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To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.

William James

We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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Data Powerful Science
We hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander’s eyes the success or failure of our conduct.
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Bystanders Eye Teaching
The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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Mind Moving Subconscious World
Man, biologically considered … is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.
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Beast Kind Men
Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
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Alive Cost Wall
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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Belief Desire Truth
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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Inspirational Motivational Positive
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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Inspirational Positive Success
To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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Abnormal Philosophical Understanding
The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Appreciation Creativity Desire
Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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Learning Philosophical Wisdom
The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
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Block Data Mind
Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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Attention Belief Facts
The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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Differences Extensions Relation
When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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Action Emotion Inspiration
Pure experience’ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.
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Flux Names Reflection

To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.

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