Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
WILLIAM JAMESOur beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
WILLIAM JAMESFor the moment, what we attend to is reality.
WILLIAM JAMESA man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
WILLIAM JAMESIndividuality is founded in feeling
WILLIAM JAMESIf you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
WILLIAM JAMESThe minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
WILLIAM JAMESAll natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.
WILLIAM JAMESSo 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.
WILLIAM JAMESTruth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
WILLIAM JAMESFor morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
WILLIAM JAMESThere is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
WILLIAM JAMESWe can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
WILLIAM JAMESLanguage is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
WILLIAM JAMESDeepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
WILLIAM JAMESThe union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
WILLIAM JAMESYou may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don’t dream about.
WILLIAM JAMES