Daniel Levitin Quotes
Procrastination comes in two types. Some of us procrastinate in order to pursue restful activities - spending time in bed, watching TV - while others delay difficult or unpleasant tasks in favor of those that are more fun.
Quotes to Explore
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There are recurring elements in popularized fairy tales, such as absent parents, some sort of struggle, a transformation, and a marriage. If you look at a range of stories, you find many stories about marriage, sexual initiation, abandonment. The plots often revolve around what to me seem to be elemental fears and desires.
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When I was in my early 20s, I studied tae kwon do and hapkido. I earned brown belts in both of them.
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The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.
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I think socializing on the Internet is to socializing what reality TV is to reality.
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Every different director has another language - for instance, Hitchcock does not like any bright color ever, unless the story says 'there goes the girl in a red dress.'
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I've always been extremely physically active.
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Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
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My father is an amazing person.
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I've always been about how will digital be transforming established businesses, and that's what I've done.
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I'm fascinated by the way Diane Arbus saw things. She came from this fashion background and then twisted it.
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In my job I meet many outstanding, world class, British based companies. But we need more companies and more jobs in the companies we have.
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Happiness is knowing and appreciating what you've got. I am very, very, very grateful for what, to me, is dead easy.
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Lupe Fiasco is kinda cool. I like him a lot.
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The Toast's audience is about 30-35 percent male, which shocked me because I would say that we actively try to discourage men from reading our site. Apparently, there's not insignificant number of dudes out there who think that what we are doing is okay.
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The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.
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American policies toward Asians reached a nadir in 1924, with the implementation of a law that sought 'to preserve the idea of American homogeneity' and denied admission to the country to most non-whites. Immigration from Asia was banned completely, with the establishment of an 'Asiatic Barred Zone.'
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Stand before the people you fear and speak your mind - even if your voice shakes.
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It hasn't been hard getting nominated, but winning it is another thing. The competition is tough.
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Human attention tends to be focused on the satisfactions relationships are hoped to bring, precisely because somehow they have not been truly satisfactory. And if they do satisfy, the price of this satisfaction has often been found to be unacceptable.
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With stand-up, it's more interesting to hear about people's failures than their successes.
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We in the Middle East like to talk politics, we like to argue. Just look at the three prophets - Moses, Jesus and Mohammad. They are all from this small region which creates problems all the time.
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We have to find out the technique by which the spirit whispers to our hearts. We have to learn to hear it and to understand it and to know when we have it, and that sometimes takes a long time.
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What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
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Procrastination comes in two types. Some of us procrastinate in order to pursue restful activities - spending time in bed, watching TV - while others delay difficult or unpleasant tasks in favor of those that are more fun.
