A car can massage organs which no masseur can reach. It is the one remedy for the disorders of the great sympathetic nervous syste...m.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The child's personality is a product of slow gradual growth. His nervous system matures by stages and natural sequences. He sits b...efore he stands; he babbles before he talks; he fabricates before he tells the truth; he draws a circle before he draws a square; he is selfish before he is altruistic; he is dependent on others before he achieves dependence on self. All of his abilities, including his morals, are subject to laws of growth. The task of child care is not to force him into a predetermined pattern but to guide his growth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A two-week-old infant cries an average of one and a half hours every day. This increases to approximately three hours per day when... the child is about six weeks old. By the time children are twelve weeks old, their daily crying has decreased dramatically and averages less than one hour. This same basic pattern of crying is present among children from a wide range of cultures throughout the world. It appears to be wired into the nervous system of our species.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My advice to people today is as follows: If you take the game of life seriously, if you take your nervous system seriously, if you... take your sense organs seriously, if you take the energy process seriously, you must turn on, tune in, and drop out.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He remembered the dissolute adventures in which his senses, his nervous system and his mind had indulged; he saw himself corroded ...by irony and intellect, laid waste and paralyzed by insight, almost exhausted by the fevers and chills of creation, helplessly and contritely tossed to and fro between gross extremes, between saintly austerity and lust--oversophisticated and impoverished, worn out by cold, rare artificial ecstasies, lost, ravaged, racked and sick--and he sobbed with remorse and nostalgia.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The hallucinogenic world, in environmental terms, can be considered as a forlorn effort of man to match the speed of power of his ...extended nervous system (which we call the "electronic world") by intensifying the activity of his inner nervous system.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am willing, for a money consideration, to test this physical strength, this nervous force, and muscular power with which I've be...en gifted, to show that they will bear a certain strain. If I break down, if my brain gives way under want of sleep, my heart ceases to respond to the calls made on my circulatory system, or the surcharged veins of my extremities burst--if, in short, I fall helpless, or it may be, dead on the track, then I lose my money.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The prevalence of suicide, without doubt, is a test of height in civilization; it means that the population is winding up its nerv...ous and intellectual system to the utmost point of tension and that sometimes it snaps.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We measure the success of schools not by the kinds of human beings they promote but by whatever increases in reading scores they c...halk up. We have allowed quantitative standards, so central to the adult economic system, to become the principal yardstick for our definition of our children's worth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »