Charles Duhigg Quotes

Secrecy is what is known, but not to everyone. Privacy is what allows us to keep what we know to ourselves.

I think that we have to have the ability to decide what we share and what we don't.

Keep the problems of clients and prospects confidential. Divulge information only with their consent.

Not all things are to be discovered; many are better concealed.

Our lives are no one's business but our own, and information about our lives belongs to no one except the people we choose to share it with…. Refuse to cooperate. Lie, stonewall, do whatever you have to do to keep yourself out of the databases, or to screw up the databases.

As much as possible, you simply don't give out information to the public, that is the first principle.

Nothing on paper; paper can be lost or stolen or simply inherited by the wrong people; if you want to keep something secret, don't write it down.

Secrecy is for losers. For people who do not know how important the information really is.

The way I look at it is, if you don't want somebody to know something, don't say it. If you don't want them to see you do something, don't do it.

Keep your secrets Keep your silence It is a better gift than truth

Some information I just keep to myself.

There are some occasions in which a man must tell half his secret, in order to conceal the rest: but there is seldom one in which a man should tell it all.

I have never regretted erring on the side of withholding information.

There are some secrets we keep because we can't bear to let them out and some because it's better to keep them in.

Confidentiality is the essence of being trusted.

Do people ever reflect, one wonders, that the best way to protect against the penetration of one's secrets by others is to have the minimum of secrets to conceal?

I never talk about auditions. Even if I've got the role, I won't tell people until we're literally filming it.

I've always been really interested in secrets - how people find ways of doing things without telling anyone else in order to keep themselves feeling safe in the world.

Oh, well, there's a difference between privacy and secrecy.

There's always a sense that people will do things quite differently if they think they have privacy.

We all have secrets. We've all kept secrets. We've had secrets kept from us, and we know how that feels.

It's not my habit to kiss and tell. I've never done it.

It's more fun to keep stuff secret.

People think because you're private, you have something you don't want them to know.

Mum's the word.