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William James has 511 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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I take it that no man is educated who has never dallied with the thought of suicide.
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Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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To know psychology, therefore, is absolutely no guarantee that we shall be good teacher.
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There is a stream, a succession of states, or waves, or fields (or whatever you please to call them), of knowledge, of…
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Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to…
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No reception without reaction, no impression without correlative expression, -this is the great maxim which the teacher ought never to forget.
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Habit is second nature, or rather . . . ten times nature.
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We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can, and as carefully guard against…
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It is astonishing how many mental operations we can explain when we have once grasped the principles of association
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The entire routine of our memorized acquisitions is a consequence of nothing but the Law of Contiguity. The words of a poem,…
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Any object not interesting in itself may become interesting through becoming associated with an object in which an interest already exists. The…
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An idea will infect another with its own emotional interest when they have become both associated together into any sort of a…
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Whenever two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees The greatest pleasure in life…
— Walter Bagehot
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I think the same way about theatre, you go out there and you are creating a world for a moment that can…
— Jeffrey Jones
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The usefulness of a meeting rises with the square of the number of people present.
— Lane Kirkland
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Negative people present us with an accelereted personal growth opportunity.
— Gail Godwin
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A Christian who withdraws into himself, hiding all that the Lord has given him, is not a Christian! I would ask the…
— Pope Francis
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We are doubly willing to jump into the water after some one who has fallen in, if there are people present who…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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There are all kinds of ways that people present their films, but that's kind of a good feeling, if you can make…
— Gus Van Sant
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Though it was bright sunshine everyone felt suddenly cold. The only two people present who seemed to be quite at their ease…
— C.S. Lewis
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Whenever two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the…
— William James
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What it taught me was forgiveness. It taught me that when people present themselves in a certain way, there's probably some back…
— Denzel Washington
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Love is not everything, there are other people present around you, who cares about you and they always stay whether you are…
— Bilal Zahoor
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