There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
WILLIAM JAMESProcrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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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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It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.
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The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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Men’s activities are occupied into ways — in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
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Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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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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Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
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When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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