"For the moment, what we attend to is…" — William James
"For the moment, what we attend to is reality."
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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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We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.
— Jane Austen
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If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to…
— Samuel Butler
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Several people have told me that one of the most meaningful events they could attend would be something at the…
— Hillary Clinton
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I believe in an America where religious intolerance will someday end... where every man has the same right to attend…
— John F. Kennedy
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There are people who think that wrestling is an ignoble sport. Wrestling is not sport, it is a spectacle, and…
— Roland Barthes
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When neither high purpose nor the categorical imperatives of religion will do, the only argument against suicide is life itself.…
— Al Alvarez
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in the spring he will attend your botanical course. his natural turn is very strongly to the objects of your…
— Thomas Jefferson
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If, then, you wish to insure the interest of your pupils, there is only one way to do it; and…
— William James
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The art of remembering is the art of thinking. When we wish to fix a new thing in either our…
— William James
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I made the greater progress, from that clearness of head and quicker apprehension which generally attend temperance in eating and…
— Benjamin Franklin
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There are millions of children today who don't attend school. However, education is the only way to get ahead in…
— Azim Premji
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I never tell one client that I cannot attend his sales convention because I have a previous engagement with another…
— David Ogilvy
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