"Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation……" — William James
"Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another."
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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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Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought…
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The current global landscape is quite different from the not-too-distant past. The process of globalization has intensified, and the world…
— Michelle Bachelet
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Bond is the longest-running franchise ever and there's a reason for that: they are action movies but they are also…
— Javier Bardem
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I pray to be like the ocean, with soft currents, maybe waves at times. More and more, I want the…
— Drew Barrymore
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Filibusters have proliferated because under current rules just one or two determined senators can stop the Senate from functioning. Today,…
— Evan Bayh
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It is a fact that governments tend to put in place policies and strategies in response to current scenarios.
— Julie Bishop
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I kinda see my current position like this: Here's your five minutes in the toy store, so you gotta do…
— Ben Affleck
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Now that the Court has declared money to be speech, I say we replace the current Court with some Ben…
— Elayne Boosler
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A teacher is never too smart to learn from his pupils. But while runners differ, basic principles never change. So…
— Bill Bowerman
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There are five known gyres spinning around in our world's oceans. A gyre is a slowly moving spiral of currents…
— Brandon Boyd
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Anybody who has had the pleasure of reading an article about themselves in the press knows that, on the whole,…
— Jo Brand
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