That's why I tell stories: to create readiness, to nudge the people toward receptive insight. In their present state they can stare… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
The best option for me to do was not to move. I tried, and any little nudge or step, it the cramping… — LeBron James Copy Share Image
Exercise, from a public health perspective, is an unmitigated failure. The world's longest-lived people live in environments that nudge them into more… — Dan Buettner Copy Share Image
"Save more tomorrow" is a nudge to help people do what they know they want to do, which is save more, but… — Richard Thaler Copy Share Image
When should we nudge and when should we shove, I think, it's a political judgment. Obviously in some situations we need shoves,… — Richard Thaler Copy Share Image
I'm so lazy as far as liking to get up, go to the office in my pajamas, get dressed about noon. And… — Barbara Park Copy Share Image
“A nudge, as we will use the term, is any aspect of the choice architecture that alters people’s behavior in a predictable… — Richard H. Thaler Copy Share Image
If forced to travel on an airplane, try and get in the cabin with the Captain, so you can keep an eye… — Mike Harding Copy Share Image
I want to do it too!" (sitting motionless) Nudge: "Nope, you stand out like a fart in a church." Max: (muttering) "Appropriately… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
Walking and talking are two very great pleasures, but it is a mistake to combine them. Our own noise blots out the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is a sense that everything should be easy, but easy decisions are the ones we should be scared of because if… — Nick Harkaway Copy Share Image
My role as the chair of the fashion department at Parsons put me face to face with all the big designers, retailers,… — Tim Gunn Copy Share Image
When we begin to set boundaries with people we love, a really hard thing happens: they hurt. They may feel a hole… — Henry Cloud Copy Share Image
The muse appears at the point in my writing when I sense a subtle shift, a nudge to move over, and everything… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
“Our motivation is simple: if we were starting from scratch, no sane person could possibly devise the existing system, which is so… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We can even see the legal institution of marriage as a precommitment strategy, not unlike that of Ulysses in approaching the Sirens,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In your days - things like this happen to you... You get a tap, a nudge, a gentle shake, and life whispers… — Mary Anne Radmacher Copy Share Image
If a stick is floating down a river and gets stuck, it doesn't need years of therapy. It just needs a little… — Michael Neill Copy Share Image
We never slam the door on flattery, we nudge it shut like a man rejecting his mistress: if she nudges back, we're… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I had a longing for ritual, something I could cling to, a routine to make me feel well and contented. I hoped… — Jack Dee Copy Share Image
Each person holds so much power within themselves that needs to be let out. Sometimes they just need a little nudge, a… — Pete Carroll Copy Share Image
I believe a lot of our lives are spent asleep, and what I've been trying to do is hold on to those… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
“you want to nudge people into socially desirable behavior, do not, by any means, let them know that their current actions are… — Richard H. Thaler Copy Share Image
Nudge threw her arms around my neck. 'I love you Max! I love all of us too!' Yeah, me too,' Said the… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
Nobody with an IQ higher than emergency-room temperature could ever believe that 'death panels' would be appointed to nudge the elderly toward… — Carl Hiaasen Copy Share Image
How can we keep growing instead of staying stuck-perhaps because we are fearful of making a "wrong" decision? Herbert Otto nudges us… — Herbert Otto Gille Copy Share Image
A digging fork is a stout, short-handled tool with four flat tines about a foot long… for weeding I use it delicately… — Sara Bonnett Stein Copy Share Image
A nudge is some feature of the environment that changes the behaviour of humans but would not change the behaviour of rational… — Richard Thaler Copy Share Image
I think the best kind of comedy is the least self conscious. I think if you just sort of let the comedy… — Betty White Copy Share Image
“While we all need to be nudged outside our comfort zone occasionally, it is important for church leaders (and parents!) to recognize… — Amy Fenton Lee Copy Share Image
I want to be a scientist who studies the ocean when I grow up. I would go out to sea, and scuba… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
Countries all around the world, starting with the U.K., have started behavioural insight teams, often referred to as nudge units. And they… — Richard Thaler Copy Share Image
If something doesn't work exactly right, or maybe needs some special treatment, you don't just throw it away. Everything can't be fully… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
It was his subconscious which told him this---that infuriating part of a person's brain which never responds to interrogation, merely gives little… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“No one ever truly arrives! We just nudge each other along muddy ruts of suffering, occasionally peeking over the edges of our… — Anya Ulinich Copy Share Image
Grace is the central invitation to life and the final word. It's the beckoning nudge and the overwhelming, undeserved mercy that urges… — Tim Hansel Copy Share Image
I'm always a big fan of if you approach somebody politely about something and you're not a nudge - you're just pretty… — Carol Leifer Copy Share Image
I may be biting off more than I can chew, but with 'The Simpsons' and with 'Futurama,' what I'm trying to do… — Matt Groening Copy Share Image
I am as fond of colorful language as anyone, but I try not to inflict it upon strangers. I suspect many people… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
“He understood it to be another deep nudge from forces unseen, almost surely connected with the letter that had come along with… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
