When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.
WILLIAM JAMESWhen once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.
WILLIAM JAMESDeepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
WILLIAM JAMESMan, biologically considered … is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.
WILLIAM JAMESThe discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time
WILLIAM JAMESScience, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
WILLIAM JAMESEarnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
WILLIAM JAMESIt is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
WILLIAM JAMESImpulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
WILLIAM JAMESA paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
WILLIAM JAMESSo to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end…and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.
WILLIAM JAMESLanguage is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
WILLIAM JAMESJust for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don’t want to do
WILLIAM JAMESAs long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
WILLIAM JAMESMen habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
WILLIAM JAMESThe attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
WILLIAM JAMESAll of our life is but a mass of small habits – practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual – that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.
WILLIAM JAMES