When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.
WILLIAM JAMESThe sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
More William James Quotes
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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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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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Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don’t dream about.
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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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The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the ‘pure’ experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.
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The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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New habits can be launched.
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When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
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