Self-discipline has a bigger effect on academic performance than does intellectual talent.
CHARLES DUHIGGCravings are what drive habits. And figuring out how to spark a craving makes creating a new habit easier.
More Charles Duhigg Quotes
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Habits are malleable throughout your entire life.
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Research suggests that investment bankers are more prone to commit fraud when they feel the competitor at their heels.
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Companies aren’t families. They’re battlefields in a civil war.
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Most of the choices we make each day may feel like the products of well-considered decision making, but they’re not. They’re habits.
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If you believe you can change – if you make it a habit – the change becomes real.
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The biggest moment of flexibility in our shopping habits is when we have a child, because when you think about it, all of your old routines sort of go out the window, and suddenly a marketer can come in and sell you new kinds of things.
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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.
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I think I’m smart, and I know I was a good mom. But there wasn’t a lot I could point to and say, that’s why I’m special.
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America is the Saudi Arabia of coal.
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If you tell people that they have what it takes to succeed, they’ll prove you right.
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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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For a habit to stay changed, people must believe change is possible.
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Small wins are a steady application of a small advantage.
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Hiding what you know is sometimes as important as knowing 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 routine.
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