Daniel Levitin Quotes
I've always been interested in peak performance, why some people do better in life than others.Daniel Levitin
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Being body positive is really important to your overall happiness. It's hard to see someone with a 'perfect' body and be like, 'Why can't I be like her?' But that person was born to be who she is, and you're born to be who you are.
Sabrina Carpenter -
When life knocks you down, keep getting up.
Malorie Blackman -
I know exactly what my values are and what I love to do. That's worth additional years right there. I say no to a lot of stuff that would be easy money but deviates from my meaning of life.
Dan Buettner -
We need more children raised in the optimum situation, which is between a mom and a dad bonded together for life.
Sam Brownback -
I still call Texas home. It is where I spent most of my life growing up.
Candace Kita -
The economic dynamic in Zimbabwe is perversely robust: while ordinary people suffer, black-market dealers and people with foreign bank accounts prosper, making them powerful stakeholders in the perpetuation of devastating economic policies.
Samantha Power
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You take so much on as a therapist: you just sit there and listen to people talk with you, and you're trying to help people, and it can be draining.
Samira Wiley -
Sometimes, you're going 24 hours a day, seven days a week for a few months, and then you come home, and you wonder what you're doing with your life and why. At least, that's the experience I've had.
Verite -
You gotta have life your way. If you ain't losing your mind, you ain't partying right.
Young Jeezy -
Crazy old people are our entire source of polling information.
P. J. O'Rourke -
We know that the elements in play in a show like 'Confederate' are much more raw, much more real, and people come into them much more sensitive and more invested, than they do with a story about a place called 'Westeros,' which none of them had ever heard of before they read the books or watched the show.
D. B. Weiss -
As a child I experienced firsthand the severe effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially upon women and children. My parents taught me the importance of education and that it was a key to improving an individual's life.
Naveen Jain
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I wish people would be a bit more aware of how their actions affect everyone around them.
Ed Stoppard -
Like many other women, I could not understand why every man who changed a diaper has felt impelled, in recent years, to write a book about it.
Barbara Ehrenreich -
I motivate what I see in young people because we employ about forty thousand young people in our various Chick-fil-A units. Some of them come to work because they need to work; others just work because they just like to work. There's nothing wrong with that.
S. Truett Cathy -
It's true: I don't remember what life was like before parenthood.
Vera Farmiga -
Writers are historians, too. It is in literature that the greater truths about a people and their past are found.
F. Sionil Jose -
I wanted to be an actor when I saw the movie 'Die Hard.' I saw Bruce Willis shooting guns and blowing stuff up, and I thought, 'I wanna do that.' It really had nothing to do with acting; I just wanted a job that allowed me to do fun, bigger-than-life stuff.
Zach Gilford
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The people of Somalia just do not have a voice. They are to me the most forgotten people in the world.
Keinan Abdi Warsame -
All through my senior year, luckily, I didn't have too many hard classes, just a lot of electives. I was able to spend most of my time at the practice space.
Brendon Urie Panic! at the Disco -
I was a choir boy for 3 years in high school at St. George's in Newport, Rhode Island.
Billy Bush -
The phenomenon of university creative writing programs doesn't exist in France. The whole idea is regarded as a novelty, or an oddity.
Marilyn Hacker -
I'm the voice of a Chipotle Burrito. The world has changed.
Jeffrey Tambor -
I've always been interested in peak performance, why some people do better in life than others.
Daniel Levitin