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Charles Duhigg Quotes

Conditions in Chinese factories are harsh. They're much harsher than they are in, for instance, the United States or any Western nation.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: american
Birth: 1974

Topics

Nation United United States Chinese

Three months. I was playing the organ for three months. It was a challenge for me in the beginning.

Challenge Beginning Me Three Playing

The gigantic Gaul derided the Roman soldiers as a band of pigmies.

John Lothrop Motley

Band Soldiers Roman Gigantic

Boss, life is trouble. Only death is not. To be alive is to undo your belt and look for trouble.

Michael Cacoyannis

Life Death Boss Look Alive Trouble

Writing is so fun precisely because if you take out the right adjective, the readers can decide what kind of book is in their hands. Suspension of disbelief should not be mandatory in contemporary writing.

Fun Writing Book Hands You Kind

Effectively, change is almost impossible without industry-wide collaboration, cooperation and consensus.

Simon Mainwaring

Change Collaboration Impossible

I think that many people are the victims of abuse every single day and can't stand up for themselves. People need to be able to understand that we need to stand united and that abuse should not be happening anymore.

Day People Stand Up Think Stand Up

I got 'Power' on my own through my agent and my team. I didn't know 50 until I got on the show. Because my character is so close to his, we spent a lot of time as friends. But even in that, I didn't really bring up music to him because I saw how everybody else was bringing up music to him.

Music Character Power Time Team Him

Ultimately, there are only two emotions: love and fear. And pretty much anything else you want to name can be broken down into one of those.

Mary Steenburgen

Love Fear Broken Name You Down

We're all flawed people at the end of the day; I don't know any perfect people.

Michelle Monaghan

Day People End Of The Day End Know

The media love to cover black people on the front page. After all, when you live in a society that will lock up about 30 percent of all black men at some time in their lives and send more of them to prison than to college, chances are a fair number of those black faces will end up in the newspaper.

Love Live Time Men People College

I don't focus on one thing. I play guitar and bass and keyboards and drums, but I never stay on anything long enough to become a specialist at it.

Focus Guitar Enough Long Play Never

I prefer to surprise myself as I'm writing. I'm not interested in it if I already know where it's going. So I have only the most general sense of what I'm doing when I start a story. I sometimes have a destination in mind, but how the story is going to go from Point A to Point Z is something I make up as I go along.

Myself Mind Destination Start Story

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