When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.
WILLIAM JAMESMan can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
More William James Quotes
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So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.
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Truth happens to an idea
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Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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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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Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
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The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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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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Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don’t dream about.
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The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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