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Formula to live your dream: 1. Be bold. 2. Begin now, 3. No exceptions.

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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
Formula
Bold
Formulas
Exception
Begin
Dream
Live
Exceptions
Corny

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An educated memory depends on an organized system of associations and its goodness depends on two of their peculiarities: first, on the persistency of the associations and, second, on their number.
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The belief in free-will is not in the least incompatible with the belief in Providence, provided you do not restrict the Providence to fulminating nothing but fatal decrees.
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Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
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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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A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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The pragmatist turns away from abstraction and insufficiency, from verbal solutions, from bad a priori reasons, from fixed principles, closed systems, and pretended absolutes and origins. He turns toward concreteness and adequacy, towards facts, towards action, and towards power.
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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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Act the part and you will become the part.
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The good we do today becomes the happiness of tomorrow.
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...as I apprehend the Buddhist doctrine of karma, I agree in principle with that.
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Psychology ought certainly to give the teacher radical help.
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To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. which give happiness. Thomas Jefferson We never enjoy perfect happiness our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction.
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