Daniel Levitin Quotes

The mind ought sometimes to be diverted that it may return to better thinking.

Shutting off the thought process is not rejuvenating; the mind is like a car battery - it recharges by running.

The mind should be allowed some relaxation, that it may return to its work all the better for the rest.

Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.

She unbent her mind afterwards - over a book.

Dynamic activity and deep rest of the mind are complementary to each other.

When you stop thinking about something, the idea comes to you. It seems to work.

True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.

When you are creating to the magnitude that I try to create, your brain is like a computer, and you need to refresh.

When you eliminate all stimuli, your brain is like, 'Finally, we've got some space! I want to talk with you about something!'

The majority of my life is 'Guardians,' but being able to clean my brain a little bit by doing something totally different like 'Belko' was incredibly helpful to the creative process.

I'm pretty disciplined. But your brain needs boredom. It needs routine.

Take your mind out every now and then and dance on it. It is getting all caked up.

Walking is the natural recreation for a man who desires not absolutely to suppress his intellect but to turn it out to play for a season.

It feels good. Kinda like when you have to shut your computer down, just sometimes when it goes crazy, you just shut it down and when you turn it on, it's okay again. That's what meditation is to me.

The greatest thinkers in history certainly knew the value of shifting the mind into low gear. Charles Darwin described himself as a slow thinker. Einstein was famous for spending ages staring into space in his office at Princeton University.

Fishing provides time to think, and reason not to. If you have the virtue of patience, an hour or two of casting alone is plenty of time to review all you’ve learned about the grand themes of life.

Time away from thinking about something is as valuable - perhaps even more so - than directly thinking about it.

I'm just thinking all the time. There are times when I don't really need to think. You know what I mean? If you think about stuff for five hours, you really only need to do like five minutes and the rest of sort of rehashing it and dramatically going over it.

Employers will give time to eat, time to sleep; they are in terror of a time to think.

we like fixed rules because that ends thinking and we can rest. But there is no resting place down here.

Our disrespect for thinking: someone sitting in a chair, gazing out of a window blankly, always described as 'doing nothing'.

It's a good thing to turn your mind upside down now and then, like an hour-glass, to let the particles run the other way.

It seems to me that making escapist films might be a better service to people than making intellectual ones and making films that deal with issues. It might be better to just make escapist comedies that don't touch on any issues. The people just get a cool lemonade, and then they go out refreshed, they enjoy themselves, they forget how awful things are and it helps them - it strengthens them to get through the day.