"Every act of perception, is to some degree……" — Oliver Sacks

"Every act of perception, is to some degree an act of creation, and every act of memory is to some degree an act of imagination."

— 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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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think. — Hannah Arendt
It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has… — Hannah Arendt
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
Quality is not an act, it is a habit. — Aristotle
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,… — Aristotle
Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. — Aristotle
Storytelling is fine as long as you can encourage people to act on the stories. — Karen Armstrong
Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is. — Malcolm Arnold
Criticize the act, not the person. — Mary Kay Ash
We like to engage in a normal publishing effort, which is to act in a responsible manner and make sure… — Julian Assange
Gardening is not a rational act. — Margaret Atwood
All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of… — Wystan Hugh Auden

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