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We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.

William James

If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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Esteem Leadership Quality Self
Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?
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Dream Play Science
The strenuous life tastes better
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Better Strenuous Taste
The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
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Ideas Men Twenties
No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Details Generalization Knowledge
Science, 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.
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Law Science Together
Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Character Mean Organization
The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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Consciousness May Splits
The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
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Allies Education Enemy
To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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Abnormal Philosophical Understanding
Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.
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Determine Feelings May
You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don’t dream about.
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Anything Dream Everything May
Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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Congratulations Self Esteem Success
Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
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Boiling Experience Over Way
A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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Change Dream Inspirational
We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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Data Powerful Science

We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.

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