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In business for yourself, not by yourself.

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
W. James
Business
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To change one's life: a. Start immediately b. B. Do it flamboyantly c. No exceptions Never suffer an exception to occur till the new habit is securely rooted.
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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
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The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man's thoughts and another's.
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We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
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Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is 'ten times nature'.
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The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.
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Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions. Intellect, will, taste, and passion co-operate just as they do in practical affairs and lucky it is if the passion be not something as petty as a love of personal conquest over the philosopher across the way.
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Psychology saves us from mistakes. It makes us more clear as to what we are about. We gain confidence in respect to any method which we are using as soon as we believe that it has theory as well as practice at its back.
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To know psychology, therefore, is absolutely no guarantee that we shall be good teacher.
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Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them.
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Our life is always deeper than we know, is always more divine than it seems, and hence we are able to survive degradations and despairs which otherwise must engulf us.
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In order to disprove the assertion that all crows are black, one white crow is sufficient.
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We are mere bundles of habits.
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The instinct of ownership is fundamental in man's nature.
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On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
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Let no youth have any anxiety about the upshot of his education, whatever the line of it may be. If he keep faithfully busy each hour of the working-day, he may safely leave the result to itself. He can with perfect certainty count on waking up some fine morning to find himself one of the competent ones of his generation.
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We and God have business with each other, and in opening ourselves to God's influence our deepest destiny is fulfilled.
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There is but one indefectibly certain truth , and that is the truth that pyrrhonistic scepticism itself leaves standing, the truth that the present phenomenon of consciousness exists.
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