I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
WILLIAM JAMESOur beliefs are really rules for action.
More William James Quotes
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We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest… But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.
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The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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New habits can be launched.
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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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It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
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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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But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
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