I have a group of cafes and coffee shops that I go to regularly. They usually have an area where I can plug in my computer and have a corner seat where I can do a couple hours of writing or whatever, even the noise of the surrounding people walking by. Those things are the things that stimulate me into writing.
Little things affect little minds.
I keep myself content by doing lots of different stuff and make sure that my next role is completely different to the last. I just enjoy the versatility of it, the challenge of doing lots of different things. It keeps the job interesting.
