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... no bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.

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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Psychology is a science, and teaching is an art and sciences never generate arts directly out of themselves.
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An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don't want to do
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A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
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Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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Positive images of the future are a powerful and magnetic force... They draw us on and energize us, give us courage and will to take on important initiatives. Negative images of the future also have a magnetism. They pull the spirit downward in the path of despair.
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Our volitional habits depend, then, first, on what the stock of ideas is which we have and, second, on the habitual coupling of the several ideas with action or inaction respectively.
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The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.
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You make a great, very great mistake, if you think that psychology, being the science of the mind's laws, is something from which you can deduce definite programmes and schemes and methods of instruction for immediate schoolroom use.
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Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Nature in her unfathomable designs had mixed us of clay and flame, of brain and mind, that the two things hang indubitably together and determine each other's being but how or why, no mortal may ever know.
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To spend life for something which outlasts it.
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If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.
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Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.
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Choose a self and stand by it.
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For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
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Habit simplifies our movements, makes them accurate, and diminishes fatigue.
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Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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The difference between the first and second-best things in art absolutely seems to escape verbal definition -- it is a matter of a hair, a shade, an inward quiver of some kind -- yet what miles away in the point of preciousness!
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