Charles Duhigg Quotes

Once you break a habit into its components, you can fiddle with the gears.

Charles Duhigg

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• For those who love, nothing is too difficult, especially when it is done for the love of our Lord Jesus Christ.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Love
  • Difficult
  • Lord

• I started wearing all black around the time I got into Nirvana. I first heard 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' when I was about 12, and I remember jumping on my bed, so excited about it.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Black

• I was at a ballpark as much as I was in school. I was on a basketball court or football field as much as I was in school, so I definitely was receiving mentorship when it came to coaches, my father, my grandfather, and my uncles.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • School
  • Father
  • Football

• I've never been on a television show as a regular before.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Never
  • Television
  • Before

• Micropayments are great if you use them for a product or service with certain properties. It must be one where you can get away with usage-based pricing, and where there is a strong rationale for making it cheap, yet not free.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Great
  • Free
  • Strong

• Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

  

  Jack Benny
  • Mind
  • Age
  • Matter

• I always tell women to use the fact that we offer a different point of view in a room full of men, to their advantage. Because we often stand out, we gain a unique platform to demonstrate our knowledge and capabilities.

  

  Padmasree Warrior
  • Men
  • Different
  • Women

• I've had confidence in myself all along. It was just a matter of getting the pieces back in place.

  

  Dale Earnhardt
  • Myself
  • Confidence
  • Place

• I hate the fact that people think 'compromise' is a dirty word.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • People
  • Think
  • Hate

• There are heads of royal families who control hereditary fortunes that defy comprehension.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Control
  • Heads
  • Royal

• Individuals with kidney disease who are able to obtain treatment early experience a higher quality of life and are able to maintain more of their day-to-day activities, including keeping their jobs.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Quality

• Often when you are starting out in comedy, you will find that people will laugh at the things you didn't think were funny. It's important to pay attention also to what people are laughing at when you are just talking in regular conversation. Often that is when you are truly being yourself.

  

  Natasha Leggero
  • People
  • Important
  • Funny

• There's something about the darkness that I find unavoidably intoxicating. The knowledge that other people are sleeping and, therefore, unavailable to ruin my solitude, makes me more peaceful than I am during the day.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • People
  • Knowledge
  • Day

• The artist who imagines that he puts his best into a portrait in order to produce something good, which will be a pleasure to the sitter and to himself, will have some bitter experiences.

  

  Jacob Epstein
  • Good
  • Best
  • Bitter

• For makeup, I swear by a base of Embryolisse, Nars concealer, that Bobbie Brown foundation stick, Pat's highlighter, a brow fill-in with dark brown eyeshadow and angle brush, a groom with Anastasia brow gel, an eyelash curl, and two swipes of drugstore mascara.

  

  Paloma Elsesser
  • Dark
  • Makeup
  • Foundation

• All business is capitalistic. You require capital for any sort of business endeavour.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Business
  • You
  • Sort

• I found out about reviews early on. They're mostly written by sad men on bad afternoons. That's probably why I'm less angry than some writers, who are so narcissistic they consider every line of every review, even a thoughtful one, as major treason.

  

  Barry Hannah
  • Men
  • Why
  • Bad

• I'm very good about eating breakfast, lunch and dinner.

  

  Yunjin Kim
  • Good
  • Breakfast
  • Lunch

• The most difficult in the world must be easy in its beginning.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • World
  • Beginning
  • Difficult

• At the heart of art is learning to see

  

  Seth Godin
  • Art

• In the past 3-4 years I've developed a habit of keeping numerous small cassette recorders in my house and in a bag with me so that I'm able to commit to tape memory song ideas on a constant basis.

  

  Dwight Yoakam
  • House
  • Song
  • Past

• Habit with him was all the test of truth,It must be right: I’ve done it from my youth.

  

  George Crabbe
  • Done
  • Truth
  • Habit

• I hated to miss games... at the height of my career, I missed a lot of games due to... just a hamstring pull. And I hated sitting out. I just hated it. You play for your team, but you also play for the people who attend the games.

  

  Jerry West
  • People
  • Career
  • Team

• Once you break a habit into its components, you can fiddle with the gears.

  

  Charles Duhigg
  • Habit