Oliver Sacks
Related MIGUEL RUIZ C.S. LEWIS Life will move on whether you want or not,what you can do is try to fit in with ur brain OMAR ASHRAF EZZELDIN CRAIG GROESCHEL To think that these folks have multimillion-dollar budgets - what do they do with them? I ask my gra... BOB HOLMES DEEPAK CHOPRA We come with this built-in prediction addiction, ... Brain research [shows] that you're going to try... JASON ZWEIG GOLDIE HAWN If you're saying something that people don't want to hear or accept, a significant proportio... JEREMY GRANTHAM If you do not use a muscle or any part of the body, it tends to become atrophic. So is the case with... SHAKUNTALA DEVI DANIEL GOLEMAN SAM SHEPARD [But why does consciousness fade during deep sleep early in the night?] You cannot say that consciou... GIULIO TONONI I do think that I'm a big believer in having an idea or having ideas and just tucking them away ... RIAN JOHNSON TOM WOLFE You can binge a TV series or watch a reality show, and they're not innocent. They take a lot of ... RAOUL PECK In general, people are afraid to acknowledge hallucinations because they immediately see them as a s... OLIVER SACKS PENN JILLETTE MAYA ANGELOU The theory behind previous research is that people with higher education have a higher brain or cogn... DR NIKOLAOS SCARMEAS The theory behind previous research is that people with higher education have a higher brain or cogn... DR. NIKOLAOS SCARMEAS My experience is that when one is in psychosis, you're on a mission and nothing is going to stop... ELYN SAKS FRANCIS COLLINS JO NESBO RICK RIORDAN RAINER MARIA RILKE This school board administration will not stomach this kind of activity going on on our buses or sch... BUCKY BURNSED Dive into the river of the present, but don't thrash about, go with the flow. JIM GENOVESE So for those who think abuse survivors can simply logically process their situation and get out of a... SHAHIDA ARABI Exports have been in line with projections with evidence that actual values have increased while imp... CHARLES ABUKA He's the best athlete on our football team by far. The whole thing with Ben is believing he can do t... JAMES CREGG BRIAN GRAZER KEVYN AUCOIN When you make a decision, you need facts. If those facts are in your brain, they're at your fing... KEN JENNINGS ALBERT BROOKS CHARLIE SHEEN BILL GOLDBERG MARTHA BECK This isn't a magic bullet. It's not usually a lot of fun to do, because you're usually involved with... GERALD MUELLER I have seen improvement in terms of weight, strength and functional activities, ... While some swell... LEWIS YOCUM DEYTH BANGER SEBASTIAN JUNGER ALAN FURST ALICE WALKER JEANETTE WINTERSON BIKRAM CHOUDHURY I think that cognitive scientists would support the view that our visual system does not directly re... GALEN ROWELL PIET MONDRIAN It turns out that this part of the brain is one of the first areas that's attacked by Alzheimer&... JOHN O'KEEFE SAM SHEPARD DON DELILLO RICHARD DAWKINS Exact information about the functional significance of the deep sections of the brain is only obtain... WALTER RUDOLF HESS The information. Every bit that of information that was ever in your brain. But the information is n... MARY E. PEARSON TOM ROBBINS Our automation tools will be utilized, so if we're doing mapping, for example, it will create precis... JAMIE RETTERATH LEMONY SNICKET SEAN BEAN MAUREEN DOWD Essentially, we activate an area. We can do this anywhere in the brain. Once an area is activated, i... GIULIO TONONI Essentially, we activate an area, ... We can do this anywhere in the brain. Once an area is activate... GIULIO TONONI If you imagine your friend is recommending you content on a topic they're an expert on, they can... ADAM D'ANGELO SUSAN ELIZABETH PHILLIPS It has a hopeful message in that we're progressing in our understanding of what parts of the brain a... HILARY BLUMBERG VIOLA DAVIS CATE BLANCHETT Catching the ball with a fatigued brain, you don't really understand. When your brain gets tired, yo... AKIN AKINGBALA ROBERT WEBB RUBY WAX GEORGE BERNARD SHAW You have done something to your brain. You have made it high. If I lay 10 mls of diazepam on you, it... BRUCE ROBINSON JUDITH VIORST The way you build trust with your team is around super-clear communication in that instant when they... DICK COSTOLO CRAIG GROESCHEL If you break up with a girlfriend or a boyfriend, you're in this vulnerable state where you'... SAM PALLADIO IVANKA TRUMP What you don't do, if you're an adult, is decide that you're going to budget things thro... LEWIS BLACK All you need to do is turn on the news, and in five minutes, you're depressed with the state of ... BILLY PORTER The default activity patterns of the brain may, over many years, augment a metabolic- or activity-de... RANDY BUCKNER JEAN CHATZKY TEMPLE GRANDIN What can the Fed do about WorldCom? This is not an interest rate problem. This is not something they... DIANE SWONK DAVID PERLMUTTER More than ninety-five percent of your brain activity, as you consciously read this sentence, is bein... KEVIN MICHEL TEMPLE GRANDIN Perception determines our reality, our life experience, our sub conscious programming, our physical ... HOWARD MANN A child who plays a game of football for one season without any documented concussion - several mont... BENNET OMALU The brain does not manufacture thoughts unless we stimulate it with habitual verbalizing. When we tr... HENEPOLA GUNARATANA S. JAY OLSHANSKY LOIS LOWRY At an individual level just as much as a corporate level, this notion of if you're not really pa... JOHN HAGEL III Another one of our fantasies is that we'd like to make this area more active with ongoing flea marke... GABRIEL BRISBOIS SHALOM HARLOW By no stretch of the imagination can you describe me as a Wall Street lawyer. If you're going to... KEITH ROTHFUS CRAIG GROESCHEL CARLOS GHOSN STERLING K. BROWN People with Complex PTSD suffer from more severe and frequent dissociation symptoms, as well as memo... SUZETTE BOON MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE
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If a man has lost a leg or an eye, he knows he has lost a leg or an eye; but if he has lost a self -... OLIVER SACKS In general, people are afraid to acknowledge hallucinations because they immediately see them as a s... OLIVER SACKS I feel I should be trying to complete my life, whatever 'completing a life' means. OLIVER SACKS I often feel that life is about to begin, only to realize it is almost over. OLIVER SACKS Elements and birthdays have been intertwined for me since boyhood, when I learned about atomic numbe... OLIVER SACKS I was always the youngest boy in my class at high school. I have retained this feeling of being the ... OLIVER SACKS I think hallucinations need to be discussed. There are all sorts of hallucinations, and then many so... OLIVER SACKS If we wish to know about a man, we ask 'what is his story--his real, inmost story?'--for each of us ... OLIVER SACKS To live on a day-to-day basis is insufficient for human beings; we need to transcend, transport, esc... OLIVER SACKS We speak not only to tell other people what we think, but to tell ourselves what we think. Speech is... OLIVER SACKS My religion is nature. That’s what arouses those feelings of wonder and mysticism and gratitude in... OLIVER SACKS Every act of perception, is to some degree an act of creation, and every act of memory is to some de... OLIVER SACKS I find my thoughts drifting to the Sabbath, the day of rest, the seventh day of the week, and perhap... OLIVER SACKS In examining disease, we gain wisdom about anatomy and physiology and biology. In examining the pers... OLIVER SACKS There are, of course, inherent tendencies to repetition in music itself. Our poetry, our ballads, ou... OLIVER SACKS The inexpressible depth of music, so easy to understand and yet so inexplicable, is due to the fact ... OLIVER SACKS من السهل تذكر الأمور الجميلة في الحياة ، الأوقات التي ي... 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ANDREW SACKS Her public perception as a mother is very strong. ANDREW SACKS JONATHAN SACKS We left the meeting with a list of open issues, not a handshake. DAVID SACKS JONATHAN SACKS This is really groundbreaking. We were very surprised by this data. FRANK SACKS This is a modified version of the old diet, ... The DASH diet was a real breakthrough for lowering b... FRANK SACKS For the scrapbook, I put a lot of pictures in, along with postcards and pamphlets from the offices o... MARLA SACKS JONATHAN SACKS JONATHAN SACKS JONATHAN SACKS JONATHAN SACKS JONATHAN SACKS JONATHAN SACKS JONATHAN SACKS JONATHAN SACKS JONATHAN SACKS JONATHAN SACKS JONATHAN SACKS JONATHAN SACKS JONATHAN SACKS JONATHAN SACKS We're thrilled to be partners with Fox Searchlight. DAVID SACKS JONATHAN SACKS JONATHAN SACKS I know when my company has closed a deal and when it hasn't. DAVID SACKS We're incredibly proud that 'Smoking' is our debut film and we're thrilled to be partners with Fox S... DAVID SACKS JONATHAN SACKS JONATHAN SACKS JONATHAN SACKS JONATHAN SACKS This diet should be a frontrunner. It improved the whole cardiovascular risk spectrum. A lot of pati... FRANK SACKS This diet should be a frontrunner, ... It improved the whole cardiovascular risk spectrum. A lot of ... FRANK SACKS We think people will like these diets better than low-fat high carbohydrate diets because it gives t... FRANK SACKS I'm in favor of drug therapy and being aggressive with drug therapy with patients who are high risk ... FRANK SACKS [Making these changes] is going to prevent people from getting into trouble later in life, having he... FRANK SACKS More people will take it and many people think it's the panacea, which it's not, ... Who's going to ... FRANK SACKS First, dealers are ignoring their best customers. They are spending 80 percent of their time on walk... JEFF SACKS Over 60 percent of all dealership costs are personnel related. JEFF SACKS By contrast, dealers spend 20 percent of their time on referrals, be-backs, and repeats, which resul... JEFF SACKS We?re seeing that some dealers are getting their best customer responses and better sales through th... JEFF SACKS Shower attention on a customer who owns a car with eighty thousand miles on it because he or she is ... JEFF SACKS During these first two years, maintenance revenue per vehicle is $150 to $200. JEFF SACKS At most dealerships, the incentive system is stacked in favor of the new customers. JEFF SACKS I also wanted to show the county 4-H leaders that sent me how much I learned so they would keep givi... MARLA SACKS I knew as soon as you got New Orleans cats together you were going to have the spirit and sound of t... LEO SACKS I wanted the musical continuity we could achieve with a house band, and I also wanted thematic conti... LEO SACKS I was sitting in my new home in Cold Spring Harbor, New York, horrified like everyone else. I knew w... LEO SACKS I don't think any responsible performer would go on stage high. If he convinced himself he is better... OLIVER I don't try to analyze my style now or I might lose it. Right now it's automatic and I don't want to... OLIVER I think some entertainers have been very irresponsible in their part in making drug use a fad among ... OLIVER I wouldn't say I'm happy, but I look at things in a soft way. I try to convey more personal interact... OLIVER My job is to entertain people by playing my music well. You shouldn't really be upset because people... OLIVER I like working alone. I feel freer, less constrained. I know what I have to do and I try to do it. T... OLIVER Money is being made programmable. That's a fundamental change with implications we can still bar... DAVID O. SACKS If you allowed PayPal to pursue its destiny, there are moves it could make to become the largest fin... DAVID O. 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OLIVER PLATT I love the script and I just thought it was a great role. Like I say, it's like this - the scrip... OLIVER PLATT You know that was much more of a kind of cameo, I love the movie, I love the story, I love Johnny as... OLIVER PLATT You know, grieve your wife, this is an impulsive thing and you have no idea the kind of trouble you&... OLIVER PLATT The directors that I end up having a really good time with are the ones that understand the fluidity... OLIVER PLATT People start to act very unusually when they find out that they're dying, that they don't ha... OLIVER PLATT OLIVER NORTH OLIVER NORTH OLIVER NORTH OLIVER NORTH OLIVER NORTH OLIVER NORTH OLIVER NORTH OLIVER NORTH OLIVER NORTH OLIVER NORTH OLIVER NORTH OLIVER NORTH OLIVER NORTH OLIVER NORTH OLIVER NORTH OLIVER NORTH OLIVER NORTH OLIVER NORTH OLIVER NORTH A Germany team should not be afraid going into a tournament. History shows that we can raise the lev... 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