A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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.
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Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world’s life
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If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
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New habits can be launched.
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To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
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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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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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Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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