He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
WILLIAM JAMESEffort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
More William James Quotes
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The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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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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A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.
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The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.
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If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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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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