If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
WILLIAM JAMESReal culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
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Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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Time itself comes in drops.
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Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world’s life
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Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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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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The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.
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We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.
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