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Possible 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…
- 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…
- We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can...in the acquisition of a new habit, we must…
- Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is still theoretically possible ... faith is the readiness to act in a cause the prosperous issue…
- No more fiendish punishment could be devised, were such a thing physically possible, than that one should be turned loose in society and remain absolutely…
- We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can. . . . The more of the details…
- When a superior intellect and a psychopathic temperament coalesce in the same individual, we have the best possible condition for the kind of effective genius…
- The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
- A winner's attitude: it may be difficult, but it's possible. A loser's attitude: It may be possible, but it's too difficult.
- The unrest which keeps the never stopping clock of metaphysics going is the thought that the nonexistence of this world is just as possible as…
- Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
- An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
- A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
- The perfect stillness of the night was thrilled by a more solemn silence. The darkness held a presence that was all the more felt because…
- So you see that the process of education, taken in a large way, may be described as nothing but the process of acquiring ideas or…
- Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake. Our fires are damped, our drafts are checked. We are making use of…
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- If your heart is in it, anything is possible. — Nishan Panwar
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- Character makes trust possible, and trust is the foundation of leadership. — John C. Maxwell
- Sometimes I push too far, and say the worst possible things... But why would I want to be hurt again? trust is… — Unknown Author
- A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence… — Margaret Atwood
- In the future, instead of striving to be right at a high cost, it will be more appropriate to be flexible and… — Edward de Bono