… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
WILLIAM JAMESOur beliefs are really rules for action.
More William James Quotes
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It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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Time itself comes in drops.
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[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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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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Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.
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Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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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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Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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