The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
WILLIAM JAMESAnything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
More William James Quotes
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So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.
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If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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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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The strenuous life tastes better
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Man, biologically considered … is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.
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Give your dreams all you’ve got, and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
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No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.
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Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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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 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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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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