"My experience is what I agree to attend…" — William James
"My experience is what I agree to attend to."
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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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Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree.
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Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
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In any area of the U.N. we... have to agree on certain language that can represent the same spirit, but…
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I would agree that President Carter didn't live up to the expectation we all had when he came in 1976.…
— Michele Bachmann
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I have written too much history to have faith in it; and if anyone thinks I'm wrong, I am inclined…
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It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never…
— Charles Baudelaire
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One thing everyone seems to agree on is that Republicans face a perceived compassion deficit.
— Gary Bauer
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The message that I gave on the - on the steps today was that you need to stand for those…
— Glenn Beck
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We all agree now - by 'we' I mean intelligent people under sixty - that a work of art is…
— Clive Bell
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Our enmity toward God takes on many labels, such as rebellion, hard-heartedness, stiff-neckedness, unrepentant, puffed up, easily offended, and sign…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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