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.
Tamra Davis -
Maybe that's what life is... a wink of the eye and winking stars.
Jack Kerouac -
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.
Jackie Collins -
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.
Ma Huateng -
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.
Dan Pink -
All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
Walt Disney
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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.
Ed Smith -
In South Africa, I feel I am a stranger, at best an animal.
Oliver Tambo -
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?
Daniel Espinosa -
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.
Umberto Eco -
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.
Barbara Demick -
I don't think I've ever read a food piece or a food book.
Calvin Trillin
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Enjoy every moment: you never know when things might change.
Natalie Imbruglia -
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.
Gaby Hoffmann -
The concept of power we admire is power over someone else.
Jackson Katz -
I see that I am to wait for what will be exhibited by death.
Walt Whitman -
No psychic value can disappear without being replaced by another of equivalent intensity.
Carl Jung -
I am the only person still alive of that rescuing group but I want everyone to know that, while I was coordinating our efforts, we were about twenty to twenty five people. I did not do it alone.
Irena Sendler
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For as old age is that period of life most remote from infancy, who does not see that old age in this universal man ought not to be sought in the times nearest his birth, but in those most remote from it?
Blaise Pascal -
It is not unusual for electorates to want contradictory things, and politicians often make promises accordingly.
Chris Patten -
You may as well quit reading and hearing the Word of God, and give it to the devil, if you do not desire to live according to it.
Martin Luther -
*I want to keep walking away from the person I was a moment ago... *So soon you will be in that part of the book where you are holding the bulk of the pages in your left hand, and only a thin wisp of the story in your right. *We get one story, you and I, and one story alone....It might be time for you to go. It might be time to change, to shine out.
Donald Miller -
The one good thing about television is the money; you can make a lot more money than in newspapers.
Will McDonough -
We like songs that are familiar.
Charles Duhigg