Antonio Damasio Quotes

One usually thinks people to be more dangerous than they are.

Bolkenstein, a Minister, was speaking on the Dutch programme from London, and he said that they ought to make a collection of diaries and letters after the war. Of course, they all made a rush at my diary immediately. Just imagine how interesting it would be if I were to publish a romance of the "Secret Annexe." The title alone would be enough to make people think it was a detective story.

I think that you’ve got to make something that pleases you and hope that other people feel the same way.

I feel like people can feel when something is natural. I think they can tell.

People should be free to take whatever they want from music and I think that over time I realized that different people always find different things in my songs, which is really good.

You can't lay down laws for what people think and hope.

I think the bottom line is that we have to learn from what's going on in other countries. We have to learn from what people are doing to and live fully in really dire, hard circumstances, and then compare that to our own experience.

Fashion is like food! Some people like sushi, others think hamburgers are divine! People like different things!

taste governs every free - as opposed to rote - human response. Nothing is more decisive. There is taste in people, visual taste, taste in emotion - and there is taste in acts, taste in morality. Intelligence, as well, is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.

I think that people create the world that they live in. Your existence is very subjective, and you tell stories and organize the world outside of you into these stories to help you understand it.

I cannot articulate enough to express my dislike to people who think that understanding spoils your experience... How would they know?

I think the Europeans are a lot more spontaneous, more artistic to some degree. But I don't think they have the technical talent we do here in the states. Here people have been trained much more specifically - they know exactly what they're doing. The Europeans are perhaps slower, but in the end damn near as good.

I don't expect everyone to get something deep out of it. Some people can just listen to the music, or get their aggressions out, but I think with any great painting or movie, album or whatever it is, it's better if people can take what they need from it. That they're not forced to get some particular message.

You cannot say that all experience is of equal value for all people.

Certainly the details of our life are unique. Spending time thinking of how I am different from someone else, however, does not tend to be very productive.

Well, I think critics are very useful. But I think that they, in a way, betray their position when they stop people looking for themselves. Judgment is very easy, but I think, on the whole, professional critics maybe see too much, and compare too much, and forget the joy of actually looking and contemplating for its own sake.

People think that stories are shaped by people. In fact, it's the other way around.

I think my music is like anchovies - some people like it, some people get nauseous.

It is not what happens to people that is significant, but what they think happens to them.

I just always think, 'Do I like it?' And if I like it, maybe other people will come and like it too.

Don't think of people in the mass. That gives you a blurred view.

Sometimes you think certain details are things that only you would notice, so it's a great thing to feel like you're not by yourself and people understand where you're coming from.

What we know of other people's only our memory of the moments during which we knew them.

People strive to achieve a certain form of perfection constantly and it's impossible because it's a form of opinion. I can think someone is pretty but the person next to me can think that they're unattractive.

The critical task is necessarily comparative, and younger people do not truly know what is new