Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
WILLIAM JAMESJust for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don’t want to do
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If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
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Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me.
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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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Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
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Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
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Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.
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Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
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The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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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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