"Every time a resolve or fine glow of……" — William James
"Every time a resolve or fine glow of feeling evaporates without bearing fruit, it is worse than a chance lost; it works to hinder future emotions from taking the normal path of discharge."
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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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A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the…
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Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing.
— Honore de Balzac
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First and foremost, the monk should own nothing in this world, but he should have as his possessions solitude of…
— Saint Basil
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Why in almost all societies have married women specialized in bearing and rearing children and in certain agricultural activities, whereas…
— Gary Becker
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Beware of geeks bearing formulas.
— Warren Buffett
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Just as Mars - a desert planet - gives us insights into global climate change on Earth, the promise awaits…
— Buzz Aldrin
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I have made my living bearing witness to some of the most horrific events of the end of our century,…
— Christiane Amanpour
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There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
— Maya Angelou
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I come bearing an olive branch in one hand, and the freedom fighter's gun in the other. Do not let…
— Yasser Arafat
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More than any other nation on Earth, America has constantly drawn strength and spirit from wave after wave of immigrants.…
— William J. Clinton
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In strategy your spiritual bearing must not be any different from normal. Both in fighting and in everyday life you…
— Miyamoto Musashi
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Intelligence is the flower of discrimination. There are many examples of the flower blooming but not bearing fruit. Bushido is…
— Nabeshima Naoshige
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