Claudia Hammond quotes

“Mental time-travel is one of the greatest gifts of the mind. It makes us human, and it makes us special.”
-- Claudia Hammond

Source : "Time Warped: Unlocking the Mysteries of Time Perception". Book by Claudia Hammond, May 3, 2012.

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“We will never have total control over this extraordinary dimension. Time will warp and confuse and baffle and entertain however much we learn about its capacities. But the more we learn, the more we can shape it to our will and destiny. We can slow it down or speed it up. We can hold on to the past more securely and predict the future more accurately. Mental time-travel is one of the greatest gifts of the mind. It makes us human, and it makes us special.”
-- Claudia Hammond

Source : Claudia Hammond (2012). “Time Warped: Unlocking the Mysteries of Time Perception”, p.161, Canongate Books

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“You should not be carried away by the dictation of the mind, but the mind should be carried by your dictation.”

“The minds of stone lovers had colonised stones as lichens clung to them with golden or grey-green florid stains. The human world of stones is caught in organic metaphors like flies in amber. Words came from flesh and hair and plants. Reniform, mammilated, botryoidal, dendrite, haematite. Carnelian is from carnal, from flesh. Serpentine and lizardite are stone reptiles ; phyllite is leafy-green.”

“A good roast of sun, it slows you, lets you relax–and out here if there's anything wrong, you can see it coming with bags of time to do what's next. This is the place and the weather for peace, for the cultivation of a friendly mind.”

Source : A. L. Kennedy (2007). “Day”, Random House

“Some of my academic friends think Ive fallen from a very special grace.”

“Not everyone sees you the way you do. Sometimes our imperfections are what makes us special. - Tripp”

Source : Abbi Glines, Colleen Hoover, Jamie McGuire (2013). “The Atria Indie Lovers Collection: Twisted Perfection, Losing Hope, and Red Hill”, p.103, Simon and Schuster

“Waiting is a large part of living. Great, passive, negative chunks of our time are consumed by waiting, from birth to death. Waiting is a special kind of activity - if activity is the right word for it - because we are held in enforced suspension between people and places, removed from the normal rhythms of our days and lives.”

Source : Ada Louise Huxtable (1986). “ARCHITECTURE, ANYONE?”, Random House

“There'll be a special place in hell for the tape back-up people.”

“You are not a body. You have a body. You are a soul.”

“One of the great functions of art is to help us imagine what it is like to be not ourselves, what it is like to be someone or something else, what it is like to live in another skin, what it is like to live in another body, and in that sense to surpass ourselves, to go out beyond ourselves.”

“I've said this before, but I believe more than ever that confidence is sexier than any body part.”