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Charles Duhigg Quotes

For Aristotle, habits reigned supreme. The behaviors that occur unthinkingly are the evidence of our truest selves.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: american
Birth: 1974

Topics

Evidence Habits Supreme Our Truest

I hate it when there's a good movie, someone overhypes it and I'm disappointed that I don't like it more.

Good Hate Someone More Good Movie

I remember working with Ray Charles when I was quite young, and I would wonder, 'Why would he sing 'Georgia On My Mind' and 'I Can't Stop Loving You' every night?' I said, 'Oh my God if I have to sing these songs, if I have to sing 'I Can't Stop Loving You' one more night, I'm going to fall out.' Of course, I was young and I didn't understand.

God Mind Night Remember You Fall

I think one of the reasons I've had success in hip-hop is that I can bring out vulnerability in people who are generally seen as tough guys. To me, when a hip-hop musician always plays tough, I find it annoying because I know they're not really like that - there's something deeper and vulnerable. There has to be, because they're human beings.

Success People Me Tough Think Find

Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Step Mind First Step Battle You

You get those couples who are very fearful of bringing children into the mix because they feel like somehow that link between them as a couple is going to somehow dissolve or become less powerful or whatever. And that somehow the child is going to disrupt their happy stage.

Children Happy Child You Powerful

One of the challenges for sub-Saharan Africa is that markets are of modest size. This makes regional integration important.

Robert Zoellick

Challenges Important Africa Size

The single biggest existential threat that's out there, I think, is cyber.

Think Cyber Single Out Existential

When migraines briefly became a campaign issue for me, it appeared that political foes were maybe playing the gender card.

Michele Bachmann

Me Political Gender Playing Maybe

The best way to deal with climate change has been obvious for years: cut greenhouse-gas emissions severely. We haven't done that. In 2010, for example, carbon emissions rose by six per cent - the largest such increase on record.

Michael Specter

Change Best Rose Climate Change Done

America rests on shared values rather than shared ethnicity.

America Values Ethnicity Rather Than

I made a vow that I wouldn't be tempted by what could happen to me if I went to Europe. I thought, 'You could be absorbed in it - it's so seductive, you might lose your own search for identity.' Then, when I did finally go to Europe, I was able to resist it because I had established my own identity.

Identity Me Thought Search You Lose

Some of you think an Indian is like a wild animal. This is a great mistake.

Great Mistake Animal Think You Wild

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