Charles Duhigg Quotes

Lawmakers in both political parties have often acceded to unions' requests to avoid political confrontations or to curry favor. They have pushed difficult choices into the future.

Charles Duhigg

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• I would wait in line for anything to do with 'Doctor Who.'

  

  Manny Coto
  • Doctor
  • Wait
  • Line

• I'm not a psychiatrist.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Psychiatrist

• I had been doing summer stock every summer while I was in college. We did a showcase, like most good conservatories do - monologues and things that agents and casting directors come to see. From that I got an agent.

  

  Randy Harrison
  • Good
  • College
  • Summer

• Most of the people who act and sing do so for their own pleasure and that of their friends and family.

  

  Kate Smith
  • People
  • Family
  • Friends

• I arrived in California with no job, no car, and no money, but, like millions of other girls, a dream.

  

  Victoria Principal
  • Money
  • Job
  • Dream

• Dealing with the government does not mean you have to give a bribe.

  

  Gautam Adani
  • You
  • Government
  • Mean

• Forget not, O Lord, that I am one of those whom Thou hast created, and with Thine own blood hast redeemed. I repent me of my sins: I will strive to amend my ways.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • Lord
  • Created
  • Sins

• If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don't care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Life
  • Age
  • Care

• Since I was a small child, I was always writing either poems or plays... plays in which I had the starring part.

  

  Francine Pascal
  • Writing
  • Small
  • Child

• The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • World
  • Writing
  • Free

• I like school very much, and I'll go to college if my career slows down. But kids go to college to be where I am today. Not to put college down, but for me, it would be digressing.

  

  Dana Hill
  • School
  • Kids
  • Today

• You always know when something works it's a result of everything firing on all cylinders.

  

  Gary Cole
  • You
  • Know
  • Everything

• What is important is to have values in life. What's important is how you are, not how you look.

  

  Valeria Mazza
  • Life
  • Important
  • Values

• I think long-term, Bitcoin is a currency of the Internet. So, even if humans don't use it, routers will use it. Web browsers will use it. Web servers will use it.

  

  Naval Ravikant
  • Long
  • Think
  • Internet

• I have been struck by the pervasive frequency of pompously patriotic ads for the defense industry, usually accompanied by deferential salutations to our men and women who are heroically sacrificing their lives in our defense. Do we really need all of that for our security?

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Men
  • Women
  • Security

• If you want to do something, what does it matter where you are ranked?

  

  Kalpana Chawla
  • Want
  • You
  • Matter

• I've always been somewhere down from the top, so I've never had to suffer being knocked off the top.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Always
  • Never
  • Down

• I'm a geek through and through. My last job at Microsoft was leading much of the search engine relevance work on Bing. There we got to play with huge amounts of data, with neural networks and other AI techniques, with massive server farms.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Work
  • Job
  • Play

• The life of Lord Krishna has been misunderstood by many Western commentators. Scriptural allegory is baffling to literal minds. A hilarious blunder by a translator will illustrate this point. The story concerns an inspired medieval saint, the cobbler Ravidas, who sang in the simple terms of his own trade of the spiritual glory hidden in all mankind:

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Life
  • Simple
  • Spiritual

• Mary Magdalene beat her breasts and sobbed, His dear disciple, stone-faced, stared. His mother stood apart. No other looked into her secret eyes. Nobody dared. - 1940-1943

  

  Anna Akhmatova
  • Mother
  • Eyes

• What is the future of the woman's movement? How in the hell do I know? I don't run it.

  

  Kate Millett
  • Future
  • Woman
  • Hell

• As for me, I was just trying to get it right, whatever that means. But now I finally felt I was on my way. Everyone had a forever, but given a choice, this would be mine. The one that began in this moment, with Wes, in a kiss that took my breath away, then gave it back - leaving meastounded, amazed and most of all, alive.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Trying
  • Moments
  • Choices

• Lawmakers in both political parties have often acceded to unions' requests to avoid political confrontations or to curry favor. They have pushed difficult choices into the future.

  

  Charles Duhigg
  • Future
  • Political
  • Choices