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.Daniel Levitin
Quotes to Explore
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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.
J. R. Smith -
When I got back to Madison Avenue, I realized that copywriters made more than artists, so I switched.
Gary Jennings -
Art is subjective. I'm not looking for people's praise.
Tali Lennox -
Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
Xavier Becerra -
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.
Ramez Naam -
Race differences show up early in life.
J. Philippe Rushton
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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.
Warren Christopher -
If vaudeville had died, television was the box they put it in.
Larry Gelbart -
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.
Adam Grant -
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.
Adam McKay -
The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones.
Wendell Willkie -
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.
Barry Eisler
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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.
Garry Marshall -
Often with television, particularly with lifestyle entertainment, they really try and box you in.
Nadia Giosia -
On one hand, it seems like I've waited a long time for this.
Karrie Webb -
Love is a great emotion, but I believe it's not just about romance; it could be love for nature, people, for relationships.
Rani Mukerji -
I am now faced with mortality. Definitely not the most generous move.
Lance Loud -
One of the great rewards of a writer's life is that it lets you read all the books you want to without feeling guilty.
Damon Knight
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As an outsider to and observer of the restaurant business, one of the things I most admire about it is the risks people are willing to take.
John Lanchester -
My garden all is overblown with roses,/ My spirit all is overblown with rhyme.
Vita Sackville-West -
The great thing about Gospel is that you don't have to have an album every year in order to keep working.
Yolanda Adams -
Movies are movies, television is television.
Dirk Benedict -
Its okay I'm wearing really big knickers.
Louise Rennison -
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.
Daniel Levitin