Daniel Levitin Quotes

Even though we think we're getting a lot done, ironically, multitasking makes us demonstrably less efficient.

Daniel Levitin

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ThinkDoneUsEvenThoughEfficient

When your dad comes back from a faraway land with bows and arrows and spears wrapped up in a carpet... that's cool.

Joe Alwyn

CoolBackLandUpCarpetArrows

At primary school, me and my best friend used to do D.I.Y. assemblies, and we'd do it as many times as we could until we got banned! We used to sing 'Hero' by Mariah Carey; it was, like, my favourite song; we were obsessed with it. We'd do it as a duet, and it's the first I remember performing.

Jess Glynne

FriendHeroBestSchoolMeSong

Every single country that has an auto industry is stepping forward to help that auto industry. Why wouldn't we help this industry too, because it needs 3.5 million jobs.

Jennifer Granholm

ForwardHelpCountryWhySingle

Only World War II, which mobilized 10 million draftees, could by any stretch of the imagination be called a people's war.

John Gregory Dunne

ImaginationWarPeopleWorldStretch

I'm a geek. I love SF and fantasy. I listen to metal. I follow the Oakland Raiders and the Orlando Magic.

John Joseph Adams

LoveMagicFantasyListenFollow

The third stage was the reaction that came when the body struggled to compensate for its ills - when, for instance, the white count not only returned to normal but increased to much higher than normal levels.

John Hersey

BodyWhiteReactionStageCount

I have been stared at my whole life because of my height.

Meredith Eaton

LifeHeightBecauseWholeBeen

Disillusionment can come as fast as a gust, but building faith that the government won't inflate again is like building a new sailboat, a project of years.

Amity Shlaes

FaithGovernmentBuildingFastNew

I try to do anything I can to quicken things up.

Stefon Diggs

I CanTryUpAnythingThings

I love to box. I once took a kickboxing class in college and got totally hooked.

Sophia Bush

LoveCollegeClassBoxGotOnce

I'm not religious. I would say I'm more spiritual than religious.

Roxanne McKee

SpiritualSayMoreWouldReligious

I think, like a lot of actors and people in the arts who are struggling to get where they want to be, you spend a lot of time sitting around grumbling about how you're not doing the kind of work you really want to do. But there's a lot of complacency in that, too.

Mary Elizabeth Winstead

WorkTimePeopleComplacencyThink

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