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The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
William James
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William James
Age: 68 †
Born: 1842
Born: January 11
Died: 1910
Died: August 26
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The same is true of Love, and the instinctive desire to please those whom we love. The teacher who succeeds in getting herself loved by the pupils will obtain results which one of a more forbidding temperament finds it impossible to secure.
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The exercise of prayer, in those who habitually exert it, must be regarded by us doctors as the most adequate and normal of all the pacifiers of the mind and calmers of the nerves.
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As a rule reading fiction is as hard to me as trying to hit a target by hurling feathers at it. I need resistance to celebrate!
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Compared to what we ought to be, we are only half awake. We are making use of only a small part of our physical and mental resources. Stating the thing broadly, the human individual thus lives far within his limits. He possesses power of various sorts which he habitually fails to use.
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If theological ideas prove to have a value for concrete life, they will be true, for pragmatism, in the sense of being good for so much. How much more they are true, will depend entirely on their relations to the other truths that also have to be acknowledged.
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The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals.
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There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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...By far the most usual way of handling phenomena so novel that they would make for a serious rearrangement of our preconceptions is to ignore them altogether, or to abuse those who bear witness for them.
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Effort is a measure of a Man.
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Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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Act in earnest and you will become earnest in all you do.
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The true'to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as 'the right' is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.
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True is the name for whatever idea starts the verification process, useful is the name for its completed function in experience
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Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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Psychology ought certainly to give the teacher radical help.
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It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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Thoughts become perception, perception becomes reality. Alter your thoughts, alter your reality.
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