If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
WILLIAM JAMESHabit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.
More William James Quotes
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Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
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You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don’t dream about.
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Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.
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Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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