Give your dreams all you’ve got, and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
WILLIAM JAMESWhere quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
More William James Quotes
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Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.
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If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.
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Truth happens to an idea
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I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.
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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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Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
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Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
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