Daniel Levitin Quotes

The left brain is responsible for making order out of chaos, for making sense of things in the world that don't always add up. To do this, it often makes up stories, fantastic confabulations in some cases, just to be able to explain what we're experiencing.

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• In 'A Boy's Own Story' and 'Jack Holmes and His Friend,' my idea was to take someone totally different from my real self and, at the same time, to assign to him my own life trajectory.

  

  Edmund White
  • Life
  • Time
  • Different

• Reducing carbon emissions is important, but it is shortsighted if not coupled with reducing the toxic emissions from our heart; and that is something spiritual leaders are supposed to teach and something all thinking people, regardless of their beliefs, should practice.

  

  Radhanath Swami
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Important

• Even though I'm Hispanic, I'm so white.

  

  Francia Raisa
  • White
  • Though
  • Hispanic

• The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.

  

  Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
  • Life
  • Time
  • Real

• You can be socially accepted and tell the truth about what it is to be a woman.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Truth
  • You
  • Woman

• I feel like, sometimes, people, because of the amount of media, because of the amount of attention, people seem to think I have to do things. Like, I have to win right now! But I don't feel like that.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • People
  • Attention
  • Win

• Strange bonds of trust and self-deception tend to grow between journalists and their subjects.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Trust
  • Strange
  • Grow

• I eat two breakfasts, two lunches, and two dinners throughout the day. It's always eating.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Day
  • Always
  • Eating

• If you want to read and you want to draw, that helps you to express yourself.

  

  Quentin Blake
  • Want
  • You
  • Yourself

• Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • You
  • Better
  • Writer

• The interesting thing about blockchain is that it has made it possible for humanity to reach a consensus about a piece of data without having any authority to dictate it.

  

  Jaan Tallinn
  • Interesting
  • Humanity
  • Data

• Still falls the rain - dark as the world of man, black as our loss - blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails upon the Cross.

  

  Edith Sitwell
  • World
  • Man
  • Black

• I think that the greatest lesson I learned from my father is just having compassion towards people.

  

  Laila Ali
  • People
  • Father
  • Compassion

• The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Age
  • Youth
  • Arrogance

• We need to do things better, but in a way that makes sense.

  

  Nan Hayworth
  • Way
  • Better
  • Need

• I played, like, a year of piano until I learned the 'Pink Panther' theme. That was my goal. Once I was good enough, I quit. Now my music has to have some rock.

  

  Jack Black
  • Good
  • Music
  • Rock

• There's a personal story of my own that I will write at some point, and it's a film that I will happily make. It could very well be the next thing I do, unless someone shows me something great.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • Great
  • Me
  • Story

• Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down within incredible swiftness.

  

  Faith Baldwin
  • Character
  • Down
  • Within

• I love writing comedy.

  

  Mark Waid
  • Writing
  • Comedy

• We have tended in politics in this country to concentrate on the domestic, on the here and now - the 'what's in it for me'.

  

  Bob Ainsworth
  • Country

• I'm a huge Rugby Union fan, which is a bit like American football - but tougher.

  

  Alexander Hanson
  • American
  • Football

• The truth is, we pamper little griefs into great ones, and bear great ones as well as we can.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Littles
  • Grief
  • Wells

• Frankly, and let me be blunt, Wikipedia as a readable product is not for us. It's for them. It's for that girl in Africa who can save the lives of hundreds of thousands of people around her, but only if she's empowered with the knowledge to do so.

  

  Jimmy Wales
  • People
  • She
  • Girl

• The left brain is responsible for making order out of chaos, for making sense of things in the world that don't always add up. To do this, it often makes up stories, fantastic confabulations in some cases, just to be able to explain what we're experiencing.

  

  Daniel Levitin
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