Quote by Oliver Sacks Download Open image ““the personal, and becomes entirely abstract and computational.”” — Oliver Sacks ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“I am a non-accredited, overly logical psychologist, therapist, mechanic, diplomat, businessman, and Teacher working in an industry that is still defining itself each and… — Ka Wai Cheung Copy Share Image
“The moment a realm of intellectual activity is codifiable, it ceases to be uniquely human.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Dr. P. may therefore serve as a warning and parable -- of what happens to a science which eschews the judgmental, the particular, the… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
“As so often happens in computer science, we’re willing to sacrifice efficiency for generality.” — Pedro Domingos Copy Share Image
“Every person's mental programming is partly unique, partly shared with others.” — Geert Hofstede Copy Share Image
“I wanted to write about the complexity and hilarity in the everyday business of being human.” — Kate De Goldi Copy Share Image
“In programming the World Wide Computer, we will be programming our lives.” — Nicholas Carr Copy Share Image
“And how much more do we need Korzybski’s consciousness of abstracting at a time when so much of our lives are spent absorbed in… — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
“Certain mystes aver that the real world has been constructed by the human mind, since our ways are governed by the artificial categories into… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
“so each day brought a further descent into the depths of concrete existence and a further ascent toward the heights of abstraction.” — Jean d'Ormesson Copy Share Image
“The options for modifying reality are as endless as the limits of personal imagination.” — Steven Redhead Copy Share Image
“The feelings are similar, in some ways, to those one has in Rome or Athens, but quite different in other ways, because this culture… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
But the saddest difference between them was that Zazetsky, as Luria said, 'fought to regain his lost faculties with the indomitable tenacity of the… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
Music can lift us out of depression or move us to tears - it is a remedy, a tonic, orange juice for the ears. — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
“We have five senses in which we glory and which we recognise and celebrate, senses that constitute the sensible world for us. But there… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
“But it must be said from the outset that a disease is never a mere loss or excess— that there is always a reaction,… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
There is no one part of the brain which recognizes or responds emotionally to music. Instead, there are many different parts responding to different… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
I think there is no culture in which music is not very important and central. That's why I think of us as a sort… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
Who cared if there was really any Being to pray to? What mattered was the sense of giving thanks and praise, the feeling of… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
“unconscious motives may sometimes ally themselves to physiological propensities, of how one cannot abstract an ailment or its treatment from the whole pattern, the… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
“We have, each of us, a life-story, an inner narrative — whose continuity, whose sense, is our lives. It might be said that each… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
I regard music therapy as a tool of great power in many neurological disorders -- Parkinson's and Alzheimer's -- because of its unique capacity… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
Psychotic hallucinations, whether they are visual or vocal, they address you. They accuse you. They seduce you. They humiliate you. They jeer at you.… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
