Charles Duhigg Quotes
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It's hard to have people talking about you and trashing you in the media and saying they think your career is over... and you are only 25.
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Maybe that's what life is... a wink of the eye and winking stars.
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I write synopses after the book is completed. I can't write it beforehand, because I don't know what the book's about. I invent something for my publisher because he asks for one, but the final book ends up very differently.
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Look at Microsoft, Google, and Facebook. They have all entered many sectors, and actually, in many of those sectors, they weren't as early as Tencent.
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If you look at the very best presidents, the most effective presidents, they were always decent salespeople. Ronald Reagan was an extremely effective salesman, very tuned to the people he was selling to, very clear in what he was selling, very resilient and buoyant.
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All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
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The black community now in many ways divided itself the way the larger white community divides itself, over class issues. And that race is no longer the bond that it once was. That's one of the prices you pay for progress.
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In South Africa, I feel I am a stranger, at best an animal.
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Do we have the right to understand the world we live in? The right to all the information regarding why our governments are making the decisions that they are?
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A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion.
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Televisions and radios are locked on government frequencies - it is a serious crime to listen to a foreign broadcast. As a result, North Koreans think that they live in the best country in the world and that, as difficult as their lives may be, everybody else has it much worse.
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It's not my ambition to be a big star.
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I don't think I've ever read a food piece or a food book.
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Enjoy every moment: you never know when things might change.
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I thought of myself as an adult trapped in a kid's body. Had I known what adulthood was like, I would have embraced childhood a little more.
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The concept of power we admire is power over someone else.
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I see that I am to wait for what will be exhibited by death.
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No psychic value can disappear without being replaced by another of equivalent intensity.
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Google pays advertisers based not just on payment per click but also by number of clicks. The interplay between the two sets the prices, so a government-regulated price for 'equal access' might be difficult to set.
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Donald Trump understood the dynamics of the new media system better than the people who ran the old media system.
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I believe life takes us where we need to be.
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Shamanism is not some obscure concern of cultural anthropologists. Shamanism is how religion was practiced for its first million years. Up until about 12,000 years ago there was no other form of religion on this planet. That was how people attained some kind of access to the sacred.
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In the past, I've visited remote places - North Korea, Ethiopia, Easter Island - partly as a way to visit remote states of mind: remote parts of myself that I wouldn't ordinarily explore.
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We like songs that are familiar.
