It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
WILLIAM JAMESBut facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
More William James Quotes
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Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
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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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Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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Men’s activities are occupied into ways — in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
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The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.
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You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
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The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don’t dream about.
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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
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Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me.
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