Daniel Levitin Quotes

We used to think that you could pay attention to five to nine things at a time. We now know that's not true. That's a crazy overestimate. The conscious mind can attend to about three things at once. Trying to juggle any more than that, and you're going to lose some brainpower.

Daniel Levitin

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TimeMindCrazyThinkAttentionYou

The use of the wearable computer changes with each person. When this device is your way of seeing, or a seeing aid, it's how you see the world. When you use it as a memory aid, it is your brain.

Steve Mann

MemoryBrainWorldYouSeeingWay

It is important for all of us to appreciate where we come from and how that history has really shaped us in ways that we might not understand.

Sonia Sotomayor

HistoryAppreciateUnderstandUsHow

Many actors have protested about mobile phones going off in theatres, but the real menace now is people texting during a show. It may only disturb a few people around them, but for me, as an actor, when I spot them answering their emails, I am outraged.

Simon Callow

I AmPeopleMeNowActorPhones

I don't recall making a conscious decision to become an actor. I just remember winning a prize at a theatre festival when I was 17 and saying: 'Oh, that's what I have to do.'

Simon McBurney

DecisionTheatreWinningSayingJust

There is nothing we can't do. So it's just the fact that we're doing topics like that that other people, especially network TV, won't touch, that we're satirists.

Trey Parker

PeopleDoingNothingTouchJustTV

Once you start thinking about it in a mercenary frame of mind, then you're finished. You're a joke, because there are too many mercenaries out there already.

Tommy Shaw

MindStartThinkingYouFrameOut

I would never scream at my kids, never raise my voice. But as they often tell me, they were so well behaved that screaming was not necessary.

Marv Albert

MeVoiceNeverTellWellKids

I don't really try to predict what can and will happen with things. Sometimes you think something's gonna be a huge success, and it isn't. And sometimes you pay no attention to something whatsoever, and God just makes it into everything.

Donna Summer

SuccessGodThinkAttentionYouTry

I could only be frustrated right from the day I started in WCW and realized that it was a company run by a bunch of idiots that didn't have a clue what they were doing.

Bret Hart

DayDoingRunCompanyRightIdiots

I think I just have to be myself. No one can write the songs I do, and no one can sing the way I do - I believe that's important for every artist to remember.

Astrid S

MyselfBelieveThinkRememberArtist

I am not bothered with whether my characters are conventional or not. Because I am not in this for the designer labels and the autographs.

Sushant Singh Rajput

I AmBecauseLabelsBotheredWhether

I wanted to be a poet when I was 20; I had no interest in fiction or biography and precious little interest in history, but those three elements in my life have become the most important.

Peter Ackroyd

LifeHistoryMy LifeImportantThree

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