« All Manual Labor Quotes
·
William James's Page
Manual Labor Quotes by William James
1 Manual Labor quote by William James
More Quotes by William James
William James has 511 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
-
I take it that no man is educated who has never dallied with the thought of suicide.
-
Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
-
To know psychology, therefore, is absolutely no guarantee that we shall be good teacher.
-
There is a stream, a succession of states, or waves, or fields (or whatever you please to call them), of knowledge, of…
-
Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to…
-
No reception without reaction, no impression without correlative expression, -this is the great maxim which the teacher ought never to forget.
-
Habit is second nature, or rather . . . ten times nature.
-
We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can, and as carefully guard against…
-
It is astonishing how many mental operations we can explain when we have once grasped the principles of association
-
The entire routine of our memorized acquisitions is a consequence of nothing but the Law of Contiguity. The words of a poem,…
-
Any object not interesting in itself may become interesting through becoming associated with an object in which an interest already exists. The…
-
An idea will infect another with its own emotional interest when they have become both associated together into any sort of a…
See all 511 quotes by William James »
More Manual Labor Quotes
Popular Manual Labor quotes from across the collection:
-
I thought Manual Labor was a Mexican golf pro.
— Lee Trevino
-
Home economics should find its way into the curriculum of every school because the scientific study of a problem pertaining to food,…
— Unknown Author
-
Growing up, being watched from the outside... it's kind of very taxing and maybe I should just do some kind of manual…
— Jennifer Connelly
-
When we of the so-called better classes are scared as men were never scared in history at material ugliness and hardship; when…
— William James
-
It is estimated that raising the retirement age to 70 would cut the shortfall by about 36%. But this proposal has some…
— Steve Israel
-
Never, however, do I take shortcuts. There is not path of least resistance in my training. What I do equates to hard…
— Dean Karnazes
-
Writing is manual labor of the mind: a job, like laying pipe.
— John Gregory Dunne
-
Manual labor to my father was not only good and decent for it's own sake but, as he was given to saying,…
— Mary Ellen Chase
-
Idleness is the enemy of the soul; and therefore the brethren ought to be employed in manual labor at certain times, at…
— Benedict of Nursia
-
It was closer to manual labor than shooting a film. I always think of something Michael Caton-Jones told me: 'Pain is temporary.…
— Leonardo DiCaprio
-
There are moments when art attains almost to the dignity of manual labor.
— Oscar Wilde
-
I would say I'd rather dig a ditch, you know, do hard, manual labor than write lyrics.
— Natalie Merchant
See all Manual Labor Quotes »
Browse William James Quotes by Category