The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
WILLIAM JAMESFocus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.
More William James Quotes
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So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.
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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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But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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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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The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
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Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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Pure experience’ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.
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We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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