[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.
WILLIAM JAMESMan can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
More William James Quotes
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It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.
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Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don’t want to do
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Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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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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If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
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The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?
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For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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