Charles Duhigg Quotes

The discovery of the habit loop is important because it reveals a basic truth: When a habit emerges, the brain stops fully participating in decision making. It stops working so hard, or diverts focus to other tasks.

Charles Duhigg

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• I just have a connection with sign language. I always thought the deaf community was a different community to be a part of. In high school, me and my friend took sign language.

  

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• When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased.

  

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• There's certain things I try to avoid, as an actress, just to keep my world from being as narrow as it could be.

  

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• And it's one thing to give people freedom and something else to deny the rights of Christians to assert their faith in order to keep Hindus from feeling upset.

  

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• The only people who never fail are those who never try.

  

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• Tonight Illinois has set a tone for the nation, that we won't stand idle hoping that our economy improves. This is a brand new day for the Illinois Republican Party.

  

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• We don't grow older, we grow riper.

  

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• The influence of blogging is overall a very positive force in the media.

  

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• I had really bad obsessive-compulsive disorder. At its worst, I was compelled to leave my house at three o'clock in the morning and go out in the alley because I just knew that the paper-towel roll I threw in the recycling bin was uncomfortable, like it was lying the wrong way, and I would be down in the garbage.

  

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• I like structure, cool, hip songs, and fun, hooky music.

  

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• I think we respond well when we do something well.

  

  Katey Sagal
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• The goal must be to expand ourselves beyond one field of focus and use our improved access to information to solve the very real and extreme economic, environmental, and resource challenges we face as an interconnected, global society.

  

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• I don't let anything kill my spirit.

  

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• Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.

  

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• An improv team would have eight guys and one woman; that was still pretty standard. If you were a woman improviser, it was actually kind of an advantage because, if you were halfway decent, you'd get a lot more stage time.

  

  Rachel Dratch
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• I've never been a calm, midrange type person.

  

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• I love to read poetry but I haven't written anything that I'm willing to show anybody.

  

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• I'm a vocabulary nerd.

  

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• I can't think of anything more important than a kid being sick and making them laugh and making that whole experience a little easier.

  

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• Proper praying is like a person who wanders through a field gathering flowers-one by one, until they make a beautiful bouquet. In the same manner, a person must gather each letter, each syllable, to form them into words of prayer.

  

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• Most of the food imported to Russia came from China.

  

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• Our children, two daughters and a son, were born in 1874, 1876, and 1879.

  

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• I've seen many politicians paralyzed in the legs as myself, but I've seen more of them who were paralyzed in the head.

  

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• The discovery of the habit loop is important because it reveals a basic truth: When a habit emerges, the brain stops fully participating in decision making. It stops working so hard, or diverts focus to other tasks.

  

  Charles Duhigg
  • Important
  • Truth
  • Focus