Oliver Sacks Quotes about Passion

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I am a man of vehement disposition, with violent enthusiasms, and extreme immoderation in all my passions.

I am a man of vehement disposition, with violent enthusiasms, and extreme immoderation in all my passions.

Oliver Sacks

Passion, Men, Enthusiasm

Oliver Sacks (2015). “Gratitude”, p.13, Pan Macmillan

Darwin speculated that “music tones and rhythms were used by our half-human ancestors, during the season of courtship, when animals of all kinds are excited not only by love, but by strong passions of jealousy, rivalry, and triumph” and that speech arose, secondarily, from this primal music.

Oliver Sacks

Strong, Passion, Animal

"Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain". Book by Oliver Sacks, October 16, 2007.

I think the brain is a dynamic system in which some parts control or suppress other parts. And if perhaps one has damage in one of the controlling or suppressing areas, then you may have the emergence or eruption of something, whether it is a seizure, a criminal trait - - or even a sudden musical passion.

Oliver Sacks

Passion, Thinking, Musical

Source: www.spiegel.de

Scheele, it was said, never forgot anything if it had to do with chemistry. He never forgot the look, the feel, the smell of a substance, or the way it was transformed in chemical reactions, never forgot anything he read, or was told, about the phenomena of chemistry. He seemed indifferent, or inattentive, to most things else, being wholly dedicated to his single passion, chemistry. It was this pure and passionate absorption in phenomena-noticing everything, forgetting nothing-that constituted Scheele's special strength.

Oliver Sacks

Passion, Dedication, Smell

Oliver Sacks (2011). “Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood”, p.33, Pan Macmillan

Oliver Sacks Quotes about Passion

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