Bystanders Quote by William James Download Open image “. . . [we] read in the bystander's eyes the success or failure of our own conduct.” — William James ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bystanders Eye Failure Success Success or failure Teaching
We will always return to the private and inviolable act of reading as our culture's way of developing an individual. — Guy Davenport Copy Share Image
With traps and obstacles and hazards confronting us on every hand, only blindness or indifference will fail to turn in all humility, for guidance… — Benjamin Cardozo Copy Share Image
“The way to the hall of failure passes through the chamber of indecision. The way to the hall of success passes through the chamber… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“While success enjoys audience, failure on the other hand can't stand a witness.” — JOHN TASKINSOY Copy Share Image
... we must read, not only for what we read but for what it makes us think. — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
“Be it through intention or ignorance, our successes and our failures have been brought on by none other than ourselves.” — Garth Stein Copy Share Image
“Reading is an act of resistance in a landscape of distraction… We regain the world by withdrawing from it just a little by stepping… — David Ulin 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… — 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
Bring the viewer to your side, include him in your thought. He is not a bystander. You have the power to increase his perceptions… — Dorothea Lange Copy Share Image
New York is a wonderful place to shoot. The bystanders are great. They are enthusiastic. They respect the process, and you get the energy… — Jane Curtin Copy Share Image
Now that I think about it, maybe he is a werewolf. I can picture him lunging over the moors in hot pursuit of his… — Mary Ann Shaffer Copy Share Image
One only wishes Wayne LaPierre and his NRA board of directors could be drafted to some of these scenes, where they would be required… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“It is from the bystanders (who are in the vast majority) that we receive the propaganda that life is not worth living, that life… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
The proponents of UFOs offer up impressive quantities of principally eyewitness data, which although largely subjective and circumstantial in nature, is nevertheless quite intriguing…… — Peter Davenport Copy Share Image
The future is in our hands. We are not hapless bystanders. We can influence whether we have a planet of peace, social justice, equity,… — James Wolfensohn Copy Share Image
Why not allow patrons to comment on directors' decisions, vote on costume design, listen to dancers' conversations, volunteer to help out in ways beyond… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
History is said to be written by the victors. Fiction, by contrast, is largely the work of injured bystanders. — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
I've never had Internet access. Actually, I have looked at things on other people's computers as a bystander. A few times in my life… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
I'm just a friendly bystander who they occasionally ask questions of. That's my level of involvement. — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
“A person seldom falls sick, but the bystanders are animated with a faint hope that he will die.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
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