"We have, each of us, a life story,……" — Oliver Sacks
"We have, each of us, a life story, whose continuity, whose sense, is our lives."
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78 Quotes by Oliver Sacks
Oliver Sacks has 78 quotes on this site.
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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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We see with the eyes, but we see with the brain as well. And seeing with the brain is often…
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More Continuity Quotes
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It's always challenging when you're shooting a film. Shooting things out of order and keeping continuity on all levels is…
— Amy Adams
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Whoever removes the Cross and its interpretation by the New Testament from the center, in order to replace it, for…
— Hans Urs von Balthasar
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I don't have stylistic loyalty. That's why people perceive me changing all the time. But there is a real continuity…
— David Bowie
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If you think about how healthcare is delivered, it's on an ad hoc basis. Someone comes into a hospital, someone…
— Unknown Author
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Nature does not know extinction; all it knows is transformation. ... Everything science has taught me-and continues to teach me-strengthens…
— Wernher von Braun
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...the only continuity possible in life, as in love, is in growth, in fluidity - in freedom. The only real…
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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Continuity of purpose is one of the most essential ingredients of happiness in the long run, and for most men…
— Bertrand Russell
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Vision is perhaps our greatest strength.. it has kept us alive to the power and continuity of thought through the…
— Li Ka-shing
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Choose one meditation and then put all your effort in it. That effort has to be very regular because will…
— Rajneesh
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This mind goes on continuing. This mind will go on continuing, unless you become aware. And this is a miracle:…
— Rajneesh
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Considered as a mere question of physics, (and keeping all moral considerations entirely out of sight,) the appearance of man…
— Adam Sedgwick
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The great revelation of the quantum theory was that features of discreteness were discovered in the Book of Nature, in…
— Erwin Schrodinger
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