Adjacent Sides Quotes & Sayings

Wall and Melzack showed how a chronic injury not only makes the cells in the pain system fire more easily but can also cause our pain maps to enlarge their "receptive field" (the area of the body's surface that they map for), so that we begin to feel pain over a larger area of our body's surface. This was happening to Moskowitz, whose neck pain was spreading to both sides of his neck. Wall and Melzack also showed that as maps enlarge, pain signals in one map can "spill" into adjacent pain maps. Then we may develop referred pain, when we are hurt in one body part but feel the pain in another, some distance away. — Norman Doidge

Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody. — Benjamin Franklin

Consciousness is, among other things, a spontaneous exercise in creativity. You are learning now, in a three-dimensional context, the ways in which your emotional and psychic existence can create varieties of physical form. You manipulate within the psychic environment, and these manipulations are then automatically impressed upon the physical mold. — Seth

Never was he conscious that his thoughts were prayers; only that the prayers were never answered. — William Peter Blatty

And so, as quietly as he had lived, he slipped out of town, leaving only a note behind:
Well, that's that. I'm off, and if you don't believe I'm leaving, just count the days I'm gone. When you hear the phone not ringing, it'll be me that's not calling. Goodbye, old girl, and good luck.
Yours truly,
Earl Adcock
P.S. I'm not deaf. — Fannie Flagg

At school I was very shy and coincidentally inherited the title 'little miss worry guts,' and that was just among the staff. I learned early on that I could make people laugh, and as my small neat body betrayed me by growing to dizzying heights, I used it as a tool that translated into complete slap-stick comedy. — Erin O'Connor

I used to think that guys preferred tall women. But plenty of them like short girls. — Anna Kendrick

It was nothing like Roxanne singing, where it seemed that everyone's heart would have to wait until she finished before it could beat again. — Ann Patchett

My own mind began to grow, watchful with anxoius thoughts. — Mary Shelley

You learn to rise above a lot of bad things that happen in your life. And you have to keep going. — Lauren Bacall