Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
WILLIAM JAMESIf you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
More William James Quotes
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It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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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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It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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Pure experience’ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.
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Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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Men’s activities are occupied into ways — in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.
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The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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