If you dress a new something ...

If you dress a new something in old habits, it’s easier for the public to accept it.
If you dress a new something in old habits, it’s easier for the public to accept it.
 Charles Duhigg

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[The Jews] tried to kill the principles of all religions with the same mentality in which they betrayed Jesus Christ and the same way they tried to betray and kill the Prophet Muhammad.
 Bashar al-Assad
The Warrior Diet is the only diet today that challenges all common dietary concepts and offers a real alternative—guidelines that are not based on superficial restrictions, but rather on true principles of human nutrition.
 Ori Hofmekler
Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.
Men submit from habit to everything that seeks power.
My mother was the source from which I derived the guiding principles of my life.
 John Wesley

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Since the 17th century, insurance agents have been the foremost experts on risk.
 Charles Duhigg
The brain has this amazing ability to find happiness even when the memories of it are gone.
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There’s something really powerful about groups and shared experiences. People might be skeptical about their ability to change if they’re by themselves, but a group will convince them to suspend disbelief. A community creates belief.
 Charles Duhigg
Self-discipline has a bigger effect on academic performance than does intellectual talent.
 Charles Duhigg
However, to modify a habit, you must decide to change it. You must consiously accept the hard work of identifying the cues and rewards that drive the habits' routines, and find alternatives. You must know you have control and be self-conscious enough to use it -- and every chapter in this book is devoted to illustrating a different aspect of why that control is real.
 Charles Duhigg