Daniel Levitin Quotes
If you're studying from a book and trying to listen in on a conversation at the same time, those are two separate projects, each started and maintained by distinct circuits in the brain. Pay more attention to one for a moment and you're automatically paying less attention to the other.
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There definitely will be flying cars, but whether there'll be flying cars for most people to use, it'll probably take a long time to straighten everything out, all the rules and hassles. It'll take a while to figure out how to keep people from crashing into each other.
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I try and take lots of vitamins and I don't drink. I do smoke, though, I'd be insufferable if I didn't smoke, you'd have to push me off a balcony I'd be so boring.
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Golf... is the infallible test. The man who can go into a patch of rough alone, with the knowledge that only God is watching him, and play his ball where it lies, is the man who will serve you faithfully and well.
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Especially working in infectious disease, it's very interesting because these infectious diseases, these agents, they evolve over time. So it's very much an arms race and understanding how each changes to protect itself and to continue. And so it's very much this puzzle-solving but with this great urgency and importance in what you find.
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Music is almost like a therapy for me. It helps keep me centered and think straight. Before I discovered it, I was walking around, and it felt like there were 25 extra pounds of gravity on my shoulders. It's like you're mute or something.
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All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
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I've always believed that if you are precise in your thoughts, it's not the lines you say that are important - it's what exists between the lines. What I'm compelled by most is that transparency of thought, what is left unspoken.
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Winston Churchill would be great to have around the table.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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Investing in Chicago property is just Wanda's first move into the U.S. real estate market.
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I wear a lot of boyish stuff, but I prefer to throw a fur coat on top just for the hell of it.
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I feel like there's so much darkness in all of my books.
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I live the way I want to live, and I don't comment on the way that other people live.
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Alleviation of suffering is my fundamental principle.
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Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
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When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have.
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I do think that I can sing, though I actually like voices I can't imitate.
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As I understand, the role of the federal judiciary, the role of our court system, is to provide justice.
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I find the past so fascinating. Photographs are strange, almost surreal, almost here yet gone. I slip into thinking what the past must have been like and I enjoy creating that ambience and atmosphere - 1730 to around 1870 is the most interesting period.
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Like De Niro. He's one of the best character actors we have ever had.
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Too many children in foster care are falling through cracks. Be a hero, take the time learn about adoption today.
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I don't think Spain will need any kind of external support.
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If you're studying from a book and trying to listen in on a conversation at the same time, those are two separate projects, each started and maintained by distinct circuits in the brain. Pay more attention to one for a moment and you're automatically paying less attention to the other.
