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Charles Duhigg Quotes

One goal of the Clean Water Act of 1972 was to upgrade the nation's sewer systems, many of them built more than a century ago, to handle growing populations and increasing runoff of rainwater and waste.

Charles Duhigg

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: american
Birth: 1974

Topics

Water Goal Growing Clean Water Clean

It's very important to know the neighbor next door and the people down the street and the people in another race.

Maya Angelou

People Door Down Neighbor Know Race

There's a perspective that I've gained as an astronaut that I didn't get from my science activities. In my science activities, I learned by the seat of my pants. Spending 17 years as an astronaut, I learned the NASA formalism of systems engineering as if my life depended on it. Literally.

John M. Grunsfeld

Life Science Perspective My Life Get

The same critics who destroyed 'Seven Streams' when we opened in Edinburgh - and yes, it was horrible - called it one of the most important shows of the 21st century six years later in London.

Robert Lepage

Important London Critics Same Years

Memory is more indelible than ink.

Anita Loos

Memory Brainy More Ink Than

My dream job is to be the Robin to Anderson Cooper's Batman.

Sophia Bush

Job Dream Batman Robin Anderson

Football is violence and cold weather and sex and college rye.

Roger Kahn

Sports Football College Weather Cold

Lies can be verbal or nonverbal, kindhearted or self-serving, devious or bald-faced; they can be lies of omission or lies of commission; they can be lies that undermine national security or lies that make a child feel better. And each type might involve a unique neural pathway.

Robin Marantz Henig

Child Better Feel Unique Security

My mum certainly isn't a prude, nor is my brother, so I think I'm lucky to have a family like that.

Roxanne McKee

Family Brother Think Lucky Like Nor

Around 1967 Dan Bobrow wrote a program to do algebra problems based on symbols rather than numbers.

Marvin Minsky

Problems Numbers Symbols Algebra

To me, the process of art is very much a process of translation, of borrowing.

Julia Holter

Art Me Process Borrowing Translation

I like antagonizing the audience, poking at them.

Jason Mantzoukas

Audience Like Them Poking

I think the thing that keeps us motivated is challenging ourselves to see if we can be better than we've been before and seeing if we can stumble upon a magic that wasn't there before - whether it's a song, a performance, or a track that lights us up the way the first few records did.

Jay DeMarcus

Performance Song Think Better Magic