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The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.

William James

The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
WILLIAM JAMES

Community Friendship Sympathy
If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
WILLIAM JAMES

Esteem Leadership Quality Self
We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.
WILLIAM JAMES

Example Human Nature Proud
If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Alcohol Feel Feelings Good
The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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Growth Men Years
Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?
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Dream Play Science
The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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Facts Insanity Vision
The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
WILLIAM JAMES

Firsts Lecture Psychology
Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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Mean Men Solitude
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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Inspirational Philosophical Sadness
Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Action Belief Really Rules
The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
WILLIAM JAMES

Philosophical Prayer Worry
A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres and infallibly prevails at last.
WILLIAM JAMES

Meaningful Motivational Perseverance
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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Pay Quality Supreme
The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
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Allies Education Enemy
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
WILLIAM JAMES

Inspirational Life Motivational

The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.

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