Charles Duhigg Quotes

Consumer habits are key to understanding how to launch a product.

Charles Duhigg

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• It's very juicy to twirl your mustache and figure out why people do the horrible things that they do. It's not just because they are evil, but because that's how they somehow explain the world to themselves and justify themselves. It's always interesting figuring out how that happens.

  

  Zeljko Ivanek
  • People
  • World
  • Why

• My own wandering blood comes from my seafaring grandfather, who, after he had left the sea and settled on shore, still governed his house by a ship's rules.

  

  W. H. Davies
  • House
  • Sea
  • Grandfather

• Beating Pakistan is always special because they are a tough team and we have a bit of a history regarding Pakistan.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • History
  • Team
  • Tough

• I work in my attic, and the view is next door's chimney stack.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Work
  • Door
  • View

• You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Heart
  • You
  • Strength

• As newly created P2P businesses disrupt the status quo and compete with established companies, they face the difficulty of fitting a square peg into a round hole when it comes to existing regulatory regimes that don't contemplate their business models.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Business
  • Face
  • Status Quo

• That brain of mine is something more than merely mortal, as time will show.

  

  Ada Lovelace
  • Time
  • Brain
  • Will

• As an actress, vanity is your enemy. If you're thinking about how you look, you're not going to give a good performance. Once I realized, 'Hmm, I guess I'm not that vain,' it's like something I wanted to protect. I can't imagine anyone could give the full dynamic performance they're capable of and still be vain.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Enemy

• The classic war movies of the post-Vietnam era have generally taken on grand, philosophical themes: the meaninglessness of war, the grinding down of man by the machine - the machine being war itself, represented by someone like Gunnery Sergeant Hartman in 'Full Metal Jacket,' the sadistic marine who turns his boys into instruments of death.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • War
  • Death
  • Man

• I think every girl's dream is to find a bad boy at the right time, when he wants to not be bad anymore.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Time
  • Bad
  • Dream

• Music is love, love is music, music is life, and I love my life. Thank you and good night.

  

  AJ McLean
  • Life
  • Good
  • Music

• I'm a much better mother at 46... than if I were like, 21 or 25.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Mother
  • Like
  • Better

• The experience of being an Olympian is one that can never be taken away from you.

  

  Hannah Kearney
  • Experience
  • You
  • Taken

• Basically, what it comes down to is I love what I do. I don't do it for fame. I don't do it for money. I just love it.

  

  Larry King
  • Money
  • Love
  • Fame

• I did 75 films. I didn't take a break; I didn't spend my money. I have my savings, so when you're not working for money anymore, then you should find things that are meaningful and not just be like, 'OK, that's another day gone.'

  

  Maggie Cheung
  • Money
  • Day
  • Find

• One of the books I remember reading when I was young and always thought would be a great role to play is Catherine in 'Wuthering Heights.' I like the classics.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Great
  • Remember
  • Reading

• If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when?

  

  Rabbi Hillel
  • Myself

• If, in this country, a simple majority of people can start stripping away the rights of a protected class in the minority, that's a pretty alarming thing.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • People
  • Country
  • Pretty

• I have to have a passion in my life.

  

  George McGovern
  • Life
  • Passion

• The greatest gift God has given me is the capacity of love for people. I have so many faults, but caring about people is not one of them.

  

  Barbara Mandrell
  • People
  • God
  • Gift

• Involved sentences, crooked, circuitous, and parenthetical, no matter how musically they may be balanced, are prejudicial to a facile understanding of the truth.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Truth
  • Understanding
  • Facile

• Order is a necessary condition for anything the human mind is to understand.

  

  Rudolf Arnheim
  • Mind
  • Understanding
  • Order

• These days, information is a commodity being sold. And designers-including the newly defined subset of information designers and information architects-have a responsible role to play. We are interpreters, not merely translators, between sender and receiver. What we say and how we say it makes a difference. If we want to speak to people, we need to know their language. In order to design for understanding, we need to understand design.

  

  Erik Spiekermann
  • Understanding
  • Differences
  • Architect

• Consumer habits are key to understanding how to launch a product.

  

  Charles Duhigg
  • Understanding