"We are not passive exhibitors of visual or……" — Antonio Damasio

More Auditory Quotes

This quote is filed under Auditory Quotes, one of 14 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

• I'll never forget it. I was starting to hike up the red rocks, and honestly, it was as if I… — Gwyneth Paltrow
• We in the "developed" world seem to have many auditory strategies that insulate us from the presence of silence, simplicity,… — Joan Halifax
• The essential function of the (design) profession in our society is to enhance and cultivate communications toward: Easier understanding of… — Will Burtin
• The auditory perception is not sufficient for our knowledge of the world; it does not have vastness. — Robert Delaunay
• The health of a nation, a society, can be determined by the art it demands. We have insisted of television… — Edward Albee
• Just as water, gas, and electricity are brought into our houses from far off to satisfy our needs in response… — Paul Valery
• Maybe in music you're making an auditory environment and maybe you change your environment around you to suit your own… — Florence Welch
• The telephone is virtual reality in that you can meet with someone as if you are together, at least for… — Ray Kurzweil
• I suspect music is auditory cheesecake, an exquisite confection crafted to tickle the sensitive spots of... our mental faculties. — Steven Pinker
• Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting… — Steven Pinker
• Pierce made a calculating noise, accidentally brushing my knee as he shifted. "As Jenks would say, you snore nice." I… — Kim Harrison
• Given her deafness, the auditory part of the brain, deprived of its usual input, had started to generate a spontaneous… — Oliver Sacks

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