Daniel Levitin Quotes

Because our ancestors lived in social groups that changed slowly, because they encountered the same people throughout their lives, they could keep almost every social detail they needed to know in their heads.

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• President Obama vowed in his State of the Union address to make assisting domestic manufacturers a top priority for his second term.

  

  Karen Mills
  • President
  • Priority
  • Top

• I'm not as goal obsessed as I am process obsessed.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Goal
  • Process
  • Obsessed

• I'm crazy about the Coen brothers, I'm crazy about Sean Penn. I love the usual suspects like Susan Sarandon, Meryl Streep and people like that.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • People
  • Crazy
  • Like

• I appreciate cooperation with Turkey on many issues. We are grateful for the support we receive for E.U. and NATO integration for Montenegro.

  

  Igor Luksic
  • Support
  • Grateful

• Whatever God or whatever higher power you believe in, they brought us to this earth in a perfect way, and you have to learn to love yourself. Otherwise, it's an exhausting way to be.

  

  Callie Thorne
  • God
  • Believe
  • Love

• I worry about whether SBA programs are still doing what they are meant to do - support lenders who fund good business startups and good expansion plans.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Good
  • Business
  • Support

• Wine and women do not go with song. Alcohol is the worst enemy of the imagination.

  

  Patrick Kavanagh
  • Women
  • Song
  • Imagination

• Power is the by-product of understanding.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Power
  • Understanding

• As a mom, I don't have much time for beauty.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Time
  • Mom
  • Beauty

• The running joke about the Premio Cervantes, the most coveted literary prize in the Spanish-speaking world, which was established by Spain's Ministry of Culture in 1976, is that Cervantes himself wouldn't have received it. This is because he was, in his heart, the most anti-Spanish of Spanish writers.

  

  Ilan Stavans
  • World
  • Heart
  • Culture

• I'm still number one and I just recently won a major tournament ahead of my toughest rivals so I think I had a few years ahead of me if I decided to stay.

  Garry Kasparov
  • Think
  • Won
  • Tournament

• An efficient government is dangerous in the hands of the wrong man. Sadly, the right sort of man never seems interested in the job.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Job
  • Man
  • Government

• To the best of my judgment, I have labored for, and not against, the Union. As I have not felt, so I have not expressed any harsh sentiment towards our Southern brethren. I have constantly declared, as I really believed, the only difference between them and us is the difference of circumstances.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Best
  • Circumstances

• Well, I - you know, the scripture says that God works by faith. And you have to have faith. You have to have trust in God so that God can work.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Work
  • God
  • Faith

• Spend time reflecting on your emotional and physical existence and how that applies to the voice. You have to apply that wisdom and experience when you sing - it's what comes through.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Time
  • Experience
  • Wisdom

• I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Painting
  • New York
  • Paris

• Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.

  

  Wendell Phillips
  • Always
  • Thought
  • Precedes

• The underdog often starts the fight, and occasionally the upper dog deserves to win.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Dog
  • Win
  • Fight

• Make the film that you love. When you find a film that you love, every molecule of your being will be moving in the direction of making the best film you can possibly make. This should be your default mode of operation.

  

  David Slade
  • Moving

• I don't ever remember a single day of hopelessness. I knew from the history of the labor movement, especially of the black people, that it was an undertaking of great trial. That, live or die, I had to stick with it, and we had to win.

  

  A. Philip Randolph
  • People
  • Great
  • Live

• I love seeing people having fun. Everyone over in L.A. is too cool for it. That's the problem.

  

  Lukas Haas
  • People
  • Fun
  • Cool

• I've got CDs in my car, listening all the time for that next song, because everybody's looking.

  

  Reba McEntire
  • Time
  • Song
  • Car

• Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.

  

  A. E. Housman
  • Experience
  • Morning
  • Poetry

• Because our ancestors lived in social groups that changed slowly, because they encountered the same people throughout their lives, they could keep almost every social detail they needed to know in their heads.

  

  Daniel Levitin
  • People