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Likely Quotes by William James
- We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can, and as carefully guard against the growing into…
- The art of remembering is the art of thinking. When we wish to fix a new thing in either our own mind or a pupil's,…
- A genius is the man in whom you are least likely to find the power of attending to anything insipid or distasteful in itself. He…
- So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end...and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit…
- The voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our spontaneous cheerfulness be lost, is to sit up cheerfully, and act and speak as if cheerfulness were already…
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