Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
WILLIAM JAMESScience, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
More William James Quotes
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With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.
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Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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All of our life is but a mass of small habits – practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual – that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.
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Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
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No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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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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When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.
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You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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