Daniel Levitin Quotes

Neurons are living cells with a metabolism. And they need glucose in order to function. Glucose is the fuel of the brain, just like gasoline is the fuel of your car.

Daniel Levitin

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CarBrainLivingNeedGasolineJust

If it's hemorrhaging cash, you've got to do something about it. You can't live with your head in the sand.

Jim Ratcliffe

LiveSandYouHeadCashSomething

If they don't think, people act senselessly.

Andrei Platonov

PeopleThinkAct

The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare.

John Major

PatiencePoliticsGameLongRun

I loved Roger Miller.

Robert Hilburn

LovedMillerRoger

'New' movies are almost always hipper, faster, they mix genres aggressively, they smother their genre origins in new form, there are fewer of them, and they tend to cost a lot more money because you usually make more money on the megahit than you do on the steady progression of break-eveners. Except for the horror movie.

Stephen Hunter

MoneyYouNewMoviesHorrorMore

I'm interested in what would normally be considered the worst aspects of commercial art. I think it's the tension between what seems to be so rigid and cliched and the fact that art really can't be this way.

Roy Lichtenstein

ArtThinkWayWorstTensionSeems

Deficit reduction is not an end in itself. It is the means to an end. Canadians must now decide what kind of country they want to build with the hard-won dividend.

Jean Chretien

EndCountryNowWantKindBuild

I truly believe that the people who have a negative view of Trump will be pleasantly surprised when he becomes the leader of our country. I also believe he will make positive changes that will benefit the people who need it most.

Chuck Norris

PositiveLeaderPeopleNegativeView

I didn't have my own journals, but my mother kept a journal while I was in the hospital, and my father wrote newsletters to keep friends and family updated on my progress.

Brent Runyon

FamilyFatherMotherProgressMy Own

There's this notion that in order to draw attention and to be considered for roles I want to be considered for, you need a certain amount of notoriety.

Bryan Cranston

AttentionYouWantNeedOrderRoles

I have never restricted myself to my strengths and abilities, as they are unlimited, and I am still discovering them.

Arjun Kapoor

MyselfI AmNeverStrengthsStill

Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter.

William Inge

PastMatterNeverEventsDivided

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