Daniel Levitin Quotes

On average, successful people have had many more failures that unsuccessful people.

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• A thousand years will pass and the guilt of Germany will not be erased.

  

  Hans Frank
  • Years
  • Will
  • Guilt

• Being a gal, people can be a bit patronizing. 'Oh, look at you using the computer.' They would never say that to a boy. And I don't let them do it to me.

  

  FKA twigs
  • People
  • Never
  • Boy

• We're living at a time where if you do a Google search for a 'show, review and network,' you'll get 'The New York Times' and Pete Billingsley from a town you've never heard of on the same results page. It's kind of democratizing the process so that everyone has access to a distribution system to express themselves.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Time
  • Process
  • Search

• As Senator, I will always put the health and safety of New Hampshire's families first.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • Health
  • Safety
  • New

• My mother was against me being an artist. She just wanted me to marry a rich man.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
  • She
  • Mother
  • Man

• In our society, everyone wants to be a celebrity overnight.

  

  Oleg Cassini
  • Society
  • Celebrity
  • Everyone

• America preaches integration and practices segregation.

  

  Malcolm X
  • America
  • Segregation

• As long as you understand that you find happiness through family, friends and love, then money is just a nice bonus.

  

  Ioan Gruffudd
  • Long
  • Family
  • Money

• When I was working with Tom Ford, he would just look at me and ask, 'Will you wear it?' I'd say, 'Ah, too long, too short, lower waist, deeper V, unbutton' - that sort of thing. I don't create clothes, but I definitely know how to make them come alive.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Long
  • Me
  • Short

• It's hard to think of any tool, any instrument, any object in history with which so many developed so close a relationship so quickly as we have with our phones.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • History
  • Think
  • Relationship

• Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Time
  • Better
  • Morality

• Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force.

  

  Irving Berlin
  • Good
  • Great
  • Power

• Fans will express themselves. We will always have the best security possible, as we always do. And I hope that Cleveland and the fans, you would hope that everybody keeps it to a certain level, because anything you do that crosses the line isn't going to look bad for anybody but the franchise and Cleveland.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Bad
  • Hope
  • Best

• I have won many awards and I am very happy about this, but I am not the best player in the world.

  

  Zinedine Zidane
  • World
  • Happy
  • Best

• I'm very passionate.

  

  Abbie Cornish
  • Very
  • Passionate

• I love seeing people be successful! I love that. It's wonderful. There's enough room for everybody.

  

  Venus Williams
  • People
  • Successful
  • Wonderful

• I like to look good on the golf course.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • Good
  • Look
  • Golf

• I was wired to be intense. I don't think that's ever going to change.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Think
  • Change
  • Ever

• People tend to see modernism as the opposite of a celebration. They see it as a fracturing and an art built round an absence, but it's really a celebration of our existence.

  

  Ali Smith
  • People
  • Art
  • Celebration

• Since 2001, people have been scared. There's been some really scary stuff that's been happening - 9/11, Iraq, Afghanistan, Katrina, anthrax letters, D.C. sniper, global warming, global financial meltdown, bird flu, swine flu, SARS. I think people really feel like the system's breaking down.

  

  Max Brooks
  • People
  • Financial
  • Scary

• As musicians and artists, it's important we have an environment - and I guess when I say environment, I really mean the industry, that really nurtures these gifts. Oftentimes, the machine can overlook the need to take care of the people who produce the sounds that have a lot to do with the health and well-being of society.

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • People
  • Important
  • Society

• It's important to make women feel confident, because I think they are more important than men.

  

  Azzedine Alaia
  • Men
  • Important
  • Women

• It's good to be anywhere.

  

  Keith Richards The Rolling Stones
  • Good

• On average, successful people have had many more failures that unsuccessful people.

  

  Daniel Levitin
  • People