"There is no more miserable human being than……" — William James
"There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision."
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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 Habitual Quotes
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one of 179 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.
— Charles Baudelaire
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It seems difficult, sometimes, to believe that there was a time when sentiments now become habitual, sentiments that imply not…
— Lascelles Abercrombie
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Your mind will be like its habitual thoughts; for the soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts. Soak…
— Marcus Aurelius
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Medals are great encouragement to young men and lead them to feel their work is of value, I remember how…
— Karl Pearson
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The way of cowardice is to embed ourselves in a cocoon, in which we perpetuate our habitual patterns. When we…
— Chogyam Trungpa
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We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can, and as carefully…
— William James
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You perceive now, my friends, what your general or abstract duty is as teachers. Although you have to generate in…
— William James
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Our volitional habits depend, then, first, on what the stock of ideas is which we have; and, second, on the…
— William James
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I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Man is not equally moral at all hours, this is well known. If his morality is judged to be the…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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All men feel a habitual gratitude, and something of an honorable bigotry, for the objects which have long continued to…
— William Wordsworth
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Once we're thrown off our habitual paths, we think all is lost, but it's only here that the new and…
— Leo Tolstoy
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