"The best agencies understood the importance of routines.……" — Charles Duhigg
"The best agencies understood the importance of routines. The worst agencies were headed by people who never thought about it, and then wondered why no one followed their orders."
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Charles Duhigg
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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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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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If you believe you can change - if you make it a habit - the change becomes real.
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Intelligence agencies keep things secret because they often violate the rule of law or of good behavior.
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The jam is moving toward the Capitol where Congress sits in judgment on all the administrative agencies of Government.
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My approach to cutting spending as president, is to do a ten percent across the board cut of all federal…
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You can't fall back on the private sector and say, 'You take care of the nation's banking system.' That's a…
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Every year the Federal Government wastes billions of dollars as a result of overpayments of government agencies, misuse of government…
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Evangelical agencies with ready funding may have too little depth and vision to cope with the current conflict. God's kingdom…
— Carl F. H. Henry
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It is arguable whether the human race have been gainers by the march of science beyond the steam engine. Electricity…
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Science unfolded her treasures and her secrets to the desperate demands of men, and placed in their hands agencies and…
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Oh, without prayer what are the church's agencies, but the stretching out of a dead man's arm, or the lifting…
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It is easy to magnify human personality and agencies. Prayer recognizes that God is the source of life and light…
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In the fight against terrorism, national agencies keep full control over their police forces, security and intelligence agencies and judicial…
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I believe that the school is primarily a social institution. Education being a social process, the school is simply that…
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