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• Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, 'This is the real me,' and when you have found that attitude, follow it.

  William James

  Inspirational, Attitude, Business

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• Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.

  William James

  Inspirational, Life

  William James (1985). “The Varieties of Religious Experience”, p.256, Harvard University Press

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  The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.

  William James

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

  William James

  Inspirational, Life, Hate

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• Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.

  William James

  Circles, People, Sith

  Letter toWincenty Lutoslawski, 6 May 1906

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• Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation. There is in the living act of perception always something that glimmers and twinkles and will not be caught, and for which reflection comes too late.

  William James

  Philosophy, Reflection, Perception

  William James (2015). “The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature”, p.149, Xist Publishing

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• Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.

  William James

  Encouragement, Sith, Emergencies

  Letter toWincenty Lutoslawski, 6 May 1906

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• It is your friends who make your world.

  William James

  Meaningful, Short Best Friend, My Best Friend

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• In the practical use of our intellect, forgetting is as important as remembering.

  William James

  Education, Teacher, Learning

  William James (2012). “Psychology: The Briefer Course”, p.167, Courier Corporation

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• There's nothing so absurd
  that if you repeat it often enough,
  people will believe it.

  William James

  Believe, People, Propaganda

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• A man may not achieve everything he has dreamed, but he will never achieve anything great without having dreamed it first.

  William James

  Men, May, Firsts

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• Man's chief difference from the brutes lies in the exuberant excess of his subjective propensities. Prune his extravagance, sober him, and you undo him.

  William James

  Lying, Men, Differences

  William James, John Dewey, John M. Capps, Donald Capps (2005). “James and Dewey on Belief and Experience”, p.52, University of Illinois Press

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• So you see that the process of education, taken in a large way, may be described as nothing but the process of acquiring ideas or conceptions, the best educated mind being the mind which has the largest stock of them, ready to meet the largest possible variety of the emergencies of life. The lack of education means only the failure to have acquired them, and the consequent liability to be 'floored' and 'rattled' in the vicissitudes of experience.

  William James

  Taken, Mean, Ideas

  William James (2008). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.115, Nuvision Pubns

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• In any project the important factor is your belief. Without belief, there can be no successful outcome.

  William James

  Inspirational, Successful, Important

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• My first act of free will shall be to believe in free will.

  William James

  Believe, Firsts, Free Will

  Diary, 30 Apr. 1870

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• We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.

  William James

  Men, Differences, Choices

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

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• The essence of genius is to know what to overlook.

  William James

  Philosophical, Essence, Genius

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• There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision, and for whom the lighting of every cigar, the drinking of every cup, the time of rising and going to bed every day, and the beginning of every bit of work, are subjects of express volitional deliberation.

  William James

  Drinking, Bed, Rising

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

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• If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.

  William James

  Leadership, Motivation, Philosophical

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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.

  William James

  Appreciation, Attitude, Philosophy

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• We can act as if there were a God; feel as if we were free; consider Nature as if she were full of special designs; lay plans as if we were to be immortal; and we find then that these words do make a genuine difference in our moral life.

  William James

  Differences, Design, Special

  The Varieties of Religious Experience Lecture 3 (1902)

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• When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.

  William James

  Inspiration, Action, Emotion

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• The education of attention would be an education par excellence

  William James

  Excellence, Would Be, Attention

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• As the art of reading (after a certain stage in one's education) isthe art of skipping, so the art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

  William James

  Wise, Art, Reading

  1890 The Principles of Psychology, ch.22.

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• Effort is a measure of a Man.

  William James

  Sports, Hockey, Men

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