If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
WILLIAM JAMESTo give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
More William James Quotes
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A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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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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It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.
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If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.
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Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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New habits can be launched.
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Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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