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Daniel Levitin Quotes

Use the environment to remind you of what needs to be done. If you're afraid you'll forget to buy milk on the way home, put an empty milk carton on the seat next to you in the car or in the backpack you carry to work on the subway.

Daniel Levitin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Work Home Car Environment You Done

One of my biggest fears is thinking that there are people in my house when I'm home alone.

Jessica Parker Kennedy

Home Alone People Thinking House

I couldn't really experience being an author when I was still working in publishing - I was trying to negotiate being both. Sometimes the knowledge doesn't translate between the two roles.

Jennifer Gilmore

Knowledge Experience Trying Sometimes

We're not going to scrap the budget and make up some totally new platform the day after the election. So it's certainly willingness to compromise but we're not going back on the fundamental things we're running on in this campaign.

Stephen Harper

Day Compromise Budget Back Election

We all need to look into the dark side of our nature - that's where the energy is, the passion. People are afraid of that because it holds pieces of us we're busy denying.

Sue Grafton

Nature Passion People Energy Busy

I'm going to be the unapologetic chief advocate, chief salesman for American agriculture products around the world. You grow 'em, we're going to sell 'em.

Sonny Perdue

World Grow American You Agriculture

Let the answer hang there for two or three or four seconds.

Mike Wallace

Three Two Hang Answer Four Seconds

A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.

Michel de Montaigne

Man Wise Wise Man He Much Ought

Catcher in the Rye had a profound impact on me-the idea that we all have lots of dreams that are slowly being chipped away as we grow up.

Judd Nelson

Dreams Impact Grow Grow Up Profound

Campaigning ain't tough.

Jason Kander

Tough Campaigning

When terrorists blew up the Marine barracks in Lebanon, Reagan was frustrated and furious, as Bush was after 9/11. But he didn't stick us in a war in the Middle East with no exit.

Douglas Brinkley

War Exit Up Stick Us Middle

People such as Hunter S. Thompson and the Beats were a huge influence on me, not just in what they were saying, but how they said it.

Corey Taylor

People Me Influence Saying Said How

Stand-up comedy is all you. It's your show, it's your game. You control every aspect of it - of that experience and that expression. There's really nothing quite as satisfying.

Bryan Callen

Experience Control Game Comedy You