"To be ourselves we must have ourselves –……" — Oliver Sacks
"To be ourselves we must have ourselves – possess, if need be re-possess, our life-stories. We must “recollect” ourselves, recollect the inner drama, the narrative, of ourselves. A man needs such a narrative, a continuous inner narrative, to maintain his identity, his self."
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78 Quotes by Oliver Sacks
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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 Continuous Quotes
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O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all…
— Teresa of Avila
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I like change. There's something Buddhist about it - continuous change is wonderful.
— David Bailey
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Most of my early records were not cohesive at all, just collections of demos recorded in different years. 'Odelay' was…
— Beck
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I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.
— Aneurin Bevan
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In relativity, movement is continuous, causally determinate and well defined, while in quantum mechanics it is discontinuous, not causally determinate…
— David Bohm
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There is no such thing as a life of passion any more than a continuous earthquake, or an eternal fever.…
— Lord Byron
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Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.
— Winston Churchill
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In every animal which has not passed the limit of its development, a more frequent and continuous use of any…
— Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
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On the whole, at least in the author's experience, the preparation of species-specific antiserum fractions and the differentiation of closely…
— Karl Landsteiner
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He was a parade all by himself, a burst of dazzle and jingle, Santa Claus drinking his whiskey straight and…
— Jimmy Cannon
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Water from a fountain quenches the excessive heat which would destroy this life. Thus water can be called the only…
— Unknown Author
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Excellence is not a destination; it is a continuous journey that never ends.
— Brian Tracy
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