Charles Duhigg Quotes

We love to receive praise, but usually we're not certain what message, precisely, we should take from it. On the other hand, when someone points out our flaws, we realize immediately that something needs to change.

Charles Duhigg

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I was 21 and had been going out with my boyfriend for two years when I found out I was pregnant - despite being told by doctors that I was sterile. Jamie's father and I hadn't discussed marriage, and to me, it wasn't something to be entered into just to stop gossip.

Joanna Lumley

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A pool is water, made available and useful, and is, as such, infinitely soothing to the western eye.

Joan Didion

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I think it's human nature that if we don't have our own family, we will create a family, because it's human nature, and it's that element of trust and dependency and love and all of those sort of things.

John Hillcoat

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The purpose of farming is to deprive other species of the land and sequester it for our own use. But by perfecting the art of monoculture, it has become too easy for us to exterminate everything else, leaving no wild plants, no food for insects, and a barren land for birds.

Tristram Stuart

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Unfortunately, we haven't found many very old rocks on Earth because our planet's surface is constantly renewed by plate tectonics, coupled with erosion.

Robert Duncan

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Heroes are people who rise to the occasion and slip quietly away.

Tom Brokaw

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I don't think the arts would have been as meaningful to me if I hadn't grown up in Harlem.

Ruby Dee

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I have interviewed face-to-face, sitting beside me, over 19,000 people.

Montel Williams

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I look forward to a life partner who can look after me and respect me.

Divyanka Tripathi

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It's just about being an entertainer; it's about having all those tools over the years to do all sorts: films, musicals, playing a bit of piano, running a quiz show - it just becomes part of the job.

Bradley Walsh

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It was an argument of rare power and eloquence.

William Henry Moody

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The living Church of the redeemed is his book. He founded a religion of the living spirit, not of a written code, like the Mosaic law. Yet his words and deeds are recorded by as honest and reliable witnesses as ever put pen to paper.

Philip Schaff

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