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Time Quotes by William James
- Feed the growing human being, feed him with the sort of experience for which from year to year he shows a natural craving, and he…
- There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision, and for whom the lighting of every cigar, the…
- The most violent revolutions in an individuals beliefs leave most of his old order standing. Time and space, cause and effect, nature and history, and…
- When we of the so-called better classes are scared as men were never scared in history at material ugliness and hardship; when we put off…
- To kill time is not murder, it's suicide.
- Every time a resolve or fine glow of feeling evaporates without bearing fruit, it is worse than a chance lost; it works to hinder future…
- Once you accept an idea, it's an idea whose time has come.
- You can be an artist without visual images, a reader without eyes, a mass of erudition with a bad elementary memory. In almost any subject…
- My thinking is first and last and always for the sake of my doing, and I can only do one thing at a time.
- One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their…
- If you only care enough for a result, you will almost certainly attain it. Only you must, then, really wish these things, and wish them…
- Let anyone try, I will not say to arrest, but to notice or to attend to, the present moment of time. One of the most…
- The man whose acquisitions stick is the man who is always achieving and advancing whilst his neighbors, spending most of their time in relearning what…
- It is true that so far as wealth gives time for ideal ends and exercise to ideal energies, wealth is better than poverty and ought…
- The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
- Time itself comes in drops.
- I am done with great things and big things, great institutions and big success, and I am for those tiny, invisible molecular moral forces that…
- How can the moribund old man reason back to himself the romance, the mystery, the imminence of great things with which our old earth tingled…
- The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time
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- Years ago someone wrote [about me]: 'She characterizes Molly Weasley as a mother who is only at home looking after the children.'… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
- Never regret your past, the only thing you should regret is the time you've wasted with the wrong people. — Nishan Panwar