Charles Duhigg Quotes

Someone will write a resolution that says, 'I want to exercise more,' or 'I want to lose 15 pounds' - which is great, that's a great goal to have - but every study tells us that if you pose things in abstract, goal-related terms, it's much less likely that you will accomplish it than if you structure it as an actual activity.

Charles Duhigg

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GreatResolutionSomeoneLoseGoal

I think my service is better than my food... I focus so much on the service.

Jimmy John Liautaud

FoodServiceFocusThinkBetter

We cannot allow voters to fall for the spin that a vote to leave is the only way to deal with concerns about immigration. We can do far more to address both the level and impact of immigration while remaining in the E.U.

Jo Cox

ImpactImmigrationFallVoteWay

From '69 til '76, I never played in public. I would play by myself at home.

Robert Quine

HomeMyselfPlayNeverWouldPublic

I've had bad jobs. Now I have a good one. I'm thankful.

Maurice Greene

GoodThankfulBadNowJobsHad

Nobody is going to come into Alabama to buy lottery tickets. The only people that are going to buy them here are those that live here, and that's just a certain percentage of people.

Robert J. Bentley

LivePeopleNobodyLotteryAlabama

To make personal movies that you are the author of, is quite a difficult thing. It takes a lot of stamina.

Roman Coppola

YouMoviesPersonalDifficultTakes

My first husband would never make up his mind in less than five years, so I used to get him to think that whatever course of action needed to be taken was his idea. Then he'd go right ahead.

Mary Wesley

MindActionHusbandThinkGoAhead

There's three parts to football: offense, defense, and special teams. You'd no more ignore special teams than you would offense or defense.

Marv Levy

FootballIgnoreYouThreeSpecial

Street fight, you just ground and pound 'em. Boxing is totally different.

Deontay Wilder

FightYouBoxingStreetGroundJust

I'm always conscious of the fact that I am part of a profession that is 80% permanently unemployed. So, to be working in any sense is to be privileged.

Derek Jacobi

I AmAlwaysWorkingSenseUnemployed

I wasn't a kid who won every tournament I was playing, and I think that helped me - it motivated me a lot to know what it felt like not to win.

Denis Shapovalov

MeWinThinkKnowKidPlaying

I'm not really into the numbers game of, like, what position our record is. But you find out at the end, you know? You're like 'Oh, all right! That's good!' We had a Number Three record. That's crazy! What's that about? That's exciting to me! I think that's good.

Brian Fallon

GoodMeCrazyGameThinkEnd

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