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

William James

Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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Broken Funny Habit
If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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Esteem Leadership Quality Self
Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
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Culture Life Real
To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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Change Life Philosophical
There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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Lying Misunderstood Statistics
The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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Inspire Mean Truth
To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Objects Truth World
You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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Altering Life Mind States
I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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Belief Believe Experience Lying
On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
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God Principles Theism
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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Law Science Together
Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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Facts Knowledge Science
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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Change Life Positive
We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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Attitude Circumstances Mere
There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.
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Finals Lasts Men
There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
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Esteem Failure Inspirational Self
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality
We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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Function Intellect Thinking
We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
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Best Effort Forget Hard Work
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
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
As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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Expectations Long Zest
You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
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Cash Experience Stream
I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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Happiness Music Philosophical
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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Encouraging Life Positive
The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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Firsts Lecture Psychology
To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
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Art Life Positive

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

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