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Very Quotes by William James
- From all these facts there emerges a very simple abstract program for the teacher to follow in keeping the attention of the child: Begin with…
- Considering the inner fitness of things, one would rather think that the very first act of a will endowed with freedom should be to sustain…
- Events are influenced by our very great desires.
- There is but one unconditional commandment ... to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.
- 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…
- [T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.
- Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?
- So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end...and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit…
- The faculty of voluntarily bringing back a wandering attention, over and over again, is the very root of judgment, character, and will... An education which…
- Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
- We hear in these days of scientific enlightenment a great deal of discussion about the efficacy of Prayer. Many reasons are given why we should…
- Between what a man calls me and what he simply calls mine the line is difficult to draw. We feel and act about certain things…
- Beyond the very extreme of fatigue and distress, we may find amounts of ease and power we never dreamed ourselves to own; sources of strength…
- To suggest personal will and effort to one all sicklied o'er with the sense of irremediable impotence is to suggest the most impossible of things.…
- Selection is the very keel on which our mental ship is built. And in this case of memory its utility is obvious. If we remembered…
- The voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our spontaneous cheerfulness be lost, is to sit up cheerfully, and act and speak as if cheerfulness were already…
- Many persons nowadays seem to think that any conclusion must be very scientific if the arguments in favor of it are derived from twitching of…
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