Oliver Sacks Musicophilia Quotes & Sayings

Take, for instance, studies from the past decade examining the impacts of exercise on daily routines.4.10 When people start habitually exercising, even as infrequently as once a week, they start changing other, unrelated patterns in their lives, often unknowingly. Typically, people who exercise start eating better and becoming more productive at work. They smoke less and show more patience with colleagues and family. They use their credit cards less frequently and say they feel less stressed. It's not completely clear why. But for many people, exercise is a keystone habit that triggers widespread change. "Exercise spills over," said James Prochaska, a University of Rhode Island researcher. "There's something about it that makes other good habits easier. — Charles Duhigg

It's completely through prayer that I came to believe in God. I just sensed a presence south of my neck. — Mary Karr

[T]hough individual oppression may now and then proceed fro the courts of justice, the general liberty of the people can never be endangered from that quarter ... — Alexander Hamilton

I'd like to dial it back 5% or 10% and try to have a vacation that's not just e-mail with a view. — Elon Musk

I always have an adjustment period where I'm so happy to be home, but then my sense of purpose is totally gone. — Paul Dano

What is the soup kitchen? — Paris Hilton

My first typewriter cost me $75. I can't tell you how many hours it took me to earn that money, or how proud I was of that object. I wrote my first books on it. They will never be published, but that's all right. — Jeffrey Zeldman

The basis of everything that I plugged into when I was younger was blues, and it always stayed with me. — Eric Burdon

I'm a hero with coward's legs. — Spike Milligan

Our misery. This suppression of our rational mind is the source of inspiration. Suffering takes us out of our rational self-control and lets the divine channel through us. — Chuck Palahniuk

I've got an overly developed sense of what selling out is, and I of course worry about it too much. — Martin Freeman

I don't know how you hear music. I imagine that if you like music at all then it has, in your head, some kind of third dimension to it, a dimension suggesting space as well as surface, depth of field as well as texture.
Speaking for myself, I used to hear "buildings" ... three-dimensional forms of architectural substance and tension. I did not "see" these buildings in the classic synaesthetic way so much as sense them. These forms had "floors", "walls", "roofs", "windows", "cellars". They expressed volume. Music to me has always been a handsome three-dimensional container, a vessel, as real in its way as a Scout hut or a cathedral or a ship, with an inside and an outside and subdivided internal spaces.
I'm absolutely certain that this "architecture" had everything to do with why music has always exerted such a hold over me. I think music was the structure in which I learned to contain and then examine emotion. — Nick Coleman

Medicine cat' means nothing on its own, without an understanding of what should be done
which isn't always what you first think. — Erin Hunter

It's true that I've never had a burning desire to rebel against my parents. — Taylor Swift