Daniel Levitin Quotes
The history of science and culture is filled with stories of how many of the greatest scientific and artistic discoveries occurred while the creator was not thinking about what he was working on, not consciously anyway - the daydreaming mode solved the problem for him, and the answer appeared suddenly as a stroke of insight.
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His advice to me is basically to just love what you do and don't let the fear of failure stop you.
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I do all of my good thinking at over 65 miles per hour. The speed limit is, luckily, the same speed as my brainstorming speed.
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I've stopped reading about the death of books because it's wasteful and morbid and insulting to the authors, agents, publishers, booksellers, critics, and readers that keep the world community of fiction interesting.
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A few months after NASA was formed, I was asked if I knew anyone who would like to set up a program in space astronomy.
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We have to surmount the difficulties that face us and work steadfastly for the happiness and prosperity of our country.
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Bowie is a musician, but he works like a painter. Thom always thought that we should aspire to that.
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Cultivate your curves - they may be dangerous but they won't be avoided.
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The trade magazine and all was banned in my house. The first time I read a film magazine was when I was 18.
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If I have a 100 percent batting average, you should fire me, because it means we haven't tried anything really noble.
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I think with 'Skinwalkers,' the success of it spoke for itself. Meaning a lot of people wanted to see something new on television.
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My biggest fear has always been being 40 and hating my job. I love challenges. I'm not afraid to try anything.
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At any Maroon 5 concert, you'll see a room backstage marked 'yoga.'
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For me, visuals are as important as the music. I just love escapism and giving people something to escape to. To me, that's what art is.
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In business, you're the Chief Salesman. Create a sense of demand, rather than waiting to have demand.
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I always have a basic plot outline, but I like to leave some things to be decided while I write.
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All of the religions are looking after the poor. At least leave me alone to look after the rich. I am the rich man's guru.
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I don't have the luxury of having a dog myself because I travel too much, but I love walking and cuddling somebody else's dog.
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It is true that women in Paris never put on make-up. It shocked me when I first got there – then I realised how much I liked it.
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The contrasts and contradictions that can permanently live peacefully side by side in a skull make all the systems of political optimists and pessimists illusory.
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I don't rest in my business interests, I don't rest being a husband, I don't rest being a father, and I don't rest doing none of these things because when you rest, you get comfortable.
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There are two sides, at least, to most political questions, and a politician's impulse may be to believe that the same holds true for science. Certainly, there are disputes in science. But on the question of climate change, the divide is stark.
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The portion we see of human beings is very small: their formats and faces, voices and words.... beyond these, like an immense dark continent, lies all that has made them.
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The history of science and culture is filled with stories of how many of the greatest scientific and artistic discoveries occurred while the creator was not thinking about what he was working on, not consciously anyway - the daydreaming mode solved the problem for him, and the answer appeared suddenly as a stroke of insight.
