Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
WILLIAM JAMESIt is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.
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Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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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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The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
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What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.
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