He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
WILLIAM JAMESIn all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
More William James Quotes
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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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Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
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To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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Individuality is founded in feeling
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You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
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Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don’t want to do
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The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.
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Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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I am well aware how odd it must seem to some of you to hear me say that an idea is true so long as to believe it is profitable to our lives
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No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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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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