We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
WILLIAM JAMESIt is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
More William James Quotes
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It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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Time itself comes in drops.
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You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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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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A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
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A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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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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Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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