The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
WILLIAM JAMESThe deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
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With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me.
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The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
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As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can’t tolerate.
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Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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