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Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.

William James

Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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Capacity Genius Men
Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Creativity Mean Science
Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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Men Small Rooms Thinking
I am well aware how odd it must seem to some of you to hear me say that an idea is true so long as to believe it is profitable to our lives
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Believe Ideas Truth
The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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Philosophical Prayer Worry
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
When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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Action Emotion Inspiration
A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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Change Dream Inspirational
Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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Educational Memories Philosophy
How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
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Happiness Laughter Men
The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
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Allies Education Enemy
We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
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Opposites Statement Truth
You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don’t dream about.
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Anything Dream Everything May
In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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Educational Philosophy School
Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don’t want to do
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Exercise Inspiration Somebody Two
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

Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.

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Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.

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