You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
WILLIAM JAMESThe great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
More William James Quotes
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Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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Individuality is founded in feeling
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A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual’s desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock
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We hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander’s eyes the success or failure of our conduct.
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Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
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The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
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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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To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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Truth happens to an idea
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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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We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
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The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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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.
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