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It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.

William James

In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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Educational Philosophy School
We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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Data Powerful Science
If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Alcohol Feel Feelings Good
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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Inspirational Motivational Relationship
Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world’s life
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Educational Men Philosophy
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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Alive Attitude Authenticity
Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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Attitude Changing Men
A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual’s desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock
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Belief Desire Truth
Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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Broken Funny Habit
The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
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Ideas Men Twenties
Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Effort Exercise Life Love
Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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Fears Form Great Life Things
Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Human Nature Principles
We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
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Opposites Statement Truth
Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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Based Inspirational Life Test
So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.
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Feelings Self World

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