Charles Duhigg Quotes

When people have a willpower failure, it's because they haven't anticipated a situation that's going to come along.

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• I felt somehow for many years that George Washington and Alexander Hamilton just left me out by mistake. But through the process of amendment, interpretation, and court decision, I have finally been included in 'We, the people.'

  

  Barbara Jordan
  • People
  • Me
  • Decision

• In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • America
  • Failure

• The name 'Charmageddon' actually comes from a social technique that I use. Which is, you know, literally obliterating people with charm so that you can get away with saying stuff that no one else could ever get away with, you know?

  

  Hal Sparks
  • People
  • Name
  • Saying

• I've grown up with girls that are like Precious. I've grown up with people that are like everyone that I read about in that book. And so years later, when I was given the role, I just felt a huge responsibility to show the reality of that situation and to show that we're not making it up.

  

  Gabourey Sidibe
  • People
  • Up
  • Book

• I don't like people cleaning my room.

  

  Larry David
  • People
  • Like
  • Cleaning

• Let's not just look at it as taking votes away from Gore. Our support comes from a lot of people.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • People
  • Support
  • Look

• When I'm around black or white people, I'm always in the middle. Especially when I am around black people; they will really tell how they feel about white people regardless of the fact that I'm also white and have white relatives. It's very interesting and can be really hard.

  

  Karyn Parsons
  • People
  • Black
  • Interesting

• It's silly to keep people alive who have a terrible disease.

  

  Imogen Cunningham
  • People
  • Silly
  • Alive

• Every generation witnesses atrocities. People in power try to fulfill prophecy.

  

  Nas
  • People
  • Power
  • Generation

• When you're warm and approachable, you don't have to go up and talk non-stop to someone in a social situation. You just have to be open to the conversations you're already having - and warm and receptive to the people you're meeting.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • People
  • Up
  • Stop

• When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • People
  • Good
  • Happy

• I created my own charity called My Peak Challenge. We've been able to raise hundreds of thousands of pounds. It's helping change people's lives, and I've had lots of wonderful letters about it.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • People
  • Change
  • Challenge

• We know that the elements in play in a show like 'Confederate' are much more raw, much more real, and people come into them much more sensitive and more invested, than they do with a story about a place called 'Westeros,' which none of them had ever heard of before they read the books or watched the show.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • People
  • Real
  • Know

• Here's my whole marketing idea: treat people the way you want to be treated.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • People
  • Marketing
  • Treat

• I purposefully try to make films in that grey area, where things are morally ambiguous. It's like life: good people do horrible things, and bad people do good things, and there's beauty in horror and horror in beauty.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• You know, the polls show that 70 percent of the people are for stem-cell research.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • People
  • Know
  • Research

• To have a relationship that is pure and passionate and beautiful - I think people are scared of having that now. Especially guys.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Relationship

• The acquisition of knowledge - knowledge of both the world and of their own religion - will inoculate young people against extremist ideologies.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • People
  • World
  • Knowledge

• The people taking care of our children and our parents, they deserve a good wage, good benefits, and a secure retirement. And, it’s crucial that every American have access to the education and skills they need to get the jobs of the future. So we will fight to make college tuition-free for the middle class and debt-free for everyone.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • People
  • Good
  • Children

• From the very beginning, I always tried to make dialogue flow comfortably; I always did that to make it seem more authentic.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Always
  • Beginning
  • Flow

• It is the awareness of unfulfilled desires which gives a nation the feeling that it has a mission and a destiny.

  

  Eric Hoffer
  • Feeling
  • Destiny

• A number of countries around the world, and indeed the E.U. as a whole, have chosen not to allow the import from the U.S. of beef from cows fed a diet that includes the hormone ractopamine, because of the fairly grave health concerns.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • World
  • Health
  • Diet

• Considerations of justice are also integral to efforts to generate transcultural security in the first instance and, ultimately, transcultural synergy.

  

  Nayef Al-Rodhan
  • Justice

• When people have a willpower failure, it's because they haven't anticipated a situation that's going to come along.

  

  Charles Duhigg
  • People
  • Failure