It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
WILLIAM JAMESIf you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
More William James Quotes
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I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
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We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.
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Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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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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We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
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Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
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The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.
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