Daniel Levitin Quotes
Music can be thought of as a type of perceptual illusion in which our brain imposes structure and order on a sequence of sounds. Just how this structure leads us to experience emotional reactions is part of the mystery of music.
Daniel Levitin
Quotes to Explore
I love French films, and I copy things I see in them. I read magazines and also look at Tumblr. I love nails, so I literally just search the word 'nails' on Tumblr and start looking.
Felicity Jones
What inspired me to become an author? I think it was the snow in New York. I looked out the window and I said, 'Well, I have to get dressed every morning to go to teach, but if I write a book, I can stay home in my bathrobe, eat candy corn.'
Patricia Reilly Giff
I created something that became a phenomenon without becoming a prisoner to it.
Irvine Welsh
If you are trying to get people to work on a problem together, it's best if they don't know where you, as the supervisor/manager, stand on the question.
Dana Perino
Constant reference to a 'war on terror' did accomplish one major objective: It stimulated the emergence of a culture of fear.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
I started traveling by myself as early as 5 to see my dad. I'd go to Toronto or Los Angeles, depending on what show he was doing, but most often New York, and we would hang out, and he'd take me to museums and Broadway plays. The ones that had the biggest impact on me were the George C. Wolfe productions.
Mahershala Ali
Honestly, all the sweets and bad stuff on set don't really call to me because I'm working so much. I've trained myself to stay away from sugar.
Taylor Schilling
I know I'm not a conventional beauty. You can read a lot of painful things on the Internet, which criticise you aesthetically - but as far as I'm concerned, that's not what an actress is.
Natalie Dormer
Music is my balance... center of my life.
Mandy Patinkin
I have a superhero complex. If I see anything bad happen, I run towards it, rather idiotically because, after all, what could I do?
Karin Slaughter
I only hope that one day, America will recognize what the rest of the world already has known, that our indigenous music - gospel, blues, jazz and R&B - is the heart and soul of all popular music; and that we cannot afford to let this legacy slip into obscurity, I'm telling you.
Quincy Jones
It's difficult to believe that Al Gore was oblivious to the existing laws. He has to respond at some point.
Barbara Olson
I'm trying to have some longevity in this business. If that means not working for a while and just picking the right job, so be it.
Aaron Paul
I do not like the idea that a Russian company cannot be successful without Western experience. I think that, at the end of the day, it is a question of bringing benchmarks from other countries. So far, the golden benchmark has been the West.
Maelle Gavet
I think there are lots of ways to make good work. You can throw big bucks at a project and make what some would call crap, or you can work very modestly with eloquently moving results.
Barbara Kruger
The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought.
H. G. Wells
I believe God put that desire inside of all of us so that we can evaluate ourselves in the light of His Word in order to become all that He created us to be.
Victoria Osteen
Normally, in the presence of radiation, communication links fail. But with autonomous robots, you don't need communications.
Vijay Kumar
