Charles Duhigg Quotes
Older consumers don't want to be treated like teenagers; what's more, they don't want to believe they fall into any niche at all.
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The African-American tradition, in the main, is very, very church-based, very, very Christian. It accepts, you know, certain narratives about the world. I didn't really have that present in my house.
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Nationalism in Norway was very strong in 1905, that we must be free of Sweden. But I must say, I'm not 100 percent sure that was a wise decision. We had the war; we were occupied by Germans from 1940 to '45. And if there had been one Scandinavian country, then it would not have been so very easy probably to go ahead with the occupation.
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This identity, this mind, this particular cast of speech, is nearly over.
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I think great players can play in any year, that's why they're great. A lot of it is down to the mental approach.
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The duty of the media is to observe truth and social responsibility.
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I thought I'd be doing weird, Off Broadway theater after I graduated.
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But though cognition is not an element of mental action, nor even in any real sense of the word an aspect of it, the distinction of cognition and conation has if properly defined a definite value.
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If you're asking your kids to exercise, then you better do it, too. Practice what you preach.
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One of the strange things about violent and authoritarian regimes is they don't like the glare of negative publicity.
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If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.
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If India has to achieve exponential growth, it would have to be on the back of strong growth in the manufacturing sector.
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Fashion has this youth mania. But 70-year-old ladies don't have 18-year-old bodies, and 18-year-olds don't have a 70-year-old's dollars.
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I love my kitchen. On the weekends, we have friends over, the kids are buzzing around, and we cook and talk.
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I understand how the economy actually works.
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Seeing a man praying to Allah is enough for some people to assume he is a terrorist.
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I love going to my supermarket. Sounds so rock 'n' roll, eh?
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Of course, violence will not end with our combat mission. Extremists will continue to set off bombs, attack Iraqi civilians and try to spark sectarian strife. But ultimately, these terrorists will fail to achieve their goals.
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God is decisively drawn to the humble.
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The challenge of weaning ourselves off fossil fuel even as it becomes more abundant will make the old fights about energy conservation seem like child's play.
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I believe that in America, if you can dream it, you should be able to build it.
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I do believe you would be perfectly happy shut up in your study with your rolls of manuscript all your life, without seeing another human being save a servant to bring you in bread and fruit and water twice a day.
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In running my own company, I was too busy for a while, and I thought, 'Maybe I'll stop dancing for a bit.' It was the worst decision ever. I just lost my creativity and my drive.
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Writers spend three years rearranging 26 letters of the alphabet. It's enough to make you lose your mind day by day.
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Older consumers don't want to be treated like teenagers; what's more, they don't want to believe they fall into any niche at all.
