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.
WILLIAM JAMESIf you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
More William James Quotes
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The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.
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Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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Individuality is founded in feeling
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Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual’s desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock
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Give your dreams all you’ve got, and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
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For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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Man, biologically considered … is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.
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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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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
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