Daniel Levitin Quotes
Prior to the invention of writing, our ancestors had to rely on memory, sketches, or music to encode and preserve important information.
Daniel Levitin
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The thing that makes writing so difficult is you don't have the element of serendipity. At least with a photograph, you can set up the camera, and something might happen. You might be a lousy photographer, but you can get a good picture if you just take enough of them.
Sally Mann
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Yes, I believe the will is very important. It's how I have succeeded in life.
G. Gordon Liddy
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Because I find writing painful, I try to get it over with as fast as possible. But I write every day, or I lose the thread.
Patrick Modiano
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The morning is always my best time of the day for writing because that's when my head is best.
Zoe Foster Blake
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A lazy man works twice as hard. My mother told that to me, and now I say it to my kids. If you're writing an essay, keep it in the lines and in the margins so you don't have to do it over.
Gary Oldman
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There's the Bacon society, which is fostered by his fourth wife Helen Bacon, but I don't know what kind of performances his music gets. He wrote symphonic music and some chorale music.
Carlisle Floyd
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As a poet or a novelist or a painter, you are pushing yourself all the time, always looking for a new way to approach something, challenging yourself and never, never trying to write the same book twice.
Paul Auster
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Informal relationships are not mere minor interstitial supplements to the major institutions of society. These informal relationships not only include important decision-making processes, such as the family, but also produce much of the background social capital without which the other major institutions of society could not function nearly as effectively as they do.
Thomas Sowell
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Dad was the first man I fell in love with. He was a very funny man. He grew up in the East End of London and was very dynamic, and I understood why my mother fell in love with him.
Patsy Kensit
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When we learn from experience, the scars of sin can lead us to restoration and a renewed intimacy with God.
Charles Stanley
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Prior to the invention of writing, our ancestors had to rely on memory, sketches, or music to encode and preserve important information.
Daniel Levitin
