Daniel Levitin Quotes

Our species uses music and dance to express various feelings: love, joy, comfort, ceremony, knowledge, and friendship. And each one is distinct and widely recognized within cultures. Love songs cause us to move slowly and fluidly, for example, while songs of joy inspire us to dance in a full-body aerobic way.

Daniel Levitin

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FriendshipLoveMusicKnowledgeJoy

If you don't think every day is a great day try going without one.

Jim Evans

GreatDayThinkYouEvery DayTry

When you handwrite something, you're writing your most raw, pure thoughts. If you want to change it, then you have to mark it out, and people can see you laboring over that thought. I think even the act of hand, pen, and paper is much more intimate than with a computer screen.

Jenny Han

ChangePeopleThoughtsWritingThink

For me, every single thing I do seems to be about the process of letting go because that's what I so desperately need to do with so many things: with fear, with what people think of me, and all these things I've worried about my whole life.

John Grant

LifeFearPeopleMeThinkProcess

I've done tons of guest spots and in parts where the character invariably dies or is dead.

Jeffrey Dean Morgan

CharacterDoneDeadGuestWhere

Politicization - the shading of analysis to fit prevailing policy or politics - is the harshest criticism one can make of an intelligence organization. It strikes beyond questions of competence to the fundamental ethic of the enterprise, which is, or should be, truth telling.

Michael Hayden

TruthPoliticsIntelligenceCriticism

I'd never been in play long enough for the flowers to die in the dressing room.

Mercedes McCambridge

FunnyFlowersDieEnoughLongPlay

Most people who write and publish poetry teach or do something else.

Amy Gerstler

PoetryPeopleTeachWriteSomething

It's natural that I want to recreate a home.

Robin Birley

HomeWantNaturalRecreate

Eventually, the tribe developed so much confidence in me that they invited me to be their chieftain.

Roland Joffe

ConfidenceMeTribeMuchEventually

I've always been a news junkie, and an avid reader of newspapers and magazines, and this interest only ramped up during the campaign of 2016 and in the aftermath of the election.

Michiko Kakutani

ElectionNewsAlwaysUpInterest

One trick, known as the journey method or 'memory palace,' is to conjure up a familiar space in the mind's eye, and then populate it with images of whatever it is you want to remember.

Joshua Foer

JourneyMemorySpaceMindEyeYou

I think as long as there are folks on the fringe who want to make movies, the indie scene will still be around. I do think it's getting harder to get them seen though.

Joshua Leonard

ThinkLongWantMoviesWillSeen

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