I am well aware how odd it must seem to some of you to hear me say that an idea is true so long as to believe it is profitable to our lives
WILLIAM JAMESThe union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
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The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
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[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.
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It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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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.
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With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.
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The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
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The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
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The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the ‘pure’ experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.
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Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one
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Time itself comes in drops.
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So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.
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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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Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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