It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
WILLIAM JAMESIt seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
More William James Quotes
-
-
It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.
WILLIAM JAMES -
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.
WILLIAM JAMES -
I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
WILLIAM JAMES -
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
WILLIAM JAMES -
Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
WILLIAM JAMES -
Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
WILLIAM JAMES -
To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
WILLIAM JAMES -
Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
WILLIAM JAMES -
A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
WILLIAM JAMES -
To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
WILLIAM JAMES -
History is a bath of blood.
WILLIAM JAMES -
Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.
WILLIAM JAMES -
Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
WILLIAM JAMES -
To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
WILLIAM JAMES -
We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can’t tolerate.
WILLIAM JAMES