I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
WILLIAM JAMESWe 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.
More William James Quotes
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The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
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Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
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Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.
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You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
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If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest… But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.
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Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one
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We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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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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Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
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