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First Quotes by William James
- An educated memory depends on an organized system of associations; and its goodness depends on two of their peculiarities: first, on the persistency of the…
- Our volitional habits depend, then, first, on what the stock of ideas is which we have; and, second, on the habitual coupling of the several…
- The exercise of voluntary attention in the schoolroom must therefore be counted one of the most important points of training that take place there; and…
- Considering the inner fitness of things, one would rather think that the very first act of a will endowed with freedom should be to sustain…
- Consciousness... does not appear to itself chopped up in bits. Such words as 'chain' or 'train' do not describe it fitly as it presents itself…
- First... a new theory is attacked as absurd; then it is admitted to be true, but obvious and insignificant; finally it is seen to be…
- We [may] answer the question: "Why is snow white?" by saying, "For the same reason that soap-suds or whipped eggs are white"-in other words, instead…
- The first effect of the mind growing cultivated is that processes once multiple get to be performed in a single act. Lazarus has called this…
- My first act of free will shall be to believe in free will.
- To begin with our knowledge grows in spots. ..What you first gain, ... is probably a small amount of new information, a few new definitions,…
- If there is aught of good in the style, it is the result of ceaseless toil in rewriting. Everything comes out wrong with me at…
- A man may not achieve everything he has dreamed, but he will never achieve anything great without having dreamed it first.
- My thinking is first and last and always for the sake of my doing, and I can only do one thing at a time.
- The first thing the intellect does with an object is to class it along with something else. But any object that is infinitely important to…
- Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
- Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.
- A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
- The first thing to learn in intercourse with others is non-interference with their own particular ways of being happy, provided those ways do not assume…
- Be willing to have it so. Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
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