The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
WILLIAM JAMESHabit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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New habits can be launched.
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Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?
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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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It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.
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With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
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Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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