Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
WILLIAM JAMESIt seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
More William James Quotes
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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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I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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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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Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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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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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.
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Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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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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To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.
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Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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