The drunken consciousness is one bit of the mystic consciousness, and our total opinion of it must find its place in our opinion of that larger whole.
WILLIAM JAMESYou must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
More William James Quotes
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If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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All of our life is but a mass of small habits – practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual – that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.
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The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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Time itself comes in drops.
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It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
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It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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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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There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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