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Work Quotes by William James
- All that we need explicitly to note is that, the more the passive attention is relied on, by keeping the material interesting; and the less…
- In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
- Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
- 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…
- Truth in our ideas means their power to work.
- We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can. . . . The more of the details…
- You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
- Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which…
- Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or…
- 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…
- All the daily routine of life, our dressing and undressing, the coming and going from our work or carrying through of its various operations, is…
More Work Quotes
- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
- Obviously, I come from one background, and the people that design fitness equipment have been doing it for years and years, and… — Lance Armstrong
- Successful people don't relax on a chair. They feel relaxed with their work. They sleep with their dreams and wake up with… — Ritu Ghatourey
- All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. — Aristotle
- Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. — Richard Bach
- I just let the work speak for itself. An actor is not afraid to take risks; to put on different hats; to… — Kevin Bacon