"There is certainly a universal and unconscious propensity……" — Oliver Sacks
"There is certainly a universal and unconscious propensity to impose a rhythm even when one hears a series of identical sounds at constant intervals... We tend to hear the sound of a digital clock, for example, as "tick-tock, tick-tock" - even though it is actually "tick tick, tick tick."
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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 Clock Quotes
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I'll come and make love to you at five o'clock. If I'm late start without me.
— Tallulah Bankhead
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I have a master plan as an artist. I've always said I'm not going to be punching nobody's clock. I…
— Erykah Badu
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Directing is physically exciting because there's a ticking clock, you're working with people, it's very social, it's very enjoyable.
— Alan Ball
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I would like to find a stew that will give me heartburn immediately, instead of at three o clock in…
— John Barrymore
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There are always deadlines I have to meet. I don't let myself get too close to the deadlines, so it's…
— Scott Adams
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I rode horseback three miles each way to get to high school, and in bad weather it was a problem…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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And I know this happens because I took economics, and I'd explain it to ya, but I flunked that course.…
— Lewis Black
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The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure.
— William Blake
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A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o clock, runs a chance of leaving…
— Emily Bronte
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Steven Spielberg seems to have wanted to be a director from 13. He put his dog in a certain position…
— Albert Brooks
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I write seven days a week, starting at 4 o'clock in the morning, including Christmas.
— Dan Brown
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Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.
— Jean de la Bruyere
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