Daniel Levitin Quotes
The human brain long ago evolved a mechanism for rewarding us when we encountered new information: a little shot of dopamine in the brain each time we learned something new. Across evolutionary history, compulsively seeking information was adaptive behavior.
Quotes to Explore
-
I was just a kid, but I was a rotten kid.
-
I particularly like Hershey's chocolate - the kind which has almonds in it.
-
There's no doubt in the world that directing makes you a better actor. Me, anyway. There's no doubt in the world that it makes me a more collaborative actor.
-
I know that I came into the world with what I call 'big dharma' - with a blueprint to teach self-reliance and a positive loving approach to large numbers of people all over the globe. I am ever so grateful for the circumstances of my life that allowed me to be pretty much left alone and to develop as I was so intended in this incarnation.
-
Contrary to rumor, sometimes I can be quite a laugh.
-
Within NASA, the shuttle is perhaps the least-groundbreaking project. Recall that Apollo was about creating brand-new technologies that did something unprecedented - putting men on the moon. The shuttle is, by comparison, a relic designed to make going into orbit routine.
-
My MELD score was pretty high. And the worse you get on that scale, the sooner you get a transplant. It's based on how sick you are. And believe me, I was pretty sick.
-
I was born in England, but then I lived in Calgary, Saudi Arabia, Cyprus, India, Vancouver, London, Toronto, and now L.A.
-
If transportation technology was moving along as fast as microprocessor technology, then the day after tomorrow I would be able to get in a taxi cab and be in Tokyo in 30 seconds.
-
It is useful to the historian, among others, to be able to see the commonest forms of different phenomena, whether phonetic, morphological or other, and how language lives, carries on and changes over time.
-
If you care about injustice, and if you care about freedom, and you care about human rights, then you care about them everywhere.
-
I've traveled more than any human being who's ever lived.
-
These days, most nature photographers are deeply committed to the environmental message.
-
We've announced an Oracle Virtual Compute Appliance, a bunch of low-cost commodity servers running Linux, integrated in our case, with InfiniBand - connected with InfiniBand vs. the traditional Ethernet.
-
It's not until the very last phase that you know how good the works are going to be.
-
It's really odd that I've got this kind of sullen reputation - I never saw myself that way.
-
People that go through serious illness - you can either go one way or the other. You can either become despondent about it all. Or it kind of rejuvenates you, makes you focus on what's important.
-
It was sort of his 'Brando' moment - his very 'method' moment. He just absorbed it and continued on.
-
In 1952, I recited aloud for the first time, booming in Oxford's Sheldonian Theatre from a bad poem that had won a prize. I was twenty-three.
-
My mother opened a bank account for me when I made $60 on my first day of work as an extra. She's that kind of mother.
-
There is a lot of growth taking place in capturing aspirational consumers and converting them to luxury as they evolve.
-
We are not merely passive pawns of historical forces; nor are we victims of the past. We can shape and direct history.
-
The world is going to end for each of us in a prescribed time, and you sort of understand that your time is limited at a certain point, and you want to get done the things you want to get done. You don't want to leave things undone, because you only have a limited amount of time.
-
The human brain long ago evolved a mechanism for rewarding us when we encountered new information: a little shot of dopamine in the brain each time we learned something new. Across evolutionary history, compulsively seeking information was adaptive behavior.
