Daniel Levitin Quotes
The conscious mind can only pay attention to about four things at once. If you've got these nagging voices in your head telling you to remember to pick up the laundry and call so-and-so, they're competing in your brain for neural resources with the stuff you're actually trying to do, like getting your work done.
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It is absolutely impossible to settle the debts to pensioners, teachers, and others. The country hasn't got enough money to do so.
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I feel like my story would've been different had I had a chance to play with Bron when I was 18. I've thought about it countless times.
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When I got back to Madison Avenue, I realized that copywriters made more than artists, so I switched.
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Art is subjective. I'm not looking for people's praise.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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I've read science fiction my whole life. I never really dreamed that I'd be a published science fiction writer myself, but a short story I started years ago sort of demanded to be turned into a novel.
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Race differences show up early in life.
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When I was a very young lawyer, I had a senior partner who advised me never to get mad, except on purpose.
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If vaudeville had died, television was the box they put it in.
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We all have original ideas. Even if we don't see ourselves as supercreative or as wild nonconformists, we have insights every day about how the world around us could be better. It might be a better way of running meetings in your office that would be less mind-numbing. It might be a little twist on a product or a service.
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I am actually talking about possibly adapting 'The Boys,' by Garth Ennis, which would not be a comedy, but an action movie with comedy elements to it.
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It's not what other people believe you can do, it's what you believe.
Gail Devers
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The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones.
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The two most important things to do for self-defense are not to take a martial arts class or get a gun, but to think like the opposition and know where you're most at risk.
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It's a hard job. It means giving up some things, but on the other hand they keep saying you can have it all. You can't really have it all so easy. You can do a little of this and little of that.
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Often with television, particularly with lifestyle entertainment, they really try and box you in.
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On one hand, it seems like I've waited a long time for this.
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Love is a great emotion, but I believe it's not just about romance; it could be love for nature, people, for relationships.
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Everybody has busy lives, but you can tell people, 'Go outside and look at the night sky. We've been able to demonstrate that every star you see probably has a planet around it.'
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The thing I'm most proud of is my family, the way they've turned out.
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I believe intellect is needed in order to develop any creative output and that intellect alone is not enough!
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For many of us, especially women, the gap between what we want or need and what our society expects of us is wide indeed, and we spend out lives trying to negotiate it. Trying to balance work and family, responsibilities and desires, all that stuff. It is not easy.
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The conscious mind can only pay attention to about four things at once. If you've got these nagging voices in your head telling you to remember to pick up the laundry and call so-and-so, they're competing in your brain for neural resources with the stuff you're actually trying to do, like getting your work done.
