Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
WILLIAM JAMESMan can alter his life by altering his thinking.
More William James Quotes
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There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don’t dream about.
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A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual’s desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock
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For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
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Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world’s life
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Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
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Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.
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When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.
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The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.
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The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.
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Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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