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   Oliver Sacks. Eye, Imagination, Brain. 146 Copy quote. Every act of perception, is to some degree an act of creation, and every act of memory is to some degree an act of imagination. Oliver Sacks. Memories, Imagination, Perception. Oliver Sacks (2011). “Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain”, p.127, Pan Macmillan.

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   • “Every act of perception, is to some degree an act of creation, and every act of memory is to some degree an act of imagination.” ― Oliver Sacks, Musicophilia: La musique, le cerveau et nous.
   • “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—himself—he cannot know it, because he is no longer there to know it.”
   • “My religion is nature. That’s what arouses those feelings of wonder and mysticism and gratitude in me.” ― Oliver Sacks.
   • “We speak not only to tell other people what we think, but to tell ourselves what we think. Speech is a part of thought.” ― Oliver Sacks, Seeing Voices.

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   Aug 31, 2015 · Why Oliver Sacks was so remarkable, in 6 quotes. The author and neurologist was so much more than a bearded and bespectacled New York intellectual. Dr. Oliver Sacks speaking in New York City in ...

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   David O. Sacks famous quotes Last updated: Sep 5, 2024 One-hundred-ten years of history, great diversity, lots of new earnings drivers and I just became a grandpa - twins.

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   • I often feel that life is about to begin, only to realize it is almost over.
   • Studies by Andrew Newberg and others have shown that long-term practice of meditation produces significant alterations in cerebral blood flow in parts of the brain related to attention, emotion, and some autonomic functions.
   • Biologically, physiologically, we are not so different from each other; historically, as narratives - we are each of us unique.
   • I am now face to face with dying. But I am not finished with living.

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   15 likes. Like. “I cannot pretend I am without fear. But my predominant feeling is one of gratitude.”. ― Oliver Sacks, Gratitude. tags: death, dying, last-words, life. 14 likes. Like. “I feel glad to be alive—“I’m glad I’m not dead!” sometimes bursts out of me when the weather is perfect.”.

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   Who was Oliver Sacks?

   • The author and neurologist was so much more than a bearded and bespectacled New York intellectual. Dr. Oliver Sacks speaking in New York City in 2008. When people die, there's a tendency to reduce them to something less than they were, to impose the neat arc of narrative on their otherwise messy and complex existence.

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   Who was Dr Sacks?

   • Dr. Sacks depicted such people not as scientific curiosities but as individuals who become as real to us as characters by Chekhov (another doctor who wrote with uncommon empathy and insight). He was concerned with the impact that his patients’ neurological disorders had on their day-to-day routines, their relationships and their inner lives.

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   Why did John sacks become obsessed with patients?

   • As part of caring deeply about people, Sacks had large reservoirs of compassion for others. This New York Times obituary, by Gregory Cowles, describes this very well in an anecdote about some of the patients Sacks became obsessed with during his tenure at Beth Abraham Hospital in the Bronx. These patients also inspired his book Awakenings:

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   Is sacks' diagnosis a preamble or an afterthought?

   • For Sacks, the diagnosis is nearly beside the point — a preamble or an afterthought. Since many of the conditions chronicled by him are incurable, the force driving his tales is not the race for a remedy but the patient's striving to maintain his or her identity in a world utterly changed by the disorder.

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   What did John sacks teach us about zoology?

   • Sacks understood our frequent ability to adapt, and emphasized that the capacity for someone to adapt to a particular condition—amnesia, blindness, deafness, migraines, phantom-limb syndrome, Asperger’s syndrome, and countless other conditions—cannot be known from the outset. These concepts grew from his study of zoology and evolution at Oxford.

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