Quote by William James Download Open image ““My thinking is first and last and always for the sake of my doing.”” — William James ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“The times you don’t have to think are when you get in your best thinking.” — Kate Hattemer Copy Share Image
My thinking is first and last and always for the sake of my doing, and I can only do one thing at a time. — William James Copy Share Image
“If I start to think,I'm going to think really hard about not thinking until I quit thinking” — James Dashner The Kill Order Copy Share Image
“Thinking Best Ever is one thing, making something else. Thinking goes round and round. Making rolls along, super slow maybe, but you don't end… — Jon Boorstin Copy Share Image
“In making a hard decision, don't just think once, but do think more than twice.” — Dydy Midnite Copy Share Image
“Thinking would keep me alive. But now I am alive and thinking is killing me” — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“Think the highest thought you can think, Feel into it, then expand it. Do this every morning.” — Blythe Ayne Copy Share Image
“My mind is filled with one thought and it runs through over and over and over.” — James Frey Copy Share Image
“Some thoughts are best left in the unthought corners of our minds. Most of them begin with What if . . .” — Michelle Houts Copy Share Image
Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world. — William James 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 feel this, such a sense of the vanity of our voluntary career comes over us, that all our morality appears but as a plaster hiding a sore it can never cure, and all our well-doing as… — William James Copy Share
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 as much of our old knowledge, as many of our old prejudices and belief, as we can. We patch and tinker more than we renew. The novelty soaks in; it stains the ancient mass; but it… — William James Copy Share
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 the waves sparkling and the sea-gulls circling around Fort Wagner's ancient site. But the great earthworks and their thundering cannon, the commanders and their followers, the wild assault and repulse that for a brief space made… — William James Copy Share
