Charles Duhigg Quotes
Typically, when there are corporate habits that undermine individuals, it has emerged without any sort of central planning. Nobody sits down and says, 'I'm going to create an evil habit for this corporation.'
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Push your luck. If you see a pretty girl in a bar, say something.
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You can only learn by opening yourself up to engage with different sources of information. How can you learn something if you never see it, read it, or hear it?
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My mom is just so good with fashion! She always tells me what looks good, what doesn't look good, and she gives me great advice.
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To stay interested in tennis, I have to mix it up with other things.
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The way women today are treated in Saudi Arabia is a direct result of the education our children, boys and girls, receive at school.
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I think when you see 'Ridiculous Six,' the show speaks for itself in terms of its treatment of American Indians.
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Cafe De Flore speaks of love, its joys, its pains and its dramas - to love and to lose. This story upset me, I was upside-down, in the depths of myself.
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I never drink anything hot; I don't like hot drinks, very strange.
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You can't be preachy - kids are allergic to messages.
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On one hand I am this weird androgynous tomboy where I'm strangely low maintenance and have a five-minute makeup regimen. On the other I'm obsessed with all things beauty, from skin care to makeup.
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Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.
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As society diversifies, the number of people who read literature is decreasing. It will be difficult for readers to digest my ideas through literature.
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All too often, legacy management practices reflexively perpetuate the past - by over-weighting the views of long-tenured executives, by valuing conformance more highly than creativity and by turning tired industry nostrums into sacred truths.
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Peace along with freedom and justice are the pillars for attaining both security and stability and will pave the way towards the eradication of oppression, extremism, and terrorism in our world.
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I told CBS, 'My career is going down the toilet, and you're pulling the chain.'
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Vamps no longer exist. Stars have taken their roles.
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As it enters the ear, does it come in like broken glass or does it come in like honey?
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I could wake up six in the morning, go downstairs and record. I learned how to use ProTools and everything. Whenever I felt it, I could record.
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When John (Giles) was manager of Ireland, much as he loved me, he still dropped me.
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Let me be the one To do what is done.
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I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.
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Most corporations have human-resources processes that involve discussions with your manager, performance evaluations, calibrations for performance and potential succession planning.
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Can any thing, my good Sir, be more painful to a friendly mind than a necessity of communicating disagreeable intelligence? Indeed, it is sometimes difficult to determine, whether the relater or the receiver of evil tidings is most to be pitied.
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Typically, when there are corporate habits that undermine individuals, it has emerged without any sort of central planning. Nobody sits down and says, 'I'm going to create an evil habit for this corporation.'
