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Intelligence is a fixed goal with variable means of achieving it.
William James
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William James
Age: 68 †
Born: 1842
Born: January 11
Died: 1910
Died: August 26
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Procrastination is attitude's natural assassin. There's nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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In the dim background of our mind we know meanwhile what we ought to be doing: getting up, dressing ourselves, answering the person who has spoken to us, trying to make the next step in our reasoning. But somehow we cannot start.
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Psychology ought certainly to give the teacher radical help.
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