In business for yourself, not by yourself.
WILLIAM JAMESThe world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
More William James Quotes
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Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
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Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.
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We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.
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The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
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The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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Man, biologically considered … is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.
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Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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History is a bath of blood.
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To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
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Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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