William James on islands
William James50 quotes“We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest… But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.”
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William JamesWilliam James It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
William JamesWilliam James A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
William JamesWilliam James Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
William JamesWilliam James In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
William JamesWilliam James We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can’t tolerate.
William JamesWilliam James The education of attention would be an education par excellence
William JamesWilliam James The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
William JamesWilliam James An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
William JamesWilliam James It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
William JamesWilliam James 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.
William JamesWilliam James I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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You have to kill to survive. People have been doing it forever. I eat meat, and I eat fish. If I were on a deserted island I would need that to survive.
Benicio Del ToroBenicio Del Toro I wanted to make a massive work so as soon as Nick Mitzevich invited me I said yes straight away and began to make the work.
Ben QuiltyBen Quilty Tourism is a crucial industry that could employ millions of Filipinos, skilled and unskilled alike, cross those 7,107 islands of the Philippines.
Benigno Aquino IIIBenigno Aquino III I think one of the thing that makes a Kubrick film a great experience is the fact that he bends reality to his will and is so confident that he ends up creating something that is the island in the stream of pop culture.
Barry PtolemyBarry Ptolemy Island of Hispaniola once so populous (having a population that I estimated to be more than three million), has now a population of barely two hundred persons.
Bartolome de las CasasBartolome de las Casas the islands of Italy combine all the elements – fire, water, earth, and air – and that is irresistible.
Barbara Grizzuti HarrisonBarbara Grizzuti Harrison Small islands of coherence in a sea of chaos can shift the whole system to a higher order.
Barbara Marx HubbardBarbara Marx Hubbard I love travelling, and had the pleasure of being in the most developed country in the world and then parts of two of the most pristine natural areas of the world: the Galapagos islands and the Equador Amazon jungle.
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