Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.
WILLIAM JAMESPure experience’ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.
More William James Quotes
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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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The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
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Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
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New habits can be launched.
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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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Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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Men’s activities are occupied into ways — in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
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The drunken consciousness is one bit of the mystic consciousness, and our total opinion of it must find its place in our opinion of that larger whole.
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Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
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The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time
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A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
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