Daniel Levitin famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The emerging picture from such studies is that ten thousand hours of practice is required to achieve the level of mastery associated with being a world- class expert-in anything. In study after study, of composers, basketball players, fiction writers, ice skaters, concert pianists, chess players, master criminals, and what have you, this number comes up again and againâ€¦no one has yet found a case in which true world-class expertise was accomplished in less time. It seems that it takes the brain this long to assimilate all that it needs to know to achieve true mastery,
-- Daniel Levitin

#Basketball #Player #Ice
Music may be the activity that prepared our pre-human ancestors for speech communication and for the very cognitive, representational flexibility necessary to become humans.
-- Daniel Levitin

#Communication #May #Speech
Our bodies like rhythm and our brains like melody and harmony.
-- Daniel Levitin

#Brain #Body #Harmony
No one alive today has a single ancestor in his or her past who died in infancy. We are the champions, my friend!
-- Daniel Levitin

#Winning #Past #Champion
A bowl of pudding only has taste when I put it in my mouth - when it is in contact with my tongue. It doesn't have taste or flavor sitting in my fridge, only the potential.
-- Daniel Levitin

#Pudding #Sitting #Flavor
What makes a set of lines and colors into art is the relationship between this line and that one; the way one color or form echoes another in a different part of the canvas.
-- Daniel Levitin

#Art #Echoes #Color
Similarly, dance is not just a raging sea of unrelated bodily movements; the relationship of those movements to one another is what creates integrity and integrality, a coherence and cohesion that the higher levels of our brain process.
-- Daniel Levitin

#Integrity #Sea #Brain
Another possibility is that evolution selected creativity in general as a marker of sexual fitness.
-- Daniel Levitin

#Creativity #Evolution #Possibility
Those dabs of paint and lines become art when form and flow are created out of lower-level perceptual elements. When they combine harmoniously they give rise to perspective, foreground and background, and ultimately to emotion and other aesthetic attributes.
-- Daniel Levitin

#Art #Perspective #Giving
The power of art is that it can connect us to one another, and to larger truths about what it means to be alive and what it means to be human.
-- Daniel Levitin

#Art #Mean #Alive
Americans spend more money on music than on sex or prescription drugs
-- Daniel Levitin

#Sex #Drug #More Money
Ten thousand hours is equivalent to roughly three hours a day, or 20 hours a week, of practice over 10 years... No one has yet found a case in which true world-class expertise was accomplished in less time. It seems that it takes the brain this long to assimilate all that it needs to know to achieve true mastery.
-- Daniel Levitin

#Years #Practice #Class

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