Contribution Quote by William James Download Open image “Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.” — William James ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Contribution Effort Hard work Originals This world Undervalued World
In one world, effort is a bad thing. It, like failure, means you're not smart or talented. If you were, you wouldn't need effort.… — Carol S. Dweck Copy Share Image
Effort is one of those things that gives meaning to life. Effort means you care about something, that something is important to you and… — Carol S. Dweck Copy Share Image
As Carol Dweck says, “Effort is one of the things that gives meaning to life. Effort means you care about something, that something is… — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image
Effort is the key in the relative; effortlessness is the key to the Absolute. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
All effort is in the last analysis sustained by faith that it is worth making — Ordway Tweed Copy Share Image
We are all potentially such sick men. The sanest and best of us are of one clay with lunatics and prison-inmates. And whenever we… — William James Copy Share Image
In the dim background of our mind we know meanwhile what we ought to be doing: getting up, dressing ourselves, answering the person who… — William James Copy Share Image
“Our minds thus grow in spots; and like grease-spots, the spots spread. But we let them spread as little as possible: we keep unaltered… — William James Copy Share Image
Woe to him whose beliefs play fast and loose with the order which realities follow in his experience; they will lead him nowhere or… — William James Copy Share Image
We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be. — William James Copy Share Image
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. — William James Copy Share Image
Most people, probably, are in doubt about certain matters ascribed to their past. They may have seen them, may have said them, done them,… — William James Copy Share Image
“How soon, indeed, are human things forgotten! As we meet here this morning, the Southern sun is shining on their place of burial, and… — William James Copy Share Image
There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere. — William James Copy Share Image
You should avoid hedging, at least that's what I think. You should be ashamed to die until you've made some contribution to mankind. — Vernon Johns Copy Share Image
I love Black Sabbath. They made an amazing contribution to music today. Almost every band that made it big in the Nineties owed a… — Dave Grohl Copy Share Image
There is still zero empirical evidence that anthropogenic production of CO2 is making any measurable contribution to the world's present warming trend. — Alexander Cockburn Copy Share Image
I have nothing but praise for the boy. He is easily the best player in the world. His contribution as a goal threat is… — Alex Ferguson Copy Share Image
The way a culture treats women in birth is a good indicator of how well women and their contributions to society are valued and… — Ina May Gaskin Copy Share Image
The excellence of this important contribution to genre literature CANNOT be overstated A masterwork. — William F. Nolan Copy Share Image
Of course, corporations and governments have a right to something for their money. They pay the wages. But they don't have the ethical right… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
Fundamentally transforming the foundations of the economy is the biggest contribution we can make towards building a sustainable future. The current economic crisis may… — Jonathon Porritt Copy Share Image
I think self-deprecation is such a disease, and I want to cure everybody of it and so that's my contribution. — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
It is in the measure that special methods acknowledge their common core in transcendental method, that norms common to all the sciences will be… — Bernard Lonergan Copy Share Image
Chaperons, even in their days of glory, were almost never able to enforce morality; what they did was to force immorality to be discreet.… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image