Charles Duhigg Quotes
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Some say because music is as much about personal expression as listening pleasure, sharing is integral to why songs have value in the first place.
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Medicare's top officials said in 2006 that they had reduced the number of fraudulent and improper claims paid by the agency, keeping billions of dollars out of the hands of people trying to game the system.
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Many cows are fed a high-protein diet, which creates a more liquid manure that is easier to spray on fields.
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In 2005, attorneys general of 35 states urged the Federal Reserve to end the unsigned check system.
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When the mortgage giant Fannie Mae recruited Daniel H. Mudd, he told a friend he wanted to work for an altruistic business. Already a decorated marine and a successful executive, he wanted to be a role model to his four children - just as his father, the television journalist Roger Mudd, had been to him.
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Unlike other sports, which are largely determined by individual athletic ability or team strength, NASCAR requires its competitors to cooperate in order to win.
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Massachusetts has prohibited most financial advisers from using titles like 'certified senior adviser,' and some of the largest insurers, including MetLife and Genworth Financial, have similar rules.
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If you need five minutes every hour to look at tweets or to just surf the Internet, you need to schedule that into your schedule, allow yourself to do that. Because when people start procrastinating, what they've done is, they've tried to ignore that urge. They try to deny themselves time on Facebook or time surfing the web.
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We love to receive praise, but usually we're not certain what message, precisely, we should take from it. On the other hand, when someone points out our flaws, we realize immediately that something needs to change.
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Most shoppers don't buy everything they need at one store.
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As the nation's elderly population grows, dozens of industries have tried to harness the political might of older Americans for corporate goals.
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In a sense, habits never really disappear. Once formed, they always remain in our neurology.
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In California, up to 15 percent of wells in agricultural areas exceed a federal contaminant threshold, according to studies.
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Between 1857 and 1929, while regulators largely stood idle, the American economy swung through 19 national boom-and-bust gyrations that sometimes threatened to wipe out whole industries within months.
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Like solo sailors venturing into the Southern Ocean, climbers are seduced by risk. The desire to push to a summit or scale a rock face is so strong that they consciously or subconsciously minimize safety precautions drilled into their brains.
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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.
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Between calculated risk and reckless decision-making lies the dividing line between profit and loss.
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As America becomes an older nation, it is also, by some measures, becoming sicker.
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The Great Bailout is mostly over for the banks. But for those troubled behemoths of the nation's housing bust, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the lifeline from Washington just keeps getting longer.
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Cash from a reverse mortgage can be paid out in several ways, including a lump sum, a monthly payment, a line of credit, or a combination of those. If you do not need money right away, it is usually a bad idea to take all the money upfront, since it starts accumulating interest charges immediately.
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When most individuals or most companies are talking about trying to create healthy habits, the key is to identify which habit or habits seem most important.
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You have to actually believe in your capacity to change for habits to permanently change.
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America is the Saudi Arabia of coal.
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Some of the tactics that are used by Foxconn and other companies throughout China is, if you are late, if you violate one of the small rules, some of the punishment is that you have to copy down quotations from the chairman of Foxconn: you have to write out confessions explaining why you were late and promising never to do it again.