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 -
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 -
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
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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 -
I don't think I've ever read a food piece or a food book.
Calvin Trillin -
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
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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 -
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 -
Time has not grown so very old since the most prominent members of our profession, though admired by the public eye, and lauded by its tongue, were socially, viewed askance, and regarded as 'merely players.'
Edwin Booth
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It's amazing how much you will forgive if the behavior is truthful.
Bennett Miller -
I have found, in short, from reading my own writing, that my subject in fiction is the action of grace in territory largely held by the devil.
Flannery O'Connor -
Seeing consists of the grasping of structural features rather than the indiscriminate recording of detail.
Rudolf Arnheim -
Who doesn’t want a Cy Young Award? What kid didn’t grow up wanting to be the best? I’m no different. I want to be the best. I’ve always wanted to be the best.
R.A. Dickey -
We like songs that are familiar.
Charles Duhigg