"Most men have a good memory for facts……" — William James
"Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits."
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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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It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me…
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The colour of the skin is in no way connected with strength of the mind or intellectual powers.
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The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government…
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It's hard to give up the self-esteem connected to being codependent and appearing 'right,' which is probably a survival behavior…
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I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger,…
— Brendan Behan
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Liberty isn't liberalism, arbitrariness, but it's connected; it's conditioned by the great values of love and solidarity and in general…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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I think specifically because of the character that I played, people are very connected to her. I used to get…
— Amber Benson
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A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork. What is significant, and is…
— John Berger
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The mental body, like the astral, varies much in different people; it is composed of coarser or of finer matter,…
— Annie Besant
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Everything you want in life has a price connected to it. There's a price to pay if you want to…
— Harry Browne
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As connected as we are with technology, it's also removed us from having to have human connection, made it more…
— Sandra Bullock
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Y'know, every relationship is different. There are good marriages, bad marriages, connected partners, unconnected partners.
— Sandra Bullock
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