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Out 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…
- Give your dreams all you've got, and you'll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
- Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will…
- The whole drift of my education goes to persuade me that the world of our present consciousness is only one out of many worlds of…
- Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being. They make very small use of their possible…
- The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly. What can be more base and unworthy than the pining, puling, mumping…
- 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…
- Failure, then, failure! so the world stamps us at every turn. We strew it with our blunders, our misdeeds, our lost opportunities, with all the…
- I have often thought the best way to define a man's character would be to seek out the particular mental or moral attitude in which,…
- You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
- Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
- As Charles Lamb says, there is nothing so nice as doing good by stealth and being found out by accident, so I now say it…
- Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.
- An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
- Whilst part of what we perceive comes through our senses from the object before us, another part (and it may be the larger part) always…
- The lunatic's visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact. Our civilization is founded on the shambles, and every individual existence…
- Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, 'This…
- If you say that this is absurd, that we cannot be in love with everyone at once, I merely point out to you that, as…
- We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, and never to be undone. Every smallest stroke of virtue or of vice leaves its ever…
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