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William James has 511 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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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Considering the inner fitness of things, one would rather think that the very first act of a will endowed with freedom should…
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The exclusive worship of the bitch-goddess Success is our national disease.
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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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The most natively interesting object to a man is his own personal self and its fortunes. We accordingly see that the moment…
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If, then, you wish to insure the interest of your pupils, there is only one way to do it; and that is…
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All that we need explicitly to note is that, the more the passive attention is relied on, by keeping the material interesting;…
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The gist of the matter is this: Every impression that comes in from without, be it a sentence which we hear, an…
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The Detroit String Quartet played Brahms last night. Brahms lost.
— Bennett Cerf
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A world without tomatoes is like a string quartet without violins.
— Laurie Colwin
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Industry, economy, honesty and kindness form a quartet of virtue that will never be improved upon.
— Jamie Oliver
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I love working with the quartet. I have more freedom and flexibility.
— Boz Scaggs
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The most perfect expression of human behavior is a string quartet.
— Jeffrey Tate
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I owe very, very much to Mozart; and if one studies, for instance, the way in which I write for string quartet,…
— Arnold Schoenberg
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You can play Bach on the piano, a symphony orchestra or a quartet of saxophones, but let's stop this silly, childish business…
— Paul McCreesh
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I would like to hear Elliot Carter's Fourth String Quartet, if only to discover what a cranky prostate does to one's polyphony.
— James Sellars
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