The education of attention would be an education par excellence
WILLIAM JAMESFocus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.
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Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
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The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world’s life
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We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
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Give your dreams all you’ve got, and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
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Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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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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Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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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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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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