Charles Duhigg Quotes
When people have a willpower failure, it's because they haven't anticipated a situation that's going to come along.
Quotes to Explore
-
If only one in 1,000 people that I talk to goes on to write a good book, that's one more good book that I've helped along... and maybe it will be a book I love myself five or 10 years down the line.
-
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.'
-
In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world.
-
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?
-
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.
-
I don't like people cleaning my room.
-
Let's not just look at it as taking votes away from Gore. Our support comes from a lot of people.
-
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.
-
It's silly to keep people alive who have a terrible disease.
-
Every generation witnesses atrocities. People in power try to fulfill prophecy.
-
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.
-
When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people 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.
-
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.
-
Here's my whole marketing idea: treat people the way you want to be treated.
-
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.
-
You know, the polls show that 70 percent of the people are for stem-cell research.
-
To have a relationship that is pure and passionate and beautiful - I think people are scared of having that now. Especially guys.
-
I'm always feeling excruciatingly embarrassed after a concert; it's such an unnatural thing to do. On one hand, it's so unnatural to step in front of so many people and try to do something like I do, but on the other hand, it can be such a fantastic boon and such a wonderful ride.
-
The concept of muse is alien to me. To speak of a muse implies there is a couple in which one person is the objectified passive element - there to help the creative, active, often male part of the duo to create. A muse is very passive. Who wants a muse? I don't want a muse.
-
When I had my wreck, it really just put everything into perspective and really opened my eyes. I've always been one of those guys that thought 'it will never happen to me.'
-
To live your life well, and have respect for what came before or after - there's a strong respect for that in African culture.
-
When I was a kid, I always thought that I'd be a comic book artist. It took a long time to start thinking that I could be a musician.
-
When people have a willpower failure, it's because they haven't anticipated a situation that's going to come along.
