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The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.

William James

To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
WILLIAM JAMES

Art Life Positive
Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
WILLIAM JAMES

Accepting Daring Ideas
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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Able Accompanying Thinking
Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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Attention Belief Facts
Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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Attitude Changing Men
[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.
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Differences Important Personality
In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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Educational Philosophy School
True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot
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Ideas Truth Verify
The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
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Die Education Philosophical
Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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Affection Alpha Omega
If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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Esteem Leadership Quality Self
The true’to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as ‘the right’ is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.
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Briefly Thinking True Way
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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Inspirational Motivational Relationship
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality
I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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Happiness Music Philosophical
We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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Function Intellect Thinking

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