No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
WILLIAM JAMESThe general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
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Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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Pure experience’ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.
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Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.
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You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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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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So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end…and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.
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