Charles Duhigg Quotes

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Charles Duhigg

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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
  • People
  • Career
  • Media

• Maybe that's what life is... a wink of the eye and winking stars.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Life
  • Eye
  • Stars

• 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
  • Up
  • Book
  • Know

• 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
  • Look
  • Early
  • Google

• 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
  • People
  • Best
  • Look

• All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

  

  Walt Disney
  • True
  • Courage
  • Dreams

• 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
  • Black
  • Community
  • Progress

• In South Africa, I feel I am a stranger, at best an animal.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Animal
  • Stranger
  • South Africa

• 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
  • World
  • Live
  • Why

• 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
  • Life
  • Time
  • Book

• 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
  • World
  • Live
  • Country

• It's not my ambition to be a big star.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Star
  • Ambition
  • Big

• I don't think I've ever read a food piece or a food book.

  

  Calvin Trillin
  • Book
  • Think
  • Food

• Enjoy every moment: you never know when things might change.

  

  Natalie Imbruglia
  • Change
  • Enjoy
  • Moment

• 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
  • Myself
  • Thought
  • Childhood

• The concept of power we admire is power over someone else.

  

  Jackson Katz
  • Power
  • Someone
  • Admire

• I see that I am to wait for what will be exhibited by death.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Death

• No psychic value can disappear without being replaced by another of equivalent intensity.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Value

• 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
  • People
  • Alone

• I've always wanted to be able to say that I come from Los Angeles, California and feel quintessentially American - even if I said that in Spanish.

  

  Cheech Marin
  • American
  • California
  • Spanish

• One learns little more about a man from the feats of his literary memory than from the feats of his alimentary canal.

  

  Frank Moore Colby

• My cooking philosophy, what I try to do, is to make a cuisine where the produce and the product shines, compared to some current trends that are maybe more adding additional things, like molecular cuisine, with a lot of additives and chemicals, which are now showing that they could be bad for your health.

  

  Joel Robuchon
  • Bad
  • Health
  • Cooking

• Of course we all have our limits, but how can you possibly find your boundaries unless you explore as far and as wide as you possibly can? I would rather fail in an attempt at something new and uncharted than safely succeed in a repeat of something I have done.

  

  A. E. Hotchner
  • Done
  • Explore
  • Limits

• We like songs that are familiar.

  

  Charles Duhigg