"People will make a life in their own……" — Oliver Sacks
"People will make a life in their own terms, whether they are deaf or colorblind or autistic or whatever. And their world will be quite as rich and interesting and full as our world."
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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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More Autistic Quotes
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I know of nobody who is purely autistic, or purely neurotypical. Even God has some autistic moments, which is why…
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Nobel prize-calibre geniuses often have certain core autistic features at their heart.
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I've learned that every human being, with or without disabilities, needs to strive to do their best, and by striving…
— Naoki Higashida
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There is not a flower or bird in sight, only a small screen on which lines are moving, while the…
— Unknown Author
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I'm glad Carol Vorderman has left Countdown, I mean it's not like she did much. She was effectively just an…
— Michael McIntyre
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You try to sit down at approximately the same time every day. This is how you train your unconscious to…
— Anne Lamott
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For a seriously autistic kid, the best prognosis might be getting into a mainstream school without being too much of…
— Jenny McCarthy
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There is a huge boom in autism right now because inattentive mothers and competitive dads want an explanation for why…
— Denis Leary
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The autistic personality is an extreme variant of male intelligence.
— Hans Asperger
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Autistic children are extremely bright if you can connect to them and bring them into our world. Socially it's really…
— Tisha Campbell-Martin
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We are convinced, then, that autistic people have their place in the organism of the social community. They fulfil their…
— Hans Asperger
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Animals are like autistic savants. In fact, I'd go so far as to say that animals might actually be autistic…
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