Daniel Levitin Quotes

The conscious mind can only pay attention to about four things at once. If you've got these nagging voices in your head telling you to remember to pick up the laundry and call so-and-so, they're competing in your brain for neural resources with the stuff you're actually trying to do, like getting your work done.

Daniel Levitin

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WorkMindBrainRememberAttention

Blueberries, strawberries and blackberries are true super foods. Naturally sweet and juicy, berries are low in sugar and high in nutrients - they are among the best foods you can eat.

Joel Fuhrman

BestSweetYouSugarTrueHigh

Before games and sometimes practice, I like something with a dope beat. Like Rick Ross, when he's just like, 'RUH!,' all that stuff.

Joel Embiid

PracticeSometimesDopeGamesBeat

When I was a child, it was my dream to be a professional footballer. When I was 14 I visited Milan's San Siro stadium and remember thinking how unbelievable it was. From then onwards I vowed that one day I would be playing there - and I am very proud that I achieved this and also for everything else I have managed to achieve in football.

Andriy Shevchenko

DayFootballI AmChildProudDream

A wild and crazy weekend involves sitting on the front porch, smoking a cigar, reading a book.

Robert M. Gates

CrazyBookReadingSmokingWeekend

I have so many friends who don't know how to cook.

Robert Rodriguez

FriendsKnowCookWhoHowMany

I've spent my life following my passion.

Roger Goodell

LifePassionMy LifeFollowingSpent

Nobody gets a nervous breakdown or a heart attack from selling kerosene to gentle country folk from the back of a tanker in Somerset.

Roald Dahl

HeartBackSellingCountryNobody

I think that certain things are funny and certain things are okay to make fun of - including myself.

Mila Kunis

FunnyMyselfFunThinkOkayThings

I was not thinking about infinite multipliers when I was 10. But I did have a father who was a Ph.D. in commerce and finance and an intellectual man. And so I had a feeling, probably about the time I went to college, that I would try to be a scholar and teacher, but I didn't know which field.

Michael Spence

FatherTeacherTimeManFinance

If people know too much about you, I think you become a little less interesting as an actor - your job is to fool people.

Jonny Lee Miller

JobFoolPeopleThinkInteresting

I took a job in the U.S. because I wanted to work on products that would get into end users' hands. In Norway, most of the jobs are in server software, niche stuff.

Jon Johansen

WorkJobEndHandsSoftwareNiche

God had to create disco music so I could be born and be successful.

Donna Summer

MusicGodBornDiscoCreateCould

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