Daniel Levitin Quotes
Many of us feel as though we are overloaded and overwhelmed by all the things that are happening, and we can't stop work for even five minutes or we'll fall behind: the idea that if we don't take breaks, we're being more productive.

Quotes to Explore
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You rarely get satisfaction sitting in an easy chair. If you work in a garden on the other hand, and it yields beautiful tomatoes, that's a good feeling.
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The minute I stop singing orally, I start to sing by playing Lucille.
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I have never been given to envy - save for the envy I feel toward those people who have the ability to make a marriage work and endure happily.
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Sofia Coppola is wonderful, and I'd love to work with her.
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It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label.
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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.
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It is obvious that the monetary union among 17 very different European countries does not work. As an economist, I know that the Eurozone is not an optimum currency area, as defined in economic theory.
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The only really conscious decision I made was to cast my net wide and if the work was good, to do it.
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We all wish to live. We all seek a world in which men are freed of the burdens of ignorance, poverty, hunger and disease. And we shall all be hard-pressed to escape the deadly rain of nuclear fall-out should catastrophe overtake us.
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Glory is attained from hard work, step by step.
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I don't hide. I never have. I stay at home because I like to stay at home, and at home I work.
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In my work in Haiti, I've seen the hugely positive effects that happen when people come together to build something in the middle of the most desperate situations.
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Making $30,000 on my first business deal was exciting, but not as exciting as the sudden knowledge that I did not have to work for anyone again.
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We must fight terrorism as if there's no peace process and work to achieve peace as if there's no terror.
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When you have a passion for something then you tend not only to be better at it, but you work harder at it too.
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Mixing in some rusty oranges is a warm way to update your place for fall.
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I was in college in the '60s, and the whole feminist movement had swept me up.
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You want to compete, and you want to compete at the highest level.
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It takes courage to stay young, to make your enthusiasms work for you. Don't let anyone drag you down.
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My most famous show is the 'Kitchen Show.' More famous than any gallery show or museum show I curated.
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If you are willing to jump in front of a car to save a friend, then that friendship is real.
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I've been judged my whole life. People always expected amazing things from me.
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The single-player game is a strange mutant monster which has only existed for 21 years and is about to go away because it is unnatural and abnormal.
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Many of us feel as though we are overloaded and overwhelmed by all the things that are happening, and we can't stop work for even five minutes or we'll fall behind: the idea that if we don't take breaks, we're being more productive.