"There is certainly a universal and unconscious propensity to impose a rhythm even when one hears a series of identical sounds at constant intervals... We tend to hear the sound of a digital clock, for example, as "tick-tock, tick-tock" - even though it is actually "tick tick, tick tick."

-- Oliver Sacks

#Sound Quotes #Example Quotes #Digital Quotes

“Stay true to what you believe in and don't let people try to change that direction. Don't take 'no' for an answer.”
“Meaning lies in the confrontation of contradiction - the coincidencia apositorum. Thatâ€™s what we really feel, not these rational schemes that are constantly beating us over the head with the â€œthou shaltsâ€ and â€œthou shouldâ€, but rather a recovery of the real ambiguity of being and an ability to see ourselves as at once powerful and weak, noble and ignoble, future-oriented, past-facing.”
“A lot of kids do look up to us. But there are just as many elderly people to put us down.”
“I could promise that I'll always be true to you, but we may not live to be so old.”
“I am dead because I have no desire, I have no desire because I think I possess, I think I possess because I do not try to give; Trying to give, we see that we have nothing; Seeing that we have nothing, we try to give ourselves, Trying to give ourselves, we see that we are nothing, Seeing that we are nothing, we desire to become, Desiring to become, we live.”
“Today many American corporations spend a great deal of money and time trying to increase the originality of their employees, hoping thereby to get a competitive edge in the marketplace. But such programs make no difference unless management also learns to recognize the valuable ideas among the many novel ones, and then finds ways of implementing them.”
“I think a lot of films do themselves a disfavor by putting in way too much information, and everyone knows what's gonna happen next, and no one can actually discover things as they go.”

Source : "Sean Durkin and Elizabeth Olsen". Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. OCtober 19, 2011.
“My thoughts, I guess, are bitter: who but the bitter have thoughts?”

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