Quotes About Savant Syndrome

#1. Part of the function of memory is to forget; the omni-retentive mind will break down and produce at best an idiot savant who can recite a telephone book, and at worst a person to whom every grudge and slight is as yesterday's.

Christopher Hitchens

#2. I think this confusion leads intellectuals and artists themselves to believe that the elite arts and humanities are a kind of higher, exalted form of human endeavor.

Steven Pinker

#3. I think sometimes women who are supposed to be strong are also written as mean and vindictive.

Yancy Butler

#4. I just know that sameness, repetition, and conceptualizing are the acting craft's adversaries, and it seems more intelligent to start off within a framework where those things are, to some degree, taken out of your hands.

Jack Nicholson

#5. Incapable of emotion - high-functioning Asperger's Syndrome with areas of prodigious savant skills.

J.A. Huss

#6. You can be in love and you can be in a relationship. But they're not always the same thing.

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#7. Only those who decline to scramble up the career ladder are interesting as human beings. Nothing is more boring than a man with a career.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#8. A good show makes me happy. It's a great sensation. If you could capture a great atmosphere and do it every time, that would be amazing.

Bruno Tonioli

#9. I'm very reactive, I think. I'm down to throw down with people. Online, of course. Not in person.

Harris Wittels

#10. Art, its completeness, its formedness, its finishedness, had no power to console. Words on the other hand, were a lifeline. They left their hushed rhythm behind, a counter to the slow in and out of Emmeline's breathing.

Diane Setterfield

#11. I'm not a bourgeois person, never will be.

Etta James

#12. People who walk in audacious faith don't stop and pray. Audacious faith teaches us to push and pray.

Steven Furtick

#13. Bullet points are not the point.

Seth Godin

#14. Ready to give up so I seek the old Earth.

Inspectah Deck

#15. With every choice I've made, I've learned something new.

Ariana Grande

#16. All human rules are more or less idiotic.

Mark Twain

#17. Biologists have an adolescent fascination with sex. Like teenagers they are embarrassed by the subject because of their ignorance.

Steve Jones