Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
WILLIAM JAMESMan, 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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The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
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Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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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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You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
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Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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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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If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
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A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres and infallibly prevails at last.
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I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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All of our life is but a mass of small habits – practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual – that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.
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That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me.
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If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can’t tolerate.
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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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[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.
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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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We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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