I always hoped I'd end up playing a lot cooler roles. I do…

I think that a lot of people in all walks of life have the impression, of course, that, 'I specialize in something. I can't…

— Robert J. Shiller

I think you have to be careful not to do too much as yourself. Otherwise you stop getting the acting roles, and at the…

— Martine McCutcheon

There's a misperception about actors that we actually choose the roles we end up doing - it's more that we're chosen for them.

— Mark Ruffalo

If, as some savants of consciousness suggest, we are actually agreeing to create, from moment to moment, everything we perceive as real, then it…

— Phil Lesh

Savant syndrome, characteristically, consists of left hemisphere dysfunction coupled with right hemisphere emergence, and what you see in the savant are basically right brain…

— Darold Treffert

“Too often, no matter what simpering savants say, there is no real choice. Not if life is to have meaning.”

— L.E. Modesitt Jr

Savant syndrome and autism, I think, are not disorders of brain structure, but they're disorders of brain function.

— Darold Treffert

We have preachers and savants who dilate endlessly on the sanctity of family and childhood but who tolerate a system in which a casual…

— Christopher Hitchens

With respect to why some acquired savants are musical, and some are good at the arts, and some are mathematical, why aren't they all…

— Darold Treffert

Science in England is not a profession: its cultivators are scarcely recognised even as a class. Our language itself contains no single term by…

— Charles Babbage

When I met my first savant in 1962, I was impressed by the abilities in these youngsters who had severe disabilities. They appeared to…

— Darold Treffert

The globe has been circumnavigated, but no man ever yet has; you may survey a kingdom and note the result in maps, but all…

— Alexander Smith

“Mystics love to make things as obscure as possible, I've learned, and never use a sentence when a paragraph of riddles will do. Priests,…

— William Dietrich

There is a small segment of people with autism that have savant skills, where they can memorize entire maps of whole entire city. They…

— Temple Grandin

The ways in which acquired savants show up are usually the same ways that congenital, or non-acquired, savant syndrome shows up. They tend to…

— Darold Treffert