Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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More William James Quotes
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You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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Truth happens to an idea
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For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
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Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
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Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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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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If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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