"It is as important to cultivate your silence……" — William James
"It is as important to cultivate your silence power as your word power."
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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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Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its…
— William Beveridge
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Therefore I feel that the aforementioned guiding principle must be modified to read: If you desire peace, cultivate justice, but…
— Norman Borlaug
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Every person is endowed with God-given abilities, and we must cultivate every ounce of talent we have in order to…
— Benjamin Carson
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What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.
— Jean Cocteau
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We profess to teach the principles and practice of medicine, or, in other words, the science and art of medicine.…
— Unknown Author
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The most innovative designers consciously reject the standard option box and cultivate an appetite for thinking wrong.
— Marty Neumeier
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A warrior must cultivate the feeling that he has everything needed for the extravagant journey that is his life. What…
— Carlos Castaneda
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Do not be troubled for a language, cultivate your soul and she will show herself.
— Eugene Delacroix
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Instead of boiling up individuals into the species, I would draw a chalk circle round every individuality, and preach to…
— Jane Welsh Carlyle
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It's ironic that those who till the soil, cultivate and harvest the fruits, vegetables, and other foods that fill your…
— Cesar Chavez
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What does labor want? We want more schoolhouses and less jails; more books and less arsenals; more learning and less…
— Samuel Gompers
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Education is the best means-probably the only means-by which nations can cultivate a degree of objectivity about each other's behavior…
— J. William Fulbright
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