"First thing about being a patient-you have to……" — Oliver Sacks
"First thing about being a patient-you have to learn patience."
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78 Quotes by Oliver Sacks
Oliver Sacks has 78 quotes on this site.
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We have, each of us, a life story, whose continuity, whose sense, is our lives.
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A disease is never a mere loss or excess. There is always a reaction on the part of the organism…
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Scheele, it was said, never forgot anything if it had to do with chemistry. He never forgot the look, the…
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Music can lift us out of depression or move us to tears - it is a remedy, a tonic, orange…
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The power of music to integrate and cure. . . is quite fundamental. It is the profoundest nonchemical medication.
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It really is a very odd business that all of us, to varying degrees, have music in our heads.
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When I was five, I am told, and asked what my favorite things in the world were, I answered, smoked…
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I regard music therapy as a tool of great power in many neurological disorders -- Parkinson's and Alzheimer's -- because…
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About 10 percent of the hearing impaired get musical hallucinations, and about 10 percent of the visually impaired get visual…
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Psychotic hallucinations, whether they are visual or vocal, they address you. They accuse you. They seduce you. They humiliate you.…
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I was fascinated that one could have such perceptual changes, and also that they went with a certain feeling of…
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Muscular dystrophy ... was never seen until Duchenne described it in the 1850s. By 1860, after his original description, many…
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Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all…
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I try to do an hour of cardio on the days that I have off, and then I'll do 30…
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It's wonderful to have the most important thing in the world there first thing in the morning. And especially in…
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The first thing that I really understood politically and was old enough to get was the failed assassination attempt on…
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If anybody says he can think about quantum physics without getting giddy, that only shows he has not understood the…
— Niels Bohr
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The first thing I started collecting was stamps. Until I started discovering girls. That was the end of stamps.
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Hair is the first thing. And teeth the second. Hair and teeth. A man got those two things he's got…
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In 1980, I moved to Chicago, and I recorded demo tapes for my friends' bands, and in 1981, the first…
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I can only say the first thing that pops into my mind is I remember, years ago, seeing kind of…
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Whenever I am sent a new book on the lively arts, the first thing I do is look for myself…
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Helen Mirren is someone that I have really admired ever since I saw her in 'Excalibur.' That was the first…
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