It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
WILLIAM JAMESThe 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.
More William James Quotes
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Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
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The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.
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But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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Just 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
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In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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