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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.

William James

Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
WILLIAM JAMES

Culture Life Real
Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
WILLIAM JAMES

Alive Cost Wall
Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
WILLIAM JAMES

Capacity Genius Men
If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
WILLIAM JAMES

Changing Immediately Life Want
Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?
WILLIAM JAMES

Dream Play Science
Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
WILLIAM JAMES

Men Philosophical Philosophy
The 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.
WILLIAM JAMES

Art Men Philosophy
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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Agents Ordinance Uprising Wheels
In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
WILLIAM JAMES

Belief Extremes Matter
Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
WILLIAM JAMES

People Talking Unhappiness
To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
WILLIAM JAMES

Art Life Positive
Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one
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Owing Truth Views
The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
WILLIAM JAMES

Consciousness May Splits
There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
WILLIAM JAMES

Evil Healthy Individual
If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
WILLIAM JAMES

Leadership Motivation Philosophical
The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
WILLIAM JAMES

Growth Men Years

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