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Daniel Levitin Quotes

If you hear on the weather report that it's going to rain tomorrow, rather than reminding yourself to bring your umbrella, set the umbrella by the front door - now the environment is reminding you to bring the umbrella.

Daniel Levitin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Rain Yourself Tomorrow Door Weather

You either keep the forest standing, which takes jobs away from indigenous people who need to feed themselves, or you cut down the trees, which affects the climate. In the long term, you have to protect the forest.

Johan Eliasch

People Trees Forest Long You Down

I think the reason I'm an actor is the joy I find from escaping and going to be somebody else. That's what I have fun doing.

John Glover

Fun Joy Have Fun Think Doing Find

Cezanne produced precarious little worlds that almost, almost, almost lose their balance but somehow hold themselves together, creating tension, beauty and danger all at once.

Robert Krulwich

Beauty Together Balance Lose Little

GPS is expensive because it is a very slow communication channel - you need to communicate with three or four satellites for an extended duration at 50 bits per second.

Robert Love

Communication Slow You Three Need

It is simpler and easier to flatter people than to praise them.

Jean Paul

People Praise Easier Than Simpler

Anywhere you go in the world is what you make of it, not what you read in books.

Alvin Lee

World You Go Anywhere Books Read

We have to do what I would call anomalies: we have to look for strange things that show up once in a while. They don't show up all the time. We have to be scanning the horizon, and doing that, once in a while something will show up that makes a lot of sense, and then you act on it.

Mohnish Pabrai

Time Horizon Doing You Look Strange

A world view is probably an expression of self.

Michael Leunig

World Self View Expression

Every writer loves the idea of being able to go in and fix a problem and then leave without obligation. It's fun!

Joss Whedon

Fun Problem Go Fix Without Leave

If the world is presented as resources to be exploited, then, more than likely, you're going to exploit the world.

Derrick Jensen

World You More Resources Going Than

I'm not a morning person.

Christy Turlington

Morning Person Morning Person

Love in all its subtleties is nothing more, and nothing less, than the more or less direct trace marked on the heart of the element by the psychical convergence of the universe upon itself.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Love Heart Universe Nothing More