"We forget that every good that is worth……" — William James
"We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort. We postpone and postpone until those smiling possibilities are dead... By neglecting the necessary concrete labor, by sparing ourselves the little daily tax, we are positively digging the graves of our higher possibilities."
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William James
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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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Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally…
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In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes.
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I support concrete and progressive immigration reform based on three primary criteria: family reunification, economic contributions, and humanitarian concerns.
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Life is a canvas of many strokes where shades from different palettes meet into a picture so concrete that some…
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Art always opts for the individual, the concrete; art is not Platonic.
— Jorge Luis Borges
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We must support initiatives that provide clear, concrete measures and milestones that our troops need for defeating the insurgency, building…
— Sherrod Brown
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A city is a crazy concrete jungle whose people at the end of each day somehow make a small step…
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Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant…
— Dale Carnegie
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The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.
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Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.
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In the West there has always been the attempt to try make the religious building, whether it's a Medieval or…
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