All Charles Duhigg Quotes
- Self-discipline has a bigger effect on academic performance than does intellectual talent. Academic
- If you dress a new something in old habits, it’s easier for the public to accept it. Accept
- What we know from lab studies is that it's never too late to break a habit. Habits are malleable throughout your entire life. But we… Becomes
- A movement starts because of the social habits of friendship and the strong ties between close acquaintances. It grows because of the habits of a… Acquaintance
- For a habit to stay changed, people must believe change is possible. Believe
- Habits, scientists say, emerge because the brain is constantly looking for ways to save effort. Brain
- Habits are powerful, but delicate. They can emerge outside our consciousness, or can be deliberately designed. They often occur without our permission, but can be… All
- There’s something about it that makes other good habits easier. Easier
- If you tell people that they have what it takes to succeed, they'll prove you right Inspirational
- America is the Saudi Arabia of coal. America
- The brain has this amazing ability to find happiness even when the memories of it are gone. Ability
- At some point, if you're changing a really deep-seated behavior, you're going to have a moment of weakness. Behavior
- Habits are malleable throughout your entire life. Entire
- Companies aren’t families. They’re battlefields in a civil war. Aren
- Typically, people who exercise, start eating better and becoming more productive at work. They smoke less and show more patience with colleagues and family. They… Becoming
- Change might not be fast and it isn't always easy. But with time and effort, almost any habit can be reshaped. Always Easy
- ...hiding what you know is sometimes as important as knowing it... Hiding
- There's a natural instinct embedded in friendship, a sympathy that makes us willing to fight for someone we like when they are treated unjustly. Embedded
- Champions don’t do extraordinary things. They do ordinary things, but they do them without thinking, too fast for the orther team to react. They follow… Champion
- The Golden Rule of Habit Change: You can't extinguish a bad habit, you can only change it. Bad
- This is the real power of habit: the insight that your habits are what you choose them to be. Choose
- Public employee unions are hardly the only group involved in bare-knuckles politics. Businesses lobby fiercely, and executives make hefty campaign donations. Bare
- Public employee unions, in their defense, say politicians have unfairly made them into simplistic bogeymen, responsible for problems that have myriad causes. Not all government… All
- Government and other scientists have identified hundreds of chemicals that are linked to diseases in small concentrations and that are unregulated in drinking water or… Chemicals
- There is no central government database that allows officials to monitor water tests by local systems. Allows