"Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination……" — William James
"Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours."
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484 Quotes by William James
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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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Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
— Isaac Asimov
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I was once a graduate student in Victorian literature, and I believe as the Victorian novelists did, that a novel…
— Margaret Atwood
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To be a good actor... it is necessary to have a firmly tempered soul, to be surprised at nothing, to…
— Sarah Bernhardt
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Karma brings us ever back to rebirth, binds us to the wheel of births and deaths. Good Karma drags us…
— Annie Besant
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For I firmly believe that Jewish life, indeed any communal life, can only be organized according to democratic principles.
— Theodore Bikel
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When I get on stage, my first goal is not to show my expertise, but on the contrary, to give…
— Andrea Bocelli
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Felicity, the companion of content, is rather found in our own breasts than in the enjoyment of external things; and…
— Daniel Boone
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We will use all lawful tools at our disposal, and that includes authorities under the renewed PATRIOT Act. We firmly…
— John O. Brennan
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If you would have your son to walk honourably through the world, you must not attempt to clear the stones…
— Anne Bronte
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I am firmly of the opinion that women who make a lot of effort to hang onto their looks in…
— Julie Burchill
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Many people in Europe and the U.S. dispute the thesis that we are living through a clash of civilisations between…
— Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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I am amazed at radio DJ's today. I am firmly convinced that AM on my radio stands for Absolute Moron.…
— Jasper Carrott
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