Daniel Levitin Quotes

Daniel Levitin
Daniel Levitin
American Scientist
Born: Dec 27, 1957
Brain Music People Time You Your
Related authors: Ben Carson Carl Sagan E. O. Wilson George Washington Carver Isaac Asimov Margaret Mead Neil deGrasse Tyson W. Edwards Deming
You're entitled your own opinions, but you're not entitled to your own facts. Daniel Levitin
You Entitled Own Facts Opinions Your
Critical thinking is not something you do once with an issue and then drop it. It requires that we update our knowledge as new information comes in. Time spent evaluating claims is not just time well spent. It should be considered part of an implicit bargain we've all made. Daniel Levitin
Time Knowledge You Made Drop Thinking Our Once Considered Spent Claims Critical Critical Thinking Something Part Implicit New Well Well-Spent New Information Issue Update Just Information Then Should Bargain Requires Evaluating
I don't think I'm always right, but I would like to empower people to come to sound conclusions using a systematic way of looking at things. Daniel Levitin
People Looking Think Way Systematic Would Come Like Empower Always Conclusions Sound Using Right Things
There are not two sides to a story when one side is a lie. Journalists - and the rest of us - must stop giving equal time to things that don't have an opposing side. Daniel Levitin
Time Lie Rest Giving Opposing Side Sides Must Journalists Equal Stop Story Us Things Two
Our species uses music and dance to express various feelings: love, joy, comfort, ceremony, knowledge, and friendship. And each one is distinct and widely recognized within cultures. Love songs cause us to move slowly and fluidly, for example, while songs of joy inspire us to dance in a full-body aerobic way. Daniel Levitin
Love Friendship Music Knowledge Joy Inspire Cause Dance Example Feelings Love Songs Our Way Distinct Recognized Slowly Various Songs For Example Comfort Within Aerobic Cultures Move While Us Ceremony Uses Each Express Each One Species Widely
Even though we think we're getting a lot done, ironically, multitasking makes us demonstrably less efficient. Daniel Levitin
Think Though Makes Lot Efficient Ironically Done Getting Us Less Even Multitasking
Multitasking creates a dopamine-addiction feedback loop, effectively rewarding the brain for losing focus and for constantly searching for external stimulation. Daniel Levitin
Feedback Losing Focus Constantly Loop Stimulation Brain Effectively Rewarding Creates Searching Multitasking External
I don't think we should have less information in the world. The information age has yielded great advances in medicine, agriculture, transportation and many other fields. But the problem is twofold. One, we are assaulted with more information than any one of us can handle. Two, beyond the overload, too much information often leads to bad decisions. Daniel Levitin
Great Age Problem World Agriculture Too Much Think Medicine Too Other Twofold Bad More Advances Leads Beyond Overload Yielded Handle Than Any Often Information Information Age Decisions Fields Us Much Should Less Transportation Assaulted Many Two
What it turns out is that we think we're multitasking, but we're not. The brain is sequential tasking: we flit from one thought to the next very, very rapidly, giving us the illusion that what we're doing is doing all these things at once. Daniel Levitin
Illusion Thought Giving Think Once Out Rapidly Doing Brain Very Us Next Turns Multitasking Things
Unscrupulous writers often count on the fact that most people don't bother reading footnotes or tracking down citations. Daniel Levitin
People Reading Down Fact Bother Writers Count Most Tracking Often
Most jobs require some degree of creativity and flexible thinking. Daniel Levitin
Creativity Degree Thinking Jobs Some Most Require Flexible
If you don't get a good night's sleep, the events of the day are not properly encoded in memory. Daniel Levitin
Good Day You Memory Events Properly Get Night Sleep
The electric guitar and its players hold a place of privilege in the annals of rock music. It is the engine, the weapon, the ax of rock. Daniel Levitin
Music Guitar Weapon Rock Rock Music Privilege Hold Place Electric Engine Electric Guitar Players Ax
In a country that was still racially segregated and prejudiced, music was among the first domains in which African-Americans thrived alongside whites. Daniel Levitin
Music Thrive First Country Segregated Alongside Still Domains Which Prejudiced Whites Among
When do you suppose the electric guitar was invented? If you thought the 1950s, you'd be wrong. If you can muster a recollection of hearing electric guitar in Lionel Hampton's big band in the 1940s and date it to that decade, you'd still be off - by more than 30 years. Daniel Levitin
You Guitar Thought Big Band Recollection Muster Invented More Date Wrong Suppose Big Band Still Years Hearing Hampton Off Lionel Than Decade Electric Electric Guitar
Yes, there were piano bands and great rock pianists, from Jerry Lee Lewis and Little Richard to Keith Emerson, Rick Wakeman, and Elton John. But something about the electric guitar speaks of more than music - it epitomizes and gives voice to the rebellion, power, and sexuality of rock. Daniel Levitin
Music Great Rebellion Guitar Power Elton Elton John Sexuality John About Something Emerson More Voice Gives Piano Rock Were Lee Yes Than Bands Little Richard Electric Little Richard Rick Electric Guitar Speaks Jerry Lewis
Through studies of music and the brain, we've learned to map out specific areas involved in emotion, timing, and perception - and production of sequences. They've told us how the brain deals with patterns and how it completes them when there's misinformation. Daniel Levitin
Music Perception Timing Out Area Through Emotion Misinformation Studies Involved Learned Deals How Brain Patterns Them Us Production Map Specific
We've learned that musical ability is actually not one ability but a set of abilities, a dozen or more. Through brain damage, you can lose one component and not necessarily lose the others. You can lose rhythm and retain pitch, for example, that kind of thing. Daniel Levitin
You Example Lose Others Musical Kind Component Ability More Through Retain For Example Learned Brain Brain Damage Pitch Rhythm Actually Dozen Thing Necessarily Damage Set
I think of the brain as a computational device: It has a bunch of little components that perform calculations on some small aspect of the problem, and another part of the brain has to stitch it all together, like a tapestry or a quilt. Daniel Levitin
Together Problem Quilt Think Components Some Small Computational Part Perform Device Like Calculations Another Brain Tapestry Stitch Bunch Little Aspect
I actually became a producer because I saw the producers getting all the babes. They were stealing them from the guitarists. Daniel Levitin
Babes Saw Stealing Became Because Were Getting Them Producer Producers Actually
Music has got to be useful for survival, or we would have gotten rid of it years ago. Daniel Levitin
Music Survival Would Got Gotten Years Years Ago Useful Rid
Information overload refers to the notion that we're trying to take in more than the brain can handle. Daniel Levitin
More Take Overload Brain Handle Than Trying Information Notion
Some people like very predictable melodies, and others prefer the less likely notes. Daniel Levitin
People Some People Others Melodies Some Like Likely Very Predictable Prefer Notes Less
There's an ancient connection between movement and music. Most languages don't make a distinction between the words 'music' and 'dance.' And we can see that in the brain. When people are lying perfectly still but listening to music, the neurons in the motor cortex are firing. Daniel Levitin
Music People Words Listening Dance Lying Distinction Ancient See Neurons Firing Perfectly Between Most Make Still Brain Motor Movement Languages Connection
What music is better able to do than language is to represent the complexity of human emotional states. Daniel Levitin
Music Better Language States Complexity Able Emotional Than Represent Human
We need to take a step back and realize that not everything we encounter is true. You don't want to be gullibly accepting everything as true, but you don't want to be cynically rejecting everything as false. You want to take your time to evaluate the information. Daniel Levitin
Time You Back Everything Take Step True Accepting Encounter False Want Information Realize Your Evaluate Cynically Rejecting Need
Load more quotes

No more Daniel Levitin quotes

Haven't find the right quote? Try quotes from authors related to Daniel Levitin.

About
Site pages
Top Quotes
Authors
Today's birthdays
Copyright © Quotesia 2025