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Give your dreams all you've got, and you'll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.

William James

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William James
Age: 68 †
Born: 1842
Born: January 11
Died: 1910
Died: August 26
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Act in earnest and you will become earnest in all you do.
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We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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A remarkable parallel, which I think has never been noticed, obtains between the facts of social evolution on the one hand, and of zological evolution as expounded by Mr. Darwin on the other.
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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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Science as such assuredly has no authority, for she can only say what is, not what is not.
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When happiness is actually in possession, the thought of evil can no more acquire the feeling of reality than the thought of good can gain reality when melancholy rules. To the man actively happy, from whatever cause, evil simply cannot then and there be believed in.
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It is so human a book that I don't see how belief in its divine authority can survive the reading of it.
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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 attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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To kill time is not murder, it's suicide.
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In any project the important factor is your belief. Without belief, there can be no successful outcome.
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I am tired of the position of the dried-up critic and doubter. The believer is the true full man. (from a biography of James by Robert D. Richardson)
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The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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No reception without reaction, no impression without correlative expression, -this is the great maxim which the teacher ought never to forget.
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I wished by treating Psychology like a natural science, to help her become one.
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