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The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the ‘pure’ experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.

William James

If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
WILLIAM JAMES

Esteem Leadership Quality Self
Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.
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Becoming Great Focus Woods
It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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Important Realizing Teacher
Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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Attitude Changing Men
Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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Fears Form Great Life Things
The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Appreciation Creativity Desire
Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Energy Mean Pain
But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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Combine Enough Fact Facts
The true’to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as ‘the right’ is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.
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Briefly Thinking True Way
When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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Action Emotion Inspiration
Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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Faith Hypothesis
If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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Changing Immediately Life Want
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.
WILLIAM JAMES

Bystanders Eye Teaching
The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
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Civilization Class Fear
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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Clever Motivational Procrastination
We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
WILLIAM JAMES

Data Powerful Science

The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the ‘pure’ experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.

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