The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time
WILLIAM JAMESWe are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
More William James Quotes
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Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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Give your dreams all you’ve got, and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
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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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In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.
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Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot
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Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.
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There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.
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Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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