Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
WILLIAM JAMESOur beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
More William James Quotes
-
-
Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
WILLIAM JAMES -
Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
WILLIAM JAMES -
You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
WILLIAM JAMES -
The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
WILLIAM JAMES -
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.
WILLIAM JAMES -
Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
WILLIAM JAMES -
To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
WILLIAM JAMES -
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
WILLIAM JAMES -
Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
WILLIAM JAMES -
A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual’s desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock
WILLIAM JAMES -
No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
WILLIAM JAMES -
Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
WILLIAM JAMES -
If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
WILLIAM JAMES -
Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
WILLIAM JAMES -
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.
WILLIAM JAMES