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• When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice.

  William James

  Inspirational, Motivational, Philosophical

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• Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.

  William James

  Affection, Alpha And Omega, Alphas

  William James (1950). “The Principles of Psychology”, p.551, Courier Corporation

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• A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.

  William James

  Inspirational, Change, Dream

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• We must not just patch and tinker with life. We must keep renewing it. Embrace novelty and uniqueness.

  William James

  Unique, Novelty, Embrace

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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

  William James

  Inspiration, Exercise, Two

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• Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state.

  William James

  Giving, Realizing, Habit

  William James (2012). “The Principles of Psychology”, p.127, Courier Corporation

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• The transition from tenseness, self-responsibility, and worry, to equanimity, receptivity, and peace, is the most wonderful of all those shiftings of inner equilibrium, those changes of personal centre of energy, which I have analyzed so often; and the chief wonder of it is that it so often comes about, not by doing, but by simply relaxing and throwing the burden down.

  William James

  Responsibility, Self, Worry

  "The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature". Book by William James, 1902.

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• Every sort of energy and endurance, of courage and capacity for handling life's evils, is set free in those who have religious faith.

  William James

  Life, Religious, Courage

  William James (2016). “William James: Essays and Lectures”, p.252, Routledge

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• A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.

  William James

  Dance, Humor, Common Sense

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• We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can. . . . The more of the details of our daily life we can hand over to the effortless custody of automatism, the more our higher powers of mind will be set free for their own proper work.

  William James

  Life, Work, Hands

  William James (2012). “Psychology: The Briefer Course”, p.12, Courier Corporation

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• Act the part and you will become the part.

  William James

  Focus, Action

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• Truth is what will be steadily borne out by subsequent experience

  William James

  Truth Is

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• If you want a confidence, act as if you already have it. Try the "as if" technique.

  William James

  Motivational, Positive, Exercise

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• If any organism fails to fulfill its potentialities, it becomes sick.

  William James

  Sick, Failing, Ifs

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• Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.

  William James

  Motivational, Clever, Procrastination

  William James (2008). “The Letters of William James”, p.249, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The aim of science is always to reduce complexity to simplicity.

  William James

  Simplicity, Aim, Complexity

  1890 The Principles of Psychology, ch.9.

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• A genius is the man in whom you are least likely to find the power of attending to anything insipid or distasteful in itself. He breaks his engagements, leaves his letters unanswered, neglects his family duties incorrigibly, because he is powerless to turn his attention down and back from those more interesting trains of imagery with which his genius constantly occupies his mind.

  William James

  Family, Power, Men

  William James (1983). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.67, Harvard University Press

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• Beyond the very extreme of fatigue and distress, we may find amounts of ease and power we never dreamed ourselves to own; sources of strength never taxed at all because we never push through the obstruction

  William James

  Ease, May, Born To Run

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• Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.

  William James

  Believe, Men, Needs

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• Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.

  William James

  Love, Relationship, Marriage

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• The faculty of voluntarily bringing back a wandering attention, over and over again, is the very root of judgment, character, and will... An education which should improve this faculty would be the education par excellence.

  William James

  Character, Roots, Excellence

  William James (1961). “Psychology: The Briefer Course”, p.95, Courier Corporation

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• The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time

  William James

  Positive, Discovery, Important

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• No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may remain entirely unaffected for the better.

  William James

  Success, Uplifting, Taken

  William James, Robert D Richardson (2010). “The Heart of William James”, p.112, Harvard University Press

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• The function of ignoring, of inattention, is as vital a factor in mental progress as the function of attention itself.

  William James

  Science, Mind, Progress

  William James (2012). “The Principles of Psychology”, p.298, Courier Corporation

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• It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.

  William James

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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