Theodore H. Schwartz > Quotes

“Movements become second nature as we enter what psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi called a “flow state,” where pursuit of a singular goal creates a transcendental state of purposeful concentration on the task.”
― Theodore H. Schwartz, Gray Matters: A Biography of Brain Surgery

“If you want people to depend on you, you have to be dependable.”
― Theodore H. Schwartz, Gray Matters: A Biography of Brain Surgery

“The point of this exercise is not to arrive at the correct answer but rather to contemplate the nature of identity. And one way to make sense of identity is to acknowledge the importance of time. At any moment in time, only one version of an object exists. As time passes, all things change.”
― Theodore H. Schwartz, Gray Matters: A Biography of Brain Surgery