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• Procrastination is attitude's natural assassin. There's nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task

  William James

  Attitude, Procrastination, Tasks

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• The ultimate test of what a truth means is the conduct it dictates or inspires.

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  Truth, Mean, Inspire

  William James (2002). “The Meaning of Truth”, p.300, Courier Corporation

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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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  Wish, Care, Enough

  William James (1983). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.84, Harvard University Press

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• The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.

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  Men, Ideas, Twenties

  William James (1961). “Psychology: The Briefer Course”, p.272, Courier Corporation

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• For the moment, what we attend to is reality.

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  Reality, Moments

  William James (2012). “The Principles of Psychology”, p.322, Courier Corporation

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• So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.

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  Self, Feelings, World

  William James (2012). “The Principles of Psychology”, p.310, Courier Corporation

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• The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.

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  Attitude, Mean, Ugly

  William James (2015). “The Varieties of Religious Experience”, p.88, Booklassic

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• Events are influenced by our very great desires.

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  Desire, Events

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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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  Attention, Unchanging, Made

  William James (1983). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.68, Harvard University Press

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• The one who thinks over his experiences most, and weaves them into systematic relations with each other, will be the one with the best memory.

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  Memories, Thinking, Experience

  William James (2012). “Psychology: The Briefer Course”, p.129, Courier Corporation

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• Each of us literally chooses, by his way of attending to things, what sort of universe he shall appear to himself to inhabit.

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  Optimistic, Acting, Way

  William James (2012). “The Principles of Psychology”, p.424, Courier Corporation

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• The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.

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  Feet, Long, Devil

  William James (2013). “The Varieties of Religious Experience”, p.50, Courier Corporation

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• The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.

  William James

  Psychology, Firsts, Lectures

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• The art of remembering is the art of thinking. When we wish to fix a new thing in either our own mind or a pupil's, our conscious effort should not be so much to impress and retain it as to connect it with something else already there. The connecting is the thinking; and, if we attend clearly to the connection, the connected thing will certainly be likely to remain within recall.

  William James

  Art, Philosophy, Educational

  William James (2008). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.70, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Emotional occasions, especially violent ones, are extremely potent in precipitating mental rearrangements. The sudden and explosive ways in which love, jealousy, guilt, fear, remorse, or anger can seize upon one are known to everybody. . . . And emotions that come in this explosive way seldom leave things as they found them.

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  Jealousy, Emotional, Guilt

  William James (1987). “Writings, 1902-1910”, p.185, Library of America

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• Man, biologically considered ... is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.

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  Men, Kind, Beast

  William James, Frederick Burkhardt, Fredson Bowers, Ignas K. Skrupskelis (1982). “Essays in Religion and Morality”, p.121, Harvard University Press

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• The further limits of our being plunge, it seems to me, into an altogether other dimension of existence from the sensible and merely understandable world. Name it the mystical region, or the supernatural region, whichever you choose. So far as our ideal impulses originate in this region (and most of them do originate in it, for we find them possessing us in a way for which we cannot articulately account), we belong to it in a more intimate sense than that in which we belong to the visible world, for we belong in the most intimate sense wherever our ideals belong.

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  Names, World, Way

  William James (1970). “Essays in Pragmatism”, p.131, Simon and Schuster

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• Whilst part of what we perceive comes through our senses from the object before us, another part (and it may be the larger part) always comes out of our own mind.

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  Mind, May, Perceive

  William James (2012). “Psychology: The Briefer Course”, p.196, Courier Corporation

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• Any object not interesting in itself may become interesting through becoming associated with an object in which an interest already exists. The two associated objects grow, as it were, together; the interesting portion sheds its quality over the whole; and thus things not interesting in their own right borrow an interest which becomes as real and as strong as that of any natively interesting thing.

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  Strong, Real, Educational

  William James (2008). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.78, Nuvision Pubns

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• A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.

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  Men, Self, Individual

  William James (2012). “The Principles of Psychology”, p.294, Courier Corporation

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• Belief is desecrated when given to unproved and unquestioned statements for the solace and private pleasure of the believer . . . It is wrong always, everywhere, and for every one, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.

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  Believe, Belief, Pleasure

  William James (1956). “The Will to Believe: And Other Essays in Popular Philosophy, and Human Immortality”, p.8, Courier Corporation

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• To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.

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  Life, Change, Philosophical

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• Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits.

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  Philosophy, Philosophical, Sublime

  William James, Frederick Burkhardt, Fredson Bowers, Ignas K. Skrupskelis (1979). “Some Problems of Philosophy”, p.199, Harvard University Press

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• There are two lives, the natural and the spiritual, and we must lose the one before we can participate in the other.

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  Spiritual, Two, Natural

  William James (2015). “The Varieties of Religious Experience”, p.161, Booklassic

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• There are no differences but differences of degree between different degrees of difference and no difference.

  William James

  Differences, Degrees, Different

  William James (1956). “The Will to Believe: And Other Essays in Popular Philosophy, and Human Immortality”, p.297, Courier Corporation

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