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• To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.

  William James

  Wise, Neglect, Deny

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• To kill time is not murder, it's suicide.

  William James

  Suicide, Murder

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• The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.

  William James

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.

  William James

  Men, Thinking, Small Rooms

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• Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

  William James

  Wisdom, Philosophical, Learning

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• The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.

  William James

  Stress, Weapons, Combat

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• We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort. We postpone and postpone until those smiling possibilities are dead... By neglecting the necessary concrete labor, by sparing ourselves the little daily tax, we are positively digging the graves of our higher possibilities.

  William James

  Effort, Digging, Littles

  William James (2008). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.62, Nuvision Pubns

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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.

  William James

  Change, Believe, Reality

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• Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

  William James

  Motivational, Happiness, Freedom

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• Give up the feeling of responsibility, let go your hold, resign the care of your destiny to higher powers, be genuinely indifferent as to what becomes of it all and you will find not only that you gain a perfect inward relief, but often also, in addition, the particular goods you sincerely thought you were renouncing.

  William James

  Letting Go, Giving Up, Responsibility

  William James (1985). “The Varieties of Religious Experience”, p.95, Harvard University Press

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• The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.

  William James

  Education, Enemy, Allies

  William James (2012). “The Principles of Psychology”, p.122, Courier Corporation

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• Whenever two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is.

  William James

  Teamwork, Men, Two

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• Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

  William James

  Life, Success, Everyday

  William James (2012). “Psychology: The Briefer Course”, p.15, Courier Corporation

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• Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

  William James

  Life, Positive, Encouraging

  William James (2010). “The Will to Believe: And Other Essays in Popular Philosophy”, p.80, The Floating Press

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• Once a decision is reached, stop worrying and start working.

  William James

  Worry, Decision, Stop Worrying

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• Pessimism leads to weakness. Optimism leads to power.

  William James

  Uplifting, Optimistic, Positive Thinking

  "The Varieties of Religous Experience: A Study in Human Nature".

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• What holds attention determines action.

  William James

  Attention, Action, Determine

  William James (1961). “Psychology: The Briefer Course”, p.7, Courier Corporation

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• If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.

  William James

  Leadership, Self Esteem, Quality

  "Do You Have Executive Presence?" by Paul Hellman, www.cnbc.com. April 1, 2010.

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• All of our life is but a mass of small habits - practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual - that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.

  William James

  Spiritual, Military, Destiny

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• Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.

  William James

  Differences, Insightful, Making A Difference

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• Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.

  William James

  Funny, Dance, Laughter

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• You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don't dream about.

  William James

  Dream, May

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• So with the man who has daily inured himself to habits of concentrated attention, energetic volition, and self-denial in unnecessary things. He will stand like a tower when everything rocks around him, and when his softer fellow-mortals are winnowed like chaff in the blast.

  William James

  Men, Rocks, Self

  William James, Robert D Richardson (2010). “The Heart of William James”, p.114, Harvard University Press

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• Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one

  William James

  Truth, Views, Owing

  William James (2013). “The Meaning of Truth”, p.48, Courier Corporation

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• Real servants don't try to use God for their purposes. They let God use them for His purposes.

  William James

  Letting Go, Real, Trying

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