"Fascinating, Doidge's book is a remarkable and hopeful……" — Oliver Sacks

"Fascinating, Doidge's book is a remarkable and hopeful portrait of the endless adaptability of the human brain."

— 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 Adaptability Quotes

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In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best… — Winston Churchill
There's a mindset of flexibility and adaptability that comes with us. We don't mind hardship. We don't mind somebody saying,… — James F. Amos
Adaptability cushions the impact of change or disappointment. — Marvin J. Ashton
True spirit of Judo is nothing but the gentle and diligent free spirit. Judo rests on flexible action of mind… — Kyuzo Mifune
The most amazing thing about little children ... was their fantastic adaptability. — Kristin Hunter
Gently eliminating all obstacles to his own understanding, he constantly maintains his unconditional sincerity. His humility, perseverance, and adaptability evoke… — Laozi
I am ever more intrigued by the correspondence between mathematics and physical facts. The adaptability of mathematics to the description… — Nicolaas Bloembergen
Man adapts himself to everything, to the best and the worst. — Jose Ortega y Gasset
One learns to adapt to the land in which one lives. — Louis L'Amour
To exist is to adapt, and if one could not adapt, one died and made room for those who could. — Louis L'Amour
Adaptability is being able to adjust to any situation at any given time. — John Wooden
The genius of the Constitution rests not in any static meaning it might have had in a world that is… — William J. Brennan

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