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If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
William James
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William James
Age: 68 †
Born: 1842
Born: January 11
Died: 1910
Died: August 26
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Real servants don't try to use God for their purposes. They let God use them for His purposes.
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Smitten as we are with the vision of social righteousness, a God indifferent to everything but adulation, and full of partiality for his individual favorites, lacks an essential element of largeness.
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Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
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I wished by treating Psychology like a natural science, to help her become one.
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Give your dreams all you've got, and you'll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
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Mental fire is what won't burn real sticks mental water is what won't necessarily (though of course it may) put out even a mentalfire.
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We must not just patch and tinker with life. We must keep renewing it. Embrace novelty and uniqueness.
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The faculty of voluntarily bringing back a wandering attention, over and over again, is the very root of judgment, character, and will... An education which should improve this faculty would be the education par excellence.
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As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use.
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The mind of your own enemy, the pupil, is working away from you, as keenly and eagerly as is the mind of the commander on the other side from the scientific general. Just what the respective enemies want and think, and what they know or do not know, are as hard things for the teachers as for the general to find out.
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How many of us persist in a precipitate course which, but for a moment of heedlessness we might never have entered upon, simply because we hate to change our minds.
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We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
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I will act as if I do make a difference.
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