"No living person is sunk so low as……" — William James
"No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody."
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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 Failure Quotes
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Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from…
— Karen Armstrong
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Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.
— Lance Armstrong
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For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a…
— Mary Kay Ash
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If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?'…
— Arthur Ashe
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Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.
— Marcus Aurelius
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Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.
— Marcus Aurelius
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Movies are not novels, and that's why, when filmmakers try to adapt novels, particularly long or complex novels, the result…
— Paul Auster
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Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all.
— Charles Babbage
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Some people will go to the opening of an envelope. They live their lives in the public eye and get…
— Jensen Ackles
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It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
— Roger Babson
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The main reason for the failure of the modern medical science is that it is dealing with results and not…
— Edward Bach
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People think when you have a, quote, 'bank failure,' that that is the end of the bank. And it isn't…
— Michele Bachmann
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