Daniel Levitin Quotes
If everything in the environment is utterly predictable, you become bored. If it's utterly unpredictable, you become frustrated.
Quotes to Explore
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Furniture is meant to be used and enjoyed.
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Indonesia is hardly immune to catastrophic breakdowns, as the anti-Communist pogrom showed. But, like India, it has been relatively fortunate in evolving a mode of politics that can include many discontinuities - of class, region, ethnicity, and religion.
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I have no interest in non-fiction. I don't read it and don't watch it and don't write it, other than a little journalistic column.
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Equality in education is my number one battle.
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Close friends consider me a literary snob.
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You parents of the wilful and the wayward! Don't give them up. Don't cast them off. They are not utterly lost. The Shepherd will find his sheep. They were His before they were yours - long before He entrusted them to your care; and you cannot begin to love them as He loves them.
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I'm very grateful to God for what he gives me. Victories, remarkable victories, but you have to go through the defeats. That is why I praise God for everything.
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You lose the speed before the stamina.
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Love is a credulous thing.
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Success begins at that magical moment when you declare to yourself, your friends, and the universe that you believe you can do something different.
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If my drug Ragaglitazar had been successful, we would have been getting royalties of thousands of crore rupees every year.
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I'm not quite as cool as I would like to be, really.
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If acting doesn't work out, I'm probably going to be a professional chef.
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I did not become great by association of The Beatles! Beatles make Maharishi great? Pah! It is a waste of thought.
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I need a stylist to help me pull together a wardrobe. I just don't have a lot of time to go shopping. So I have a stylist that knows what I want to wear, what cut of clothing I like, someone that really thinks and understands what my style and how I want to feel in the clothes.
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Since Sandy Hook, I have sat back as a father and been mesmerized by the inability of the federal government to do anything substantively on gun safety.
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Politics hates a vacuum. If it isn't filled with hope, someone will fill it with fear.
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Human beings are definitely changing the planet, but how much impact they are having on climate, I don't know and I don't care.
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I used biomechanics to save time when I was competing.
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As we look to the future, we cannot improve our living standards while simultaneously degrading the natural environment around us.
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My parents would definitely be my childhood heroes.
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I loved learning to fight and kill zombies.
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If everything in the environment is utterly predictable, you become bored. If it's utterly unpredictable, you become frustrated.
