Nir Eyal Quotes
Reducing the thinking required to take the next action increases the likelihood of the desired behavior occurring unconsciously.
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If you give what can be taken, you are not really giving. Take what you are given, not what you want to be given. Give what cannot be taken.
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It's still going on. I guess it will be until Redmond quits, dies or is jailed.
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I should confess that I'm woefully under-read in South African fiction.
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We look for people who demonstrate perseverance in the face of challenges, the ability to influence and motivate others - people who want to work relentlessly to ensure that kids who are facing the challenges of poverty have an excellent education.
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I never had any film training. I went to Northwestern. I studied education and theater. So it was all theater training.
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My family had a business where they worked with gravestones, and I remember growing up and playing in cemeteries like it was a normal playground.
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The neck on which diamonds might have worthily sparkled, will look less tempting when the biting winter has hung icicles there for gems.
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I try to just be the person I am, with a lot of sensitivity to the genre in which I'm playing.
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Childhood is precious... Hardest part of growing up? Is growing up, I think.
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Travel is stressful.
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The exact sciences, which would be considered a priori as little adapted to women, for example mathematics, astronomy and physics, are exactly those in which thus far they have most distinguished themselves. This contains a warning against too precipitate conclusions about the intellectual life of woman.
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And in down times it shakes a lot of the bad SF out, a lot the stuff that was bought for literary reasons, which is neither entertaining nor great literature.
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I always think of the Pacific Northwest as giant trees and rain and clouds and dampness, like the Native American art from that area. That all says Pacific Northwest to me. Salmon. It really only exists on the Western side of the Cascades.
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I've had the struggles; I've had emotional times, boring times, fun times, passionate times.
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A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
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It takes people being alone in front of the computer at three in the morning to write opinions about movies, apparently.
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Sept. 11 jolted America out of its second gilded age.
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I think many people can relate to that excruciating pain of love gone wrong. I'd rather have a broken arm than a broken heart.
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It's one of the terrors of old age that your body is not your friend. Or to be out on the street and be frightened of someone because you're not in good shape and can't do anything about it.
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For his part, every beauty of art or nature made him thankful as well as happy, and that the pleasure to be had in listening to fine music, as in looking at the stars in the sky, or at a beautiful landscape or picture, was a benefit for which we might thank Heaven as sincerely as for any other worldly blessing.
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Any amount of theology can now be smuggled into people's minds under the cover of fiction without their knowing it.
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As the leader, you're empowering talent. Once you've given the direction, it's a joy to see it put into action, to see people on every level of the company carrying out the strategy.
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I'm a Brit and I just put myself on tape, back in London, for a very distant American project that I thought I didn't stand a chance of getting. And then, I got a call about a week after I had submitted my tape, just saying, "They really like you and want to screen test you." So, I flew to L.A. and did the screen test. And then, I met Elijah [Wood] and did a screen test with him. And then, I had a very nerve-wracking few days back home, waiting and waiting and thinking, "This cannot possibly go my way because that would just be too good to be true." And then, it did.
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Reducing the thinking required to take the next action increases the likelihood of the desired behavior occurring unconsciously.
