Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
WILLIAM JAMESTo neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
More William James Quotes
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The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.
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If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.
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The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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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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Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.
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