It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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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Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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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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We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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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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Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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The true’to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as ‘the right’ is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.
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Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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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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When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.
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For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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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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Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
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