A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
WILLIAM JAMESFocus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.
More William James Quotes
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Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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