"My thinking is first and last and always……" — William James
"My thinking is first and last and always for the sake of my doing, and I can only do one thing at a time."
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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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I am lucky, I'm the first to admit that.
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Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.
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For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.
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He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.
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In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the…
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Retired is being tired twice, I've thought, first tired of working, then tired of not.
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The first time that you escape from home or the small town that you live in - there's a reason…
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For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'.
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