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

William James

Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
WILLIAM JAMES

Differences Everything Insightful Making
So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end…and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.
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Anticipation Brave Use
What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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Believe Sound Truth
The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
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Intellectual Men Order
I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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Belief Believe Experience Lying
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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Clever Motivational Procrastination
Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Action Belief Really Rules
Individuality is founded in feeling
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Feelings Individuality Inspirational
All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.
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Health Love Wings
So 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.
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Children Effortless Reading Sky
So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.
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Feelings Self World
Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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Congratulations Self Esteem Success
As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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Expectations Long Zest
Man, biologically considered … is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.
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Beast Kind Men
We hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander’s eyes the success or failure of our conduct.
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Bystanders Eye Teaching
To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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Abnormal Philosophical Understanding

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