"For Aristotle, habits reigned supreme. The behaviors that……" — Charles Duhigg
"For Aristotle, habits reigned supreme. The behaviors that occur unthinkingly are the evidence of our truest selves."
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138 Quotes by Charles Duhigg
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The problem is that your brain can't tell the difference between bad and good habits, and so if you have…
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The biggest moment of flexibility in our shopping habits is when we have a child, because all of your old…
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Simply giving employees a sense of agency- a feeling that they are in control, that they have genuine decision-making authority…
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Small wins are a steady application of a small advantage.
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It is facile to imply that smoking, alcoholism, overeating, or other ingrained patters can be upended without real effort. Genuine…
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The best agencies understood the importance of routines. The worst agencies were headed by people who never thought about it,…
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Rather, to change a habit, you must keep the old cue, and deliver the old reward, but insert a new…
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Willpower isn’t just a skill. It’s a muscle, like the muscles in your arms or legs, and it gets tired…
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Shampoo doesn’t have to foam, but we add foaming chemicals because people expect it each time they wash their hair.…
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As people strengthened their willpower muscles in one part of their lives—in the gym, or a money management program—that strength…
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Belief is easier when it occurs within a community.
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If you want to do something that requires willpower—like going for a run after work—you have to conserve your willpower…
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More Aristotle Quotes
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Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and Aristotle. I believe it came…
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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
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Aristotle uses a mother's love for her child as the prime example of love or friendship.
— Mortimer Adler
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After reading the doctrines of Plato, Socrates or Aristotle, we feel the specific difference between their words and Christ's is…
— Joseph Parker
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Said Aristotle unto Plato, 'Have another sweet potato?' Said Plato unto Aristotle, 'Thank you, I prefer the bottle.'
— Owen Wister
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Three sorts of goods, Aristotle specified, contribute to happiness: goods of the soul, including moral and intellectual virtues and education;…
— Sissela Bok
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Aristotle taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking.…
— Will Cuppy
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. Aristotle How very little can…
— Florence Nightingale
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To live alone one must be a beast or a god, says Aristotle. Leaving out the third case: one must…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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I would like to be referred to as 'The Big Aristotle'.
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The ideal Government of all reflective men, from Aristotle onward, is one which lets the individual alone - one which…
— H. L. Mencken
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Is it not evident, in these last hundred years (when the Study of Philosophy has been the business of all…
— John Dryden
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