Daniel Levitin Quotes

So much of the research on musical expertise has looked for accomplishment in the wrong place, in the facility of the fingers rather than the expressiveness of emotion.

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• I've never necessarily chosen to be a bachelor. I've had girlfriends throughout the last 20 or 30 years. It's just that there were times when I met people that fascinated me and times I didn't.

  

  Adam Clayton U2
  • People
  • Me
  • Years

• In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Heart
  • Words
  • Prayer

• My parents are high school sweethearts.

  

  Becky G
  • School
  • High
  • Parents

• I have spent much of my life where the boys are, first as a tomboy and then on Wall Street. Growing up, I loved every and any sport. I was frustrated by girls who didn't, so I spent most of my afternoons with the boys.

  

  Karen Finerman
  • Life
  • Up
  • Growing

• Poetry is not only a set of words which are chosen to relate to each other; it is something which goes much further than that to provide a glimpse of our vision of the world.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • World
  • Words
  • Poetry

• I'm a bed monster.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Monster
  • Bed

• If you go back to your home town or you're reunited with school friends, its always slightly bittersweet because as much as there's nice things in terms of seeing them again, the town has changed without you, and you're no longer a part of it.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • School
  • Home
  • Friends

• I used to hate performing in front of anybody, but I was forced to sing in front of family, at family gatherings. Then it slowly developed, and I started to love it.

  

  Fleur East
  • Family
  • Hate
  • Gatherings

• 'Rachael Ray does to food what Hitler did to Poland.' Attributed to credentialed chef Anthony Bourdain.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Food

• Where cultural representations do not reach out beyond themselves, there is the danger that they will function as the surrogates for activism, that they will constitute both the beginning and the end of political practice.

  

  Angela Davis
  • Political
  • Beginning
  • Practice

• I fear the vermin that shall undermine Senate and citadel and school and shrine.

  

  Edwin Markham
  • School
  • Fear

• Women's sport helps break down a lot of barriers for women in other areas, whether in religion or politics.

  

  Clare Balding
  • Women

• I think women's relationships with other women are very complicated and depend on their relationships with their mothers. Mine was fraught with problems. So I didn't necessarily trust women for a long time.

  

  Dawn Steel
  • Time
  • Long
  • Women

• Fashion is about owning whatever you're wearing, regardless of if it's a high fashion statement or not.

  

  Darren Criss
  • High
  • Fashion

• I hope that every film I make has something to offer in the area of making people feel either vindicated or different in terms of who they are.

  

  Beeban Kidron
  • People
  • Different
  • Hope

• When text messaging first came out, you could only text within your network, whatever operator you had. It seems silly now, but once those walls came down, all sorts of applications and services were built on top of that. It ended up being good for everybody.

  

  Peggy Johnson
  • Up
  • Good
  • Silly

• For me personally, as I said, I want to serve my country. I've done it once, and I'm still in the army, I feel as though I should get the opportunity to do it again.

  

  Prince Harry
  • Country
  • Done
  • Opportunity

• When people think of Mexican music, they most often think of mariachi, and that, of course, is one part.

  

  Lee Unkrich
  • People
  • Music
  • Mexican

• What sense would it make or what would it benfit a physician if he discovered the origin of the diseases but could not cure or alleviate them?

  

  Paracelsus
  • Cure
  • Physician
  • Origin

• History is filled with examples of men and women who rendered highly effective performance without the conventional badges of accomplishment in terms of certificates, diplomas, or degrees. Diplomas and tests are useful servants, but Congress has mandated the commonsense proposition that they are not to become masters of reality.

  

  Warren E. Burger
  • Men
  • Women
  • History

• No one paid attention to my offense. So having 2,000 hits is one of the things that is an accomplishment.

  

  Ozzie Smith
  • Attention
  • Accomplishment
  • Offense

• I still get excited just attending a final four, because the process is so long, so arduous, so challenging, that when it finally arrives, the adrenaline can't help but take over. I love the sense of accomplishment and camaraderie that the indoor game can engender.

  

  Karch Kiraly
  • Long
  • Helping
  • Challenges

• So much of the research on musical expertise has looked for accomplishment in the wrong place, in the facility of the fingers rather than the expressiveness of emotion.

  

  Daniel Levitin
  • Accomplishment