Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
WILLIAM JAMESExperience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
WILLIAM JAMESLet everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
WILLIAM JAMESAll of our life is but a mass of small habits – practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual – that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.
WILLIAM JAMESA new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
WILLIAM JAMESReal culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
WILLIAM JAMESIf you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
WILLIAM JAMESThe greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
WILLIAM JAMESOrganization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
WILLIAM JAMESTo change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
WILLIAM JAMESIf you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me.
WILLIAM JAMESThere can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
WILLIAM JAMESIt is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.
WILLIAM JAMESI myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
WILLIAM JAMESA chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
WILLIAM JAMESOur intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
WILLIAM JAMESWe forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
WILLIAM JAMES