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Effort is a measure of a Man.

William James

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William James
Age: 68 †
Born: 1842
Born: January 11
Died: 1910
Died: August 26
Philosopher
Physician
Psychologist
University Teacher
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Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
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A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.
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It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don't dream about.
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Once a decision is reached, stop worrying and start working.
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Geniuses are commonly believed to excel other men in their power of sustained attention . . . But it is their genius making them attentive, not their attention making geniuses of them.
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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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All our life, so far as it has definite form, is but a mass of habits.
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Every sort of energy and endurance, of courage and capacity for handling life's evils, is set free in those who have religious faith.
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Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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In the last analysis, then, we believe that we all know and think about and talk about the same world because we believe our PERCEPTS are possessed by us in common
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It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.
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In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true.
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The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
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Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two sentences is something for which the professorial intellect has no use. No faith in anything of that cheap kind!
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It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.
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There is a stream, a succession of states, or waves, or fields (or whatever you please to call them), of knowledge, of feeling, of desire, of deliberation, etc., that constantly pass and repass, and that constitute our inner life.
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Every time a resolve or a fine glow of feeling evaporates without bearing practical fruit is worse than a chance lost it works so as positively to hinder future resolutions and emotions from taking the normal path of discharge.
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