The left hemisphere is very interested in language; it communicates in words, it has a past, a present, and a future; it… — Jill Bolte Taylor Copy Share Image
I usually say the aim of life is to be happy. Our existence is based on hope. Our life is rooted in… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
When we think carefully, we see that the brief elation we experience when appeasing sensual impulses may not be very different from… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“Sensory experience should not be draped on top of the story as sort of a last-minute decoration. Done right, it is woven… — Douglas Wilson Copy Share Image
The deep secret of the brain is that not only the spinal cord but the entire central nervous system works this way:… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
The only way of expressing emotion in the form of art is by finding an "objective correlative"; in other words, a set… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Predating the Internet and predating videos, you had an active imagination. You would hear sounds and then get mental pictures of what… — Q-Tip Copy Share Image
Esse est percipi, to be is to be perceived, said good old Berkeley; but, according to most philosophers, he was wrong. Yet,… — Zeno Vendler Copy Share Image
Sensory experience does not offset the intense pain or pleasure we feel on a mental level; it may distract us, but doesn't… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Normal people have an incredible lack of empathy. They have good emotional empathy, but they don't have much empathy for the autistic… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
I feel that the change, the mutation in consciousness, will occur spontaneously once certain pressures now in operation are removed. I feel… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
“Each of us possesses five fundamental, enthralling maps to the natural world: sight, touch, taste, hearing, smell. As we unravel the threads… — Ellen Meloy Copy Share Image
“Description is what makes the reader a sensory participant in the story. Good description is a learned skill,one of the prime reasons… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world which… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
There are many facts within fiction. This captivating story provides invaluable insights into the childhood of a girl who has Asperger’s syndrome.… — Tony Attwood Copy Share Image
Gene told me the next day that I got it wrong. But he was not in a taxi, after an evening of… — Graeme Simsion Copy Share Image
For such is man: a Theological Dogma might be refuted to him a thousand times - provided however, that he had need… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Improved perception of our somatic feelings not only gives us greater knowledge of ourselves but also enables greater somatic skill, facility, and… — Richard Shusterman Copy Share Image
You know, mind allows us to portray in different sensory modalities, visual, auditory, olfactory, you name it, what we are like and… — Antonio Damasio Copy Share Image
South Dakota... is like the world's first drive-through sensory deprivation chamber. — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
You can't punish a child who is acting out because of sensory overload. — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
Description is what makes the reader a sensory participant in the story. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Flashbacks rarely involve language. Mine certainly didn't. They were visual, motor, and sensory, and they took place in a relentless, horrifying present. — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
While wine may be only a drink, it is also one of the most complex sensory pleasures we enjoy. It is as… — Natalie MacLean Copy Share Image
It is especially taboo for a wine writer to admit that he or she likes the buzz. But wine is a full… — Natalie MacLean Copy Share Image
The human body is amazing," she said. If you deprive it of one sensory input, the other senses take over, almost instantly. — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
The gift of darkness draws you to know God’s presence beyond what thought, imagination, or sensory feeling can comprehend. — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Yes, expertise puts on in position to have further, cognitive pleasures, but these pleasures are distinct from the sensory pleasure of tasting… — Kent Bach Copy Share Image
Magic's about understanding - and then manipulating - how viewers digest the sensory information. — Teller Copy Share Image
There are a lot of things that we crave, there are a lot of things that would make us perhaps more fulfilled… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
There is only one essential difference between consciousness and dreaming, and that is sensory input. Your experience is a dream, so is… — Stephen LaBerge Copy Share Image
What happens behind your eyes is more important than what happens in front of them. This is a reversal from the way… — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
“Our sensitivity to nature, and our humility within it, are essential to our physical and spiritual survival. Yet, our growing disconnection from… — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
Self-awareness is your awareness of the world, which you experience through the five senses (sound, touch, sight, taste, and smell). Pay attention… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Let's get into talking about how autism is similar animal behavior. The thing is I don't think in a language, and animals… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
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