Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
WILLIAM JAMESA sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
More William James Quotes
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Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.
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To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
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… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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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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Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
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Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
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Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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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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Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can’t tolerate.
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[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
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