"Need and struggle are what excite and inspire…" — William James
"Need and struggle are what excite and inspire us."
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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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More Excite Quotes
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The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions…
— Mary Astell
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Ideas excite me, and as soon as I get excited, the adrenaline gets going and the next thing I know…
— Ray Bradbury
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When it comes down to it, it's giving people a good night out in a basic way and I think…
— Matthew Bourne
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Excitement is the more practical synonym for happiness, and it is precisely what you should strive to chase. It is…
— Tim Ferriss
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I think we came out the last couple of game and have been able to get it going. The first…
— Jarome Iginla
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The job of a teacher is to excite in the young a boundless sense of curiosity about life, so that…
— John Garrett
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Let everything in creation draw you to God. Refresh your mind with some innocent recreation and needful rest, if it…
— Paul of the Cross
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The poor man commands respect; the beggar must always excite anger.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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There is certainly no greater happiness than to be able to look back on a life usefully and virtuously employed,…
— Samuel Johnson
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It is commonly supposed that the uniformity of a studious life affords no matter for narration: but the truth is,…
— Samuel Johnson
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It's important to excite the imagination of a woman.
— Oscar de la Renta
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If the purpose of lamentation be to excite pity, it is surely superfluous for age and weakness to tell their…
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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