Fred Crane quotes

Fred Crane quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“I am but a small shard in a grand mosaic.”
-- Fred Crane

#Mosaics Quotes

“I always feel the movement is a sort of mosaic. Each of us puts in one little stone, and then you get a great mosaic at the end.”
“Music, the mosaic of the air.”

Source : Andrew Marvell, Nigel Smith (2007). “The Poems of Andrew Marvell”, p.151, Pearson Education
“I became comfortable with what I knew would be the process of trying to pick up the pieces of brain that were in the rubble and tried to make some mosaic out of the pieces and that that would be the trajectory.”
“Without the hard little bits of marble which are called 'facts' or 'data' one cannot compose a mosaic; what matters, however, are not so much the individual bits, but the successive patterns into which you arrange them, then break them up and rearrange them.”
“Hold fast to whatever fragments of love that exist, for sometimes a mosaic is more beautiful than an unbroken pattern.”
“The emergence of a unified cognitive moment relies on the coordination of scattered mosaics of functionally specialized brain regions. Here we review the mechanisms of large-scale integration that counterbalance the distributed anatomical and functional organization of brain activity to enable the emergence of coherent behaviour and cognition. Although the mechanisms involved in large-scale integration are still largely unknown, we argue that the most plausible candidate is the formation of dynamic links mediated by synchrony over multiple frequency bands.”

Source : "The brainweb: phase synchronization and large-scale integration", Nature Rviews Vol 2, p. 229, 2001.
“We are not here to fit in...we are here to be eccentric, different, perhaps strange, perhaps merely to add our small piece, our little clunky, chunky selves, to the great mosaic of being...we are here to become more and more ourselves.”
“What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures.”
“Filmmaking is always sort of building a mosaic of this arc of what the character is going through.”
“To be anorexic...she thought, amounted to wanting to shed yourself of some of the imperfect mosaic of pieces that made you who you were. She could understand that now for, maybe underneath that desquamated self you would locate a new version.”

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