"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, and for whom the lighting of every cigar, the drinking of every cup, the time of rising and going to bed every day, and the beginning of every bit of work, are subjects of express volitional deliberation."
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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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I'm sure most of us remember being a kid and you have all of this endless time where two weeks…
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I'm absolutely strict about it. When I land, I put my watch right, and I don't care what I feel…
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Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.
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A man can do a television interview and roll out of bed 15 minutes before; it's just not the same…
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I wake up every morning, look in the mirror and ask, 'Am I a sex symbol?' Then I go back…
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I have three phobias which, could I mute them, would make my life as slick as a sonnet, but as…
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The heart of the jealous knows the best and most satisfying love, that of the other's bed, where the rival…
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Birth control that really works - every night before we go to bed we spend an hour with our kids.
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Remember how you used to be able to feel your bed breathing and the walls spinning when you were a…
— Lynda Barry
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One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything everynight before you go to…
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This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to change his bed.
— Charles Baudelaire
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Early to bed and early to rise is a bad rule for anyone who wishes to become acquainted with our…
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