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The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
— William James
Events are influenced by our very great desires.
— William James
Man lives for science as well as bread.
— William James
I'm not concerned with whether you got to the top. I want to know how far you climbed. That is where the real achievement is found.
— William James Moore
Our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest, which co-mingle their roots in the darkness underground.
— William James
As a rule reading fiction is as hard to me as trying to hit a target by hurling feathers at it. I need resistance to celebrate!
— William James
Work usually follows will.
— William James
The work that leads to a doctor's degree is a constant temptation to sacrifice one's growth as a man to one's growth as a specialist.
— William James
What holds attention determines action.
— William James
Life shall be built in doing and suffering and creating.
— William James
Truth in our ideas means their power to work.
— William James
To spend life for something which outlasts it.
— William James
I gave all up to him to do with me as he pleased, and was willing that God should rule over me at his pleasure,
— William James
I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
— William James
That which is most personal, is most interesting.
— William James
You can't out-perform your self-image.
— William James
The greatest empiricists among us are only empiricists on reflection: when left to their instincts, they dogmatize like infallible popes.
— William James
I will assume for the presentuntil next year
that it is no illusion. My first act of free will shall be to believe in free will. — William James
Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.
— William James
Evil is a disease; and worry over disease is itself an additional form of disease, which only adds to the original complaint.
— William James
The good or bad is not in the circumstance, but only in the mind ... that encounters it.
— William James
Why may we not be in the universe, as our dogs and cats are in our drawingrooms and libraries?
— William James
I am well aware how odd it must seem to some of you to hear me say that an idea is true so long as to believe it is profitable to our lives
— William James
Damn the Absolute!
— William James
As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
— William James
A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
— William James
It is astonishing how many mental operations we can explain when we have once grasped the principles of association
— William James
David McKay, 1900. Wolfe, Thomas. Look Homeward, Angel. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1929. Yeats, William Butler. A Vision
— James Hollis
Never underestimate the capacity of people to choose the easy way.
— William James Moore
In any project the important factor is your belief. Without belief, there can be no successful outcome.
— William James
Science as such assuredly has no authority, for she can only say what is, not what is not.
— William James
The essence of genius is to know what to overlook.
— William James
All religions and spiritual traditions begin with the cry Help!
— William James
Equality is attainable as long as you are part of the majority.
— William James
To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
— William James
Truth happens to an idea
— William James
To change one's life:1. Start immediately.
2. Do it flamboyantly.
3. No exceptions. — William James
Most men's friendships are too inarticulate.
— William James
A difference which makes no difference is no difference at all.
— William James
Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
— William James
I will act as if I do make a difference.
— William James
the Christian who seems to be so overmatched, is yet so unconquerable, II Cor. 12:9; James 5:11.
— William Gurnall
Time itself comes in drops.
— William James
When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.
— William James
An idea will infect another with its own emotional interest when they have become both associated together into any sort of a mental total.
— William James
Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
— William James
Action and feeling go together, and by regulating the action ... we can directly regulate the feeling.
— William James
Act the part and you will become the part.
— William James
We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
— William James
You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don't dream about.
— William James
The instinct of ownership is fundamental in man's nature.
— William James
A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
— William James
An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
— William James
The thinker philosophizes as the lover loves. Even were the consequences not only useless but harmful, he must obey his impulse.
— William James
For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
— William James
Experience is the great teacher; unfortunately, experience leaves mental scars, and scar tissue contracts.
— William James Mayo
When making the problem go away is more important than solving the problem leadership begins to fail. The easy way vs. The character way.
— William James Moore
Sobriety diminishes, discriminates, and says no; drunkenness expands, unites, and says yes. Not through mere perversity do men run after it.
— William James
The education of attention would be an education par excellence
— William James
Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
— William James
It is an interesting thing, love ," the Princess stated. "It can turn lambs into heroes, and heroes into lambs.
— James William Peercy
William James was not a prophet. He was a philosopher whose philosophy reflected his profound humanity.
— Stanley Hauerwas
Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
— William James
Instincts are things that you know but can not, as of yet, articulate
— William James Moore
Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
— William James
Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
— William James
Thoughts become perception, perception becomes reality. Alter your thoughts, alter your reality.
— William James
A man may not achieve everything he has dreamed, but he will never achieve anything great without having dreamed it first.
— William James
We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, never to be undone.
— William James
