Charles Duhigg Quotes
Lawsuits against reverse mortgage companies, including the nation's largest, Financial Freedom Senior Funding, contend that those firms helped pressure older Americans into bad investments.
Quotes to Explore
-
I cry all the time. I love to laugh, too. It's important to create an environment for yourself where you feel what you need to and don't hold it in.
-
I try not to picture a reader when I'm writing. It's like trying to make a great table but not picturing anybody sitting at it.
-
We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.
-
I don't think about the future. I don't think about the past. I just think of what comes into my head at the time. So that might be about the past, that might be about the future. Or, the present.
-
You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings.
-
You don't need a machine to make pasta: a rolling pin and a fast hand can create a smooth, if thick, sheet.
-
It never occurred to me that I'd be on a television show or in feature films but when those came into play my dreams changed along the way.
-
Future historians trying to determine what it was like to be alive in fin de millennium America should read the last two decades of O. Henry and Best American short-story collections.
-
Thoughts are mental energy; they're the currency that you have to attract what you desire. Learn to stop spending that currency on thoughts you don't want.
-
There really are three types of 'religious' movies: the ones that make fun of it, the ones that vilify it and the ones that literally preach to the converted.
-
Aside from 'Hatchet II' and 'Hatchet III,' I've never repeated myself. I try to keep doing things that are totally different.
-
Whenever I write a new song, it always happens when I come back from Europe or Egypt or something like that. It's always from travelling.
-
The earth is such a voluminous, sparse, wild place that has its own rhythm that human beings try to control and strategize our way around, but the truth is, if you're out someplace like the ocean on a capsized boat, it doesn't matter if you have academic degrees, or if you're a martial-arts ninja. Nature is a bigger force than you.
-
People want to see something that isn't necessarily somebody walking around in a superhero costume.
-
Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.
-
You can have all the talent in the world, but without determination, you won't get very far.
-
The best way poor people can come out of their poverty is to get on the global highway, not on some dirt side road.
-
All my books reflect travel adventures of some kind, and all have a soul: a spiritual or mystical underpinning.
-
I would rather my films be well-known than I be well-known.
-
Religion is a mixed blessing.
-
I was born by myself but carry the spirit and blood of my father, mother and my ancestors. So I am really never alone. My identity is through that line.
-
Children want to mimic adults. They notice when you choose to prepare fresh vegetables over calling in another pizza pie for dinner. They will see that food made with love and care outweighs going through the drive-through window.
-
It places value on experience versus intellectual understanding. I saw a lot of people contemplating things but it didn't seem to lead to too many places. I got very interested in people who had discovered something more significant than an intellectual, abstract understanding.
-
Lawsuits against reverse mortgage companies, including the nation's largest, Financial Freedom Senior Funding, contend that those firms helped pressure older Americans into bad investments.
