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Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.

William James

Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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Attitude Procrastination Tasks
To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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Blessed Deception Giving Up
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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Encouraging Life Positive
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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Determine Feelings May
Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Creativity Mean Science
Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
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Pay Quality Supreme
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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Beast Kind Men
A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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Individual Men Self
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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Clever Motivational Procrastination
The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
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Block Data Mind
The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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Attitude Mean Ugly
Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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Believe Men Needs
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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Anticipation Brave Use
In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Belief Extremes Matter
We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Habit Past Self
Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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Circles People Sith

Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.

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