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Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one
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William James
Age: 68 †
Born: 1842
Born: January 11
Died: 1910
Died: August 26
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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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The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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Need and struggle are what excite and inspire us our hour of triumph is what brings the void. Not the Jews of the captivity, but those of the days of Solomon 's glory are those from whom the pessimistic utterances in our Bible come.
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A great idea goes through three stages on its way to acceptance: 1) it is dismissed as nonsense, 2) it is acknowledged as true, but insignificant, 3) finally, it is seen to be important, but not really anything new.
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When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice.
William James
The man who knows governments most completely is he who troubles himself least about a definition which shall give their essence. Enjoying an intimate acquaintance with all their particularities in turn, he would naturally regard an abstract conception in which these were unified as a thing more misleading than enlightening.
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The prescription is that the subject must be made to show new aspects of itself to prompt new questions in a word, to change. From an unchanging subject the attention inevitably wanders away.
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Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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The whole drift of my education goes to persuade me that the world of our present consciousness is only one out of many worlds of consciousness that exist.
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If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me.
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I will act as if I do make a difference.
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We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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How pleasant is the day when we give up striving to be young-or slender.
William James
The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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The desire to gain wealth and the fear to lose it are our chief breeders of cowardice and propagators of corruption.
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The war against war is going to be no holiday excursion or camping party.
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Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
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If you only care enough for a result, you will almost certainly attain it. Only you must, then, really wish these things, and wish them exclusively, and not wish at the same time a hundred other incompatible things just as strongly.
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The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.
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