Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.
WILLIAM JAMESExperience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
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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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It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
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Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.
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Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
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I am well aware how odd it must seem to some of you to hear me say that an idea is true so long as to believe it is profitable to our lives
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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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Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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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 a quality, act as if you already had it.
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With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
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