". . . [we] read in the bystander's……" — William James
". . . [we] read in the bystander's eyes the success or failure of our own conduct."
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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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The future is in our hands. We are not hapless bystanders. We can influence whether we have a planet of…
— James Wolfensohn
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In reviewing the history of the English Government, its wars and its taxes, a bystander, not blinded by prejudice nor…
— Thomas Paine
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The proponents of UFOs offer up impressive quantities of principally eyewitness data, which although largely subjective and circumstantial in nature,…
— Peter Davenport
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Bring the viewer to your side, include him in your thought. He is not a bystander. You have the power…
— Dorothea Lange
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Beauty is the mark God sets on virtue. Every natural action is graceful; every heroic act is also decent, and…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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It is very tempting to take the side of the perpetrator. All the perpetrator asks is that the bystander do…
— Judith Lewis Herman
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Never open your story with a character thinking, I advise my students. As a further precaution, don’t put a character…
— Les Standiford
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Are gun rights advocates arguing that roving gangs...shooting innocent bystanders constitutes a 'well-regulated militia'?
— Bill Hicks
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There are no bystanders in a dharmayudh - it is a holy war.
— Amish Tripathi
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Art changes posture and posture changes innocent bystanders.
— Seth Godin
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All male animals, including men, when they are in love, are apt to behave in ways that seem ludicrous to…
— Francis Galton
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There are moments in our lives when we summon the courage to make choices that go against reason, against common…
— Howard Schultz
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