Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.
WILLIAM JAMESThe impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
More William James Quotes
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In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
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It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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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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It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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