Neurologists Quotes

• I wanted to be a neurologist. That seemed to be the most difficult, most intriguing, and the most important aspect of medicine, which had links with psychology, aggression, behavior, and human affairs.

  Roger Bannister

  Sports, Athlete, Medicine

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• There is a neurologist, a woman over at Harvard who wanted me to come talk to them, and in France I have a lot of readers in the sciences. I can't tell you why.

  Jim Harrison

  Literature, France, Harvard

  Interview with Robert Birnbaum, themorningnews.org.

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• Neurologists say that our brains are programmed much more for stories than for abstract ideas. Tales with a little drama are remembered far longer than any slide crammed with analytics.

  John P. Kotter

  Drama, Ideas, Brain

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• We shall abolish the orgasm. Our neurologists are at work upon it now.

  George Orwell

  1984 Important, Abolish

  George Orwell, Ian Angus, Sheila Davison “The Complete Works of George Orwell: Nineteen eighty-four”

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• The objective psychologist, hoping to get at the physiological side of behavior, is apt to plunge immediately into neurology trying to correlate brain activity with modes of experience ... The result in many cases only accentuates the gap between the total experience as studied by the psychologist and neural activity as analyzed by the neurologist.

  Roger Wolcott Sperry

  Brain, Trying, Gaps

  Roger Wolcott Sperry, Colwyn B. Trevarthern (1990). “Brain Circuits and Functions of the Mind: Essays in Honor of Roger Wolcott Sperry, Author”, p.27, Cambridge University Press

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• Dreams are the royal road to the unconscious.

  Sigmund Freud

  Dream, Summarizing, Royal

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• Human beings are powered by emotion, not by reason. Study after study has proven that if the emotion centers of our brain are damaged in some way, we don't just lose the ability to laugh or cry, we lose the ability to make decisions. Alarm bells for every business right there. The neurologist Donald Calne puts it brilliantly: “The essential difference between emotion and reason is that emotion leads to action while reason leads to conclusions.”

  Donald Calne

  Differences, Laughing, Decision

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• We live well enough to have the luxury to get ourselves sick with purely social, psychological stress.

  Robert M. Sapolsky

  Good Life, Stress, Luxury

  Robert M. Sapolsky (2007). “A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• If you listen to neurologists and psychiatrists, you'd never fall in love.

  Timothy Leary

  Falling In Love, Never Fall In Love, Psychiatrist

  Timothy Leary (2001). “Your Brain Is God”, p.81, Ronin Publishing

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• Symptoms, then, are in reality nothing but a cry from suffering organs.

  Jean-Martin Charcot

  Health, Fitness Motivational, Reality

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• There are relatively few atheists among neurologists and brain surgeons and astrophysicists, but many among psychologists, sociologists, and historians. The reason seems obvious: the first study divine design, the second study human undesign.

  Peter Kreeft

  Atheist, Design, Brain

  Peter Kreeft (1988). “Fundamentals of the Faith: Essays in Christian Apologetics”, p.27, Ignatius Press

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• I be more hipper than a hippopotamus
  Get off in your head like a neurologist

  E-40

  Hip Hop, Hippopotamus

  Song: Sprinkle Me, Album: In a Major Way, 1995

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• It is so wonderful to our neurologists that a man can see without his eyes, that it does not occur to them that is just as wonderful that he should see with them; and that is ever the difference between the wise and the unwise: the latter wonders at what is unusual, the wise man wonders at the usual.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Wisdom, Eye

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Richard Lee Grossman (2005). “A Year with Emerson: A Daybook”, p.192, David R. Godine Publisher

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• To fly in space is to see the reality of Earth, alone. The experience changed my life and my attitude toward life itself. I am one of the lucky ones.

  Roberta Bondar

  Life, Change, Attitude

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• There will be no one like us when we are gone, but then there is no one like anyone else, ever. When people die, they cannot be replaced. They leave holes that cannot be filled, for it is the fate - the genetic and neural fate - of every human being to be a unique individual, to find his own path, to live his own life, to die his own death.

  Oliver Sacks

  Life, Death, Fate

  Oliver Sacks (2015). “Gratitude”, p.14, Pan Macmillan

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• We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms -- to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Life, Positive, Leadership

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.55, Beacon Press

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• I come from a pretty scientific family. My sister is a neurologist and my brother is an engineer.

  Mary Elizabeth Winstead

  Brother, My Sister, Engineers

  "Mary Elizabeth Winstead On Set Interview THE THING". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. October 4, 2010.

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