Quotes
Authors
Charles Duhigg

"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 reshaped by fiddling with their parts. They shape our lives far more than we realizeâ€”they are so strong, in fact, that they cause our brains to cling to them at the exclusion of all else, including common sense."

Source : "The Power of Habit". Book by Charles Duhigg, February 28, 2012.

Charles Duhigg

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“(...the non-conformist, how do you keep from getting scarred?)/i donâ€™t! i got a scar hereâ€¦and uh i got a scar on my kneeâ€¦and uh a few scars on my soul.”
“I remember the good evenings I have fished, even the ones that realised material hopes not by the fish that came to the fly, but by the colour and movement of the water and sky, by the sounds and scents and gentle stirrings that were all about me.”
“I believe in a set of values I cannot live by. I set high goals for myself, I seek perfection, dream of exotic faraway places. But ultimately, what I long for isn't far away at all. It's in my own backyard. Imperfection charms me, familiar things move me... a celebration of what we have, instead of what we long for. That for me, is glamor.”
“I had some hesitations about philosophy because, if you worked out a philosophical theory, it was hard to know whether you were going to be able to prove it or whether other theories had just as good a claim on belief.”
“If God is satisfied with the work, the work may be satisfied with itself.”
“I'm afraid when too many people know too much about you, it actually makes us all a lot more boring because you're afraid to express yourself.”

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“I never thought I could travel unless I had a wife or someone to share it with. You don't necessarily need that, but I am the type of person that wants to share a lot.”
“It is while you are patiently toiling at the little tasks of life that the meaning and shape of the great whole of life dawn on you.”

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