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The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.

William James

Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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People Talking Unhappiness
Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.
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Determine Feelings May
We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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Function Intellect Thinking
When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.
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Decision Order Responsibility
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
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Community Friendship Sympathy
Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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Facts Knowledge Science
We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.
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Example Human Nature Proud
Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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Learning Philosophical Wisdom
Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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Believe Men Needs
Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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Attitude Changing Men
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
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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Alive Attitude Authenticity
In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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Educational Philosophy School
Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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Contribution Effort World
Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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Attention Belief Facts
We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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Data Powerful Science

The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.

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