The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
WILLIAM JAMESGive your dreams all you’ve got, and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
More William James Quotes
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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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The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
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Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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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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The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the ‘pure’ experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.
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Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.
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Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.
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Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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We hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander’s eyes the success or failure of our conduct.
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The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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There is but one unconditional commandment … to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.
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All religions begin with the cry Help.
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