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Daniel Levitin Quotes

When you're at work, be fully at work. And let your leisure time be what it's meant to be - restorative and fun.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: scientist
Nationality: american
Birth: December 27, 1957

Topics

Work Time Fun You Meant To Be Your

All the commandments: You shall not commit adultery, you shall not kill, you shall not steal, you shall not covet, and so on, are summed up in this single command: You must love your neighbor as yourself.

Love Yourself You Neighbor Single

I'm sure that had I not been a coach, I would have been some form of a teacher.

Teacher Coach Sure Been Would Some

Treat a boy like a fool and he'll act like a fool, I say, but there's some folks need convincing.

Stephen Vincent Benet

Fool Treat Say Boy Need Act

It was an interesting experience to work alongside the solicitor general's team and then turn around and argue against them. You certainly grow as a lawyer from getting such a varied set of experiences.

Work Experience Team Lawyer Grow

I reject most conventional wisdom.

Wisdom Most Conventional Wisdom

Oscar Charleston was the Willie Mays of his day. Nobody ever played center field better than Willie Mays. Suppose they had never given Willie a chance, and we said that, would anybody believe there was a kid in Alabama who was that good? Or there was a black guy in Atlanta who might break Babe Ruth's home run record? No.

Good Home Day Believe Chance Better

I have very few friends. I'm an associate of everybody and friend of none.

LisaRaye McCoy-Misick

Friend Friends None Everybody Few

In calling someone a bad guy, I reassure myself that I'm good. I elevate myself. I call it the 'Star Wars morality'. And unfortunately, it underpins most of the stories we tell.

Joshua Oppenheimer

Good Myself Someone Bad Morality

Wars such as those which have occurred in Iraq only allow hatred, violence and terror to proliferate.

Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

Violence Hatred Only Allow Those

People used to pooh-pooh the idea of a check-in, saying that this wasn't interesting. But when you have 3 billion of those data points, you can take any latitude and longitude anywhere in the world, and I'll tell you what is interesting now, 20 minutes from now, and 6 hours from now.

People World Saying Interesting Data

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

Failure Teacher Saying End Doing

I hate to say there are female and male ways of dealing with power, because I think each of us has a male and a female part. But based on my own experience, women will tend to be inclusive, to reach out more, to care a little more.

Christine Lagarde

Women Power Hate Experience Think

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