The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
WILLIAM JAMESFor the moment, what we attend to is reality.
More William James Quotes
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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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The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.
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[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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New habits can be launched.
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The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
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A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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