"A genius is the man in whom you……" — William James
"A genius is the man in whom you are least likely to find the power of attending to anything insipid or distasteful in itself. He breaks his engagements, leaves his letters unanswered, neglects his family duties incorrigibly, because he is powerless to turn his attention down and back from those more interesting trains of imagery with which his genius constantly occupies his mind."
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William James
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484 Quotes by William James
William James has 484 quotes on this site.
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I take it that no man is educated who has never dallied with the thought of suicide.
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Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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To know psychology, therefore, is absolutely no guarantee that we shall be good teacher.
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There is a stream, a succession of states, or waves, or fields (or whatever you please to call them), of…
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Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting…
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No reception without reaction, no impression without correlative expression, -this is the great maxim which the teacher ought never to…
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Habit is second nature, or rather . . . ten times nature.
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We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can, and as carefully…
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It is astonishing how many mental operations we can explain when we have once grasped the principles of association
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The entire routine of our memorized acquisitions is a consequence of nothing but the Law of Contiguity. The words of…
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Any object not interesting in itself may become interesting through becoming associated with an object in which an interest already…
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An idea will infect another with its own emotional interest when they have become both associated together into any sort…
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I have a hat. It is graceful and feminine and give me a certain dignity, as if I were attending…
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I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.
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Here Stormbringer spies the Stepsons, the Theban fighters, and the 3rd Commando, attending to their own. In the face of…
— Janet Morris
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The purpose of life is to realize God within ourselves. This can be done even whilst attending to our worldly…
— Meher Baba
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After a child has arrived at the legal age for attending school,-whether he be the child of noble or of…
— Horace Mann
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We ought to deprecate the hazard attending ardent and susceptible minds, from being too strongly, and too early prepossessed in…
— George Washington
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Weapons are the tools of violence;all decent men detest them.Weapons are the tools of fear;a decent man will avoid themexcept…
— Laozi
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I still get excited just attending a final four, because the process is so long, so arduous, so challenging, that…
— Karch Kiraly
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The best way to economize time is to 'lose' half an hour each day attending Holy Mass.
— Frederic Ozanam
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As for butterflies, I can hardly conceive of one's attending upon you; but to question the congruence of the complement…
— Marianne Moore
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Births and deaths are inevitable for man only during the state of ignorance in which he thinks he is the…
— Paramahansa Yogananda
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It is a matter of public shame that while we have now commemorated our hundredth anniversary, not one in every…
— Henry Lawson
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