Daniel Levitin Quotes
Even though we think we're getting a lot done, ironically, multitasking makes us demonstrably less efficient.
Quotes to Explore
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Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.
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Beware of addictive medicines. Everything in moderation. This applies particularly to the Internet and your sofa. The physical world is ultimately the source of all inspiration. Which is to say, if all else fails: take a bike ride.
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Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.
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The first function of a book review should be, I believe, to give some idea of the contents and character of the book.
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By the time I was 29 I'd spent eight years with someone else's group of friends. I had no idea what it was like to be a woman with mates of her own to socialize with.
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In thinking about it, the villains often have a little bit more range because their morality is different. You can have just a really good time as an actor, and there is just more there that you can explore on that side of the story.
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I love adventure sports. And, I love cooking.
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I try and sit on the fence because as soon as you voice any kind of opinion, people begin to think you're an idiot.
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We are saved by grace, not by the works of the law. But don't be so quick to write the law off.
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We have to still develop the Ikea group. We need many billions of Swiss francs to take on China or Russia.
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I only feel sorry for weak people. And mostly what I've come to find is that the weak people are the ones that are the haters.
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I'm obsessed with cooking! I want a degree in the culinary arts!
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Once we understand just how to control genes, we have the potential for spinal cord regeneration, bone regeneration, and so on. It might also give us plumper chickens.
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All the big online retailers are looking at how to enter the Russian market.
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I remember when the palm trees were short and Tomorrowland was modern.
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Fresh out of college, you tend to join a company because it's a job. But, you tend to stay because it becomes a career; you start to feel at home. In the beginning of your career, you're focused on you: 'I like this place because I'm doing rewarding work; they take good care of me; the people are nice; there's runway for me,' etc.
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Startups on the inside are always badly broken.
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If you like standup and decide that it's overtaking your life and want to hate it, watch 1,000 standup comedians who are trying to get on a TV show.
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What I find difficult about Buddhism, though it is also one of its significant fascinations, is the focus on what is immediately and physically present. To me, this seems a denial of the imagination, and the imagination is very important to me.
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As a young man, causes of one kind or another engaged me, and I thought the media is where you express yourself in that. I lived with the illusion, for quite a long time, that if you described something accurately, something would be done about it.
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None of us went to university, none of us went to college, none of us played in a different band before, none of us done anything. We were the last great band to come out of nowhere, on an indie label. We've sold 50 million records. That's still the benchmark. Until someone does what we've done, I'll always consider myself the last big songwriter.
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Even though we think we're getting a lot done, ironically, multitasking makes us demonstrably less efficient.
