This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it. --William James — William James Copy Share Image
“William James said, ‘We don’t laugh because we are happy. We are happy because we laugh.” — Robin S. Sharma Copy Share Image
“The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.” —WILLIAM JAMES” — John Green Copy Share Image
I think it's a misreading of Dostoevsky to think of him as a programmatic theist. He's actually much closer to someone like… — Will Self Copy Share Image
“Psychologist William James said that possibly the deepest human need is the need to feel appreciated.” — Gary Chapman Copy Share Image
William James was not a prophet. He was a philosopher whose philosophy reflected his profound humanity. — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
This insistence on "having his say upon the universe" is the profoundest motive of William James thinking as well as of his… — Ralph Barton Perry Copy Share Image
“A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him. —William James, The Principles of Psychology” — Bessel A. van der Kolk Copy Share Image
“Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their life. —William James” — Aleatha Romig Copy Share Image
“We would do well to remember that the great pragmatist William James dedicated his extraordinarily wide-ranging Varieties of Religious Experience to none… — Bart Schultz Copy Share Image
William James once made an acute point about the relationship between happiness and expectation. He argued that satisfaction with ourselves does not… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
William James once said: "Progress is a terrible thing." It is more than that: it is also a highly ambiguous notion. For… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
“But a philosopher named William James responded that sometimes Clifford's advice is bad strategy. He said doubt is the wrong alternative when… — John Ortberg Jr Copy Share Image
“If volition is bound to social imperatives, as William James believed, and it's therefore easier to go to war than it is… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
“William James, in his “Talks to Teachers,” derided that “ceaseless frenzy” in which we always feel that we “should be doing something… — Ernest Kurtz Copy Share Image
I am also greatly indebted to Bergson, William James, and John Dewey. One of my preoccupations has been to rescue their type… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
PICARD: There is no greater challenge than the study of philosophy. WESLEY: But William James won't be in my Starfleet exams. PICARD:… — Gene Roddenberry Copy Share Image
“All our life,” William James told us in the prologue, “so far as it has definite form, is but a mass of… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
“Damasio has produced an influential theory about emotion-laden decision making, rooted in the philosophies of Hume and William James; this will soon… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
The first step is simply to accept the change as a reality. Acceptance is the opposite of rejection or resistance. Acceptance keeps… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The border between personal and transpersonal experience is a complex region. It is a territory often filled with spiritual and religious views.… — Richard J. Borden Copy Share Image
“O intalnire cu filozoful William James mi-a lasat o impresie de neuitat. Nu am putut sa nu tin minte aceasta scena: in… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“Two months after marching through Boston, half the regiment was dead; at the dedication, William James could almost hear the bronze Negroes… — Robert Lowell Copy Share Image
William James describes a man who got the experience from laughing-gas; whenever he was under its influence, he knew the secret of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“William James used to preach the “will to believe.” For my part, I should wish to preach the “will to doubt.” None… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
It would be wrong of me to suppose that just because I can form private mental images, that everyone can. As Francis… — David Berman Copy Share Image
“Many of the principles Dale Carnegie writes about in How to Win Friends and Influence People apply directly to communication. Keep the… — Dale Carnegie Training Copy Share Image
“-“The greatest discovery of this generation is the knowledge that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitude of mind”… — Sekou Obadias Copy Share Image
“ Displaying Warmth and Empathy Warmth means showing that you care about another person. Empathy is the capacity to share another person’s… — Jonathan Berent Copy Share Image
“...I have read but little of Madame Glyn. I did not know that things like "It" were going on. I have misspent… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
“More daring, though, was Jung’s uninhibited interest in spiritualism, which by this time had become a controversial topic on both sides of… — Gary Valentine Lachman Copy Share Image
“ The Cloud of Unknowing was written by someone who was exceedingly tough-minded in the sense in which William James used the… — Ira Progoff Copy Share Image
“He pulled out a thick black volume. "You've never read this, for example." The Savage took it. "The Holy Bible, containing the… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Darwin concluded that language ability is “an instinctive tendency to acquire an art,” a design that is not peculiar to humans but… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitude.-WILLIAM JAMES” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“William James wrote, “We are like islands in the sea, separate on the surface but connected in the deep.” — Wallace J. Nichols Copy Share Image
“Lincoln once began a letter saying: “Everybody likes a compliment.” William James said: “The deepest principle in human nature is the craving… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
