"Our view of the world is truly shaped……" — William James

"Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear."

— William James

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484 Quotes by William James

William James has 484 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

I take it that no man is educated who has never dallied with the thought of suicide.
Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
To know psychology, therefore, is absolutely no guarantee that we shall be good teacher.
There is a stream, a succession of states, or waves, or fields (or whatever you please to call them), of…
Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting…
No reception without reaction, no impression without correlative expression, -this is the great maxim which the teacher ought never to…
Habit is second nature, or rather . . . ten times nature.
We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can, and as carefully…
It is astonishing how many mental operations we can explain when we have once grasped the principles of association
The entire routine of our memorized acquisitions is a consequence of nothing but the Law of Contiguity. The words of…
Any object not interesting in itself may become interesting through becoming associated with an object in which an interest already…
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 always leave that for other people to decide, because some of the things I consider to be disasters are… — Christian Bale
I leave before being left. I decide. — Brigitte Bardot
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The best plan now is to have as many bosses as possible. I call it boss diversity. If you work… — Scott Adams
If you want to end your isolation, you must be honest about what you want at a core level and… — Martha Beck
I didn't decide to be a photographer; I just happened to fall into it. — Berenice Abbott
Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell, no! — John Belushi
What you don't do, if you're an adult, is decide that you're going to budget things through a sequester. What… — Lewis Black
I think the journey for a politician goes from wanting to please all the people all the time, to a… — Tony Blair

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