Jean Piaget Quotes

I was now successful in proving that a direction of movement is localized in the cerebellum.

When you play piano, your left hand and right hand are synced. Your brain basically has a clock, so that the right hand knows that 0.3 seconds after I hit this key, I need to hit that one. And the right hand knows not to hit keys that the left hand is playing, so the hands do not collide.

I'm so uncoordinated.

If you put a baseball and other toys in front of a baby, he'll pick up a baseball in preference to the others.

I flailed my arm in a throwing motion before I could even walk.

Abundance and vigor of automatic movements are desirable, and even a considerable degree of restlessness is a good sign in young children.

When you come in the club, people are trying to get your attention, so they pull your hand. It's like, why are you pulling on me?

When you talk about objects, one other thing automatically comes attached to that thing, and that is gestures: how we manipulate these objects, how we use these objects in everyday life. We use gestures not only to interact with these objects, but we also use them to interact with each other.

I never cake someone who doesn't want to be caked - at least, I try not to. Sometimes I miss my target. I'm pretty much going through the crowd making sure I find someone who wants to get caked. If you don't want to get caked, shake your head or tell me you don't want to get caked. It's that easy.

To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten to tout for flattery.

Our aggression is a deep instinct which survives in all kinds of manifestations in modern man.

The hand is, in the highest degree, a human characteristic. It is man's organ of grasp and of the sense of touch, while in animals these two functions are relegated to the mouth.

The presence of a bed changes the way people interact.

With art, your motor sense should be developed at full capacity.

Humans cannot avoid trying to influence others. Everything we say or do is examined and interpreted by others for clues as to our intentions.

Even when someone introduced the women as someone's daughter or wife, they maintained a distance. With the advent of selfies, people now want to click with all the touching, coming so close.

People in the U.S. are more reserved, whereas in Naples they'll hit each other and then kiss each other a second after.

I like to bump people, to feel me getting into somebody's jersey. I'm just different. I like contact, like physical play, like pushing and holding. But I'm not dirty.

You ever notice how when you get a new tattoo, it's like a magnet? People are drawn to it, everybody wants to touch it?

The thing is, I'm used to handshakes. Every time someone comes for a hug, I'm very confused. I'm told that I give out the worst hugs, too.

She maintained a careful balance by her window, never allowing the men to come too close, never allowing them to stray too far.

Interestingly, schizophrenics can tickle themselves because of a problem with their timing that does not allow their motor actions and resulting sensations to be correctly sequenced.

...just a little touches her and there. He puts his hands on your arms or back, he stands close to you, getting you used to him... it's a mating ritual. Like March of the Penguins.

She pulls away, pats me on the shoulder with three mini-pats, like those used to pet reptiles.

It's my job to look at other people's humanity and it's my job to, 24/7, look at my life and listen to everything everyone says, watching their faces, the little idiosyncratic aspects of human beings - it's like a sponge, I take it in.