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Daniel Levitin Quotes

The obvious rule of efficiency is you don't want to spend more time organizing than it's worth.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Time Efficiency Worth You Organizing

I never go to the gym - I can't be doing with it. But I run up and down the stairs, wash my feet in the basin to keep supple, and I don't eat things that have a pulse.

Feet Doing Gym Down Stairs Run

My grandmother told me: 'Never be in debt to anyone or anything.' Which is probably why I've never been financially extravagant - I still go to Costco. I'm always conscious of living within my means.

Me Go Living Why Grandmother Never

I can list on one hand the famous science fiction writers I never met.

Robert Silverberg

Science Famous I Can Hand Never Met

Florida is a place of unparalleled diversity of backgrounds, experiences and vision. It makes our culture unique, but it can also make it difficult to define a common identity and create a sense of community that reaches beyond our neighborhoods to all corners of our state.

Community Vision Culture Diversity

If an immigrant comes here, and they're willing to create jobs, and they're willing to contribute to our economy, we have to make it easier for the kinds of immigrants we want, because that is the past of America; that's our greatness, and that will continue to be our greatness in the future.

Future Past Greatness America Create

Because education is the backbone of a competitive workforce and successful economy, making it a priority is not uncommon.

Michael F. Easley

Education Economy Workforce Backbone

Very often, people are obsessed with what others think of them. It's like if a flower wants to be a cactus or a palm but it's not. A flower is a flower, and that's enough. That's all you have to do is be a flower.

Flower People Think Enough You Palm

Looking for perfection is the only way to motivate yourself.

Ronnie O'Sullivan

Perfection Yourself Looking Way Only

When I was younger, I was ready to go off at any time. My wife, Linda, and I would go out to the Limelight in New York, and I would see people and be able to freeze them with a look. People were even too scared of me to tell me that people were scared of me.

Time Wife New York People Me Look

I was born in 1949, and by the time I was 10, I figured out that my hope chest was not aimed in the same direction everybody else's was. And that life was going to be very, very complicated. And that I could either be provocative and declamatory, or shy, retiring and scared.

Dorothy Allison

Life Hope Time Direction Born Shy

I am very much a family man.

Family Man I Am Family Man Much Am

One of the joys of being a grandparent is getting to see the world again through the eyes of a child.

Eyes Child World See Through Being

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