"This life is worth living, we can say,……" — William James
"This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it. --William James"
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484 Quotes by William James
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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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James Joyce was a synthesizer, trying to bring in as much as he could. I am an analyzer, trying to…
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Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in.
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I named my new son James Joseph Brown II. I think he's going to be a lot better than I…
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You can't really dance properly to James Brown. If you dance to James Brown, you look like an idiot. There's…
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I'm the first to admit that I like going to, or my memories at least of going to Clint Eastwood…
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The traditional spokespersons for the Evangelicals, such as Chuck Colson and James Dobson, have become alarmed about this drift away…
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Millions of guys play millions of basketball games every day of the week at the playground or the YMCA. But…
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The Secret Intelligence Service I knew occupied dusky suites of little rooms opposite St James's Park Tube station in London.
— John le Carre
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