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Daniel Levitin Quotes

If you don't get a good night's sleep, the events of the day are not properly encoded in memory.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Good Day Sleep Memory Night You

It's an old-fashioned, very outdated, non-functioning idea that we can drain all the resources from directly around us and skyrocket to the top of a skyscraper, and that's success. We have to understand that when one has to leech from others to that degree, then that's something we need to watch and stop.

Success Stop Understand Top Need

I learned that if I put my mind to something vocally, I can pull it off. You just have to get your head-space right.

Mind You I Can Right Something Get

If we're so cruel to minorities, why do they keep coming here? Why aren't they sneaking across the Mexican border to make their way to the Taliban?

Border Why Way Mexican Coming Cruel

I love the wry motto of the Paleontological Society, meant both literally and figuratively, for hammers are the main tool of our trade: Frango ut patefaciam - I break in order to reveal.

Stephen Jay Gould

Love Motto Society Break Tool Trade

Adroit geo-strategists take new realities into account as they try to imagine how global politics will unfold. In the foreign policy business, however, inertia is a powerful force and 'adroit' a little-known concept.

Business Politics Powerful New Try

I wasn't interested in fashion originally. Fashion was for other people.

People Fashion Interested Other

Of course Stephen King doesn't believe in teen novels. I've started to suspect he doesn't even believe in teenagers.

Robin Wasserman

Teen King Believe Started Teenagers

Vladimir Putin is only going to respond to action, strength, and resolve. He's not going to respond to words.

Strength Words Action Resolve Going

Biohackers want to tinker; do fun science; and, in the process, accelerate the pace of biotech innovation.

Ryan Bethencourt

Innovation Science Fun Process Want

I'm always flattered when people on the far Left manufacture a new version of being 'offended.' They can be quite creative in finding something that hurts their feelings.

Creative People Finding Feelings New

Whether it's writing a monologue or writing standup or writing a screenplay or writing a play, I think staying involved in the creation of your own work empowers you in a way, even if you don't ever do it. It gives you a sense of ownership and a sense of purpose, which I think as an actor is really important.

Work Purpose Writing Think Ownership

Our voting records are not necessarily the same, but, you know, we're all Texans, and at the end of the day, we try to help each other out.

Day End Of The Day End Voting Help

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