The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
WILLIAM JAMESIf you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
More William James Quotes
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Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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New habits can be launched.
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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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I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.
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For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
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On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
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Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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To consider hypotheses is surely always better than to dogmatize ins blaue hinein
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I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
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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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To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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Time itself comes in drops.
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