"At 11, I could say ‘I am sodium’……" — Oliver Sacks

"At 11, I could say ‘I am sodium’ (Element 11), and now at 79, I am gold."

— Oliver Sacks

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78 Quotes by Oliver Sacks

Oliver Sacks has 78 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

We have, each of us, a life story, whose continuity, whose sense, is our lives.
A disease is never a mere loss or excess. There is always a reaction on the part of the organism…
Scheele, it was said, never forgot anything if it had to do with chemistry. He never forgot the look, the…
Music can lift us out of depression or move us to tears - it is a remedy, a tonic, orange…
The power of music to integrate and cure. . . is quite fundamental. It is the profoundest nonchemical medication.
It really is a very odd business that all of us, to varying degrees, have music in our heads.
When I was five, I am told, and asked what my favorite things in the world were, I answered, smoked…
I regard music therapy as a tool of great power in many neurological disorders -- Parkinson's and Alzheimer's -- because…
About 10 percent of the hearing impaired get musical hallucinations, and about 10 percent of the visually impaired get visual…
Psychotic hallucinations, whether they are visual or vocal, they address you. They accuse you. They seduce you. They humiliate you.…
I was fascinated that one could have such perceptual changes, and also that they went with a certain feeling of…
Muscular dystrophy ... was never seen until Duchenne described it in the 1850s. By 1860, after his original description, many…

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More Element Quotes

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I think a major element of jetlag is psychological. Nobody ever tells me what time it is at home. — David Attenborough
Chance is an element of life. What I try to do is study what I call the mechanics of reality… — Paul Auster
The ultimate binding element in the medieval order was subordination to the divine will and its earthly representatives, notably the… — Irving Babbitt
We have to make sure that women's issues are an essential element on the agendas of all heads of state,… — Michelle Bachelet
The essential element in personal magnetism is a consuming sincerity - an overwhelming faith in the importance of the work… — Bruce Barton
Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal… — Charles Baudelaire
The most powerful element in advertising is the truth. — William Bernbach
There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny. — Irving Berlin
I'm from the element of the streets that says that once you've made it, it's yours. But keep it to… — Mary J. Blige
I don't know if this is the kind of retrospective analysis that people are fond of applying to their work… — Russell Brand
Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's… — Joyce Brothers
I just like playing interesting, complex, complicated characters. I like films that also have an element of humor. — Steve Buscemi

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