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Important Quotes by William James
- Be patient and sympathetic with the type of mind that cuts a poor figure in examinations. It may, in the long examination which life sets…
- 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…
- It is as important to cultivate your silence power as your word power.
- 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…
- The philosophy which is so important in each of us is not a technical matter; it is our more or less dumb sense of what…
- In any project the important factor is your belief. Without belief, there can be no successful outcome.
- I know that you, ladies and gentlemen, have a philosophy, each and all of you, and that the most interesting and important thing about you…
- [T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.
- If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me.
- 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…
- If evolution and the survival of the fittest be true at all, the destruction of prey and of human rivals must have been among the…
- When a thing is new, people say: ‘It is not true.’ Later, when its truth becomes obvious, they say: ‘It is not important.’ Finally, when…
- The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time
- Positive images of the future are a powerful and magnetic force... They draw us on and energize us, give us courage and will to take…
- In the practical use of our intellect, forgetting is as important as remembering.
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