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It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.

William James

We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
WILLIAM JAMES

Data Powerful Science
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
WILLIAM JAMES

Change Life Positive
Time itself comes in drops.
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Come Drop Philosophical Itself
You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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Altering Life Mind States
What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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Believe Sound Truth
It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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Important Realizing Teacher
The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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Attention Education Excellence
We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest… But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.
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Islands Roots Sea Underground
A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
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Men Responsibility Stronger
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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Life Stay Strong Ties
The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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Country Teacher Teaching
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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Fear Happiness Stress
[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.
WILLIAM JAMES

Differences Important Personality
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
WILLIAM JAMES

Encouraging Life Positive
No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Details Generalization Knowledge
With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
WILLIAM JAMES

Good Hell Intention Intentions

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