"Procrastination is attitude's natural assassin. There's nothing so……" — William James
"Procrastination is attitude's natural assassin. There's nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task"
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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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Superstition is, always has been, and forever will be, the foe of progress, the enemy of education and the assassin…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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Whether we are describing a king, an assassin, a thief, an honest man, a prostitute, a nun, a young girl,…
— Guy de Maupassant
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The slanderer and the assassin differ only in the weapon they use; with the one it is the dagger, with…
— Tryon Edwards
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Whoever today speaks of human existence in terms of power, efficiency, and historical tasks is an actual or potential assassin.
— Albert Camus
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Say I feel all sad and self-indulgent, then get stung by a wasp, my misery feels quite abstract and I…
— Russell Brand
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How shall the murdered man convince his assassin he will not haunt him.
— Malcolm Lowry
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You know who deserves a posthumous Medal of Honor? James Earl Ray [the confessed assassin of Martin Luther King]. We…
— Rush Limbaugh
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You'd think a sociopath assassin wouldn't have a fan following but he does
— Laurell K. Hamilton
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I had always thought that the 'good,' and the 'bad' and the 'violent' did not exist in any absolute, essential…
— Sergio Leone
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Character assassination is at once easier and surer than physical assault; and it involves far less risk for the assassin.…
— Alan Barth
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In the year 1090, there was founded in Persia the religious and military order of the Assassins, whose history is…
— Harry J. Anslinger
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Why is the Rockefeller Commission so Single-Minded About a Lone Assassin in the Kennedy Case?,
— Unknown Author
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