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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• It's still going on. I guess it will be until Redmond quits, dies or is jailed.

  

  Farrah Fawcett
  • Will
  • Going
  • Guess

• I should confess that I'm woefully under-read in South African fiction.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Should
  • Fiction
  • African

• 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.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • People
  • Work
  • Kids

• 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.

  

  Zach Roerig
  • Up
  • Family
  • Business

• The neck on which diamonds might have worthily sparkled, will look less tempting when the biting winter has hung icicles there for gems.

  

  Samuel Lover
  • Look
  • Winter
  • Diamonds

• 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.

  

  Ellen Key
  • Life
  • Women

• 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.

  

  Jerry Pournelle
  • Great
  • Bad
  • Literature

• 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.

  

  Kyle MacLachlan
  • Art
  • American
  • Rain

• I've had the struggles; I've had emotional times, boring times, fun times, passionate times.

  

  Bill Macy
  • Fun
  • Emotional

• Sept. 11 jolted America out of its second gilded age.

  

  Douglas Wilder
  • America
  • Age

• The fact that we don't have that biologic pressure to have highly polyphasic sleep, I think, probably tells us something in terms of, truly, whether it's useful or not.

  

  Matthew Walker
  • Sleep

• I almost had to exhaust myself at modeling before I could say, 'O.K., I'm ready for school.'

  

  Christy Turlington
  • School

• I always feel like I'm warring with my womanhood and wanting the world to be better, and with my blackness - which is the opposite of whiteness.

  

  Jessica Williams
  • World

• If I could change one thing about myself I'd be less highly strung. I find my sensibility quite high maintenance.

  

  Philippa Gregory
  • High

• The fact is, when you date an artist, you have to know that they're going to sing about you.

  

  Tove Lo

• I just wrote the book and was amazed and astounded that it became a bestseller and won the Pulitzer Prize. It still hasn't sunk in.

  

  Frank McCourt
  • Book

• All of the Marvel characters have flaws to them; all of them have a deep humanity to them.

  

  Kevin Feige
  • Humanity
  • Deep

• People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.

  

  Peter Drucker
  • People

• Life holds one great but quite commonplace mystery. Though shared by each of us and known to all, seldom rates a second thought. That mystery, which most of us take for granted and never think twice about, is time. Calendars and clocks exist to measure time, but that signifies little because we all know that an hour can seem as eternity or pass in a flash, according to how we spend it. Time is life itself, and life resides in the human heart.

  

  Michael Ende
  • Life
  • Great
  • Mystery

• Try to distill the character of your subject. Understand how he moves, thinks, acts. It's difficult to put into words. Consider each drawing as a problem that did not exist before, and then try to solve that problem to the best of your ability. That i what caricature is all about

  

  Al Hirschfeld
  • Thinking
  • Trying
  • Character

• When we want to be something other than the thing that God wants us to be, we must be wanting what, in fact, will not make us happy...whether we like it or not, God intends to give us what we need, not what we now think we want. Once more, we are embarrassed by the intolerable compliment, by too much love, not too little.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • God
  • Thinking
  • Happy

• I don't think we have any choice. I think we have an obligation to change the rules, to raise the bar, to play a different game, and to play it better than anyone has any right to believe is possible.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Believe
  • Different
  • Thinking

• Reducing the thinking required to take the next action increases the likelihood of the desired behavior occurring unconsciously.

  

  Nir Eyal
  • Thinking
  • Action
  • Behavior