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Everybody ought to do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
Category: Adversity Author: William James
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The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.
Category: Attitude Author: William James
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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!
Category: Books and Reading Author: William James
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To change one's life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly. No exceptions.
Category: Carpe Diem Author: William James
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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.
Category: Dancing Author: William James
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When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice.
Category: Decisions Author: William James
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Habit is thus the enormous flywheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance, and saves the children of fortune from the envious uprisings of the poor.
Category: Habits Author: William James Source: The Principles of Psychology
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Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.
Category: Helping and Making a Difference Author: William James
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The great use of life is to spend it for something that outlasts it.
Category: Helping and Making a Difference Author: William James
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History is a bath of blood.
Category: History Author: William James
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Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
Category: Language Author: William James
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All our scientific and philosophic ideals are altars to unknown gods.
Category: Miscellaneous Author: William James
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Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.
Category: Perseverance Author: William James
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We have grown literally afraid to be poor. We despise anyone who elects to be poor in order to simplify and save his inner life. If he does not join the general scramble and pant with the money-making street, we deem him spiritless and lacking in ambition.
Category: Poverty Author: William James
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The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
Category: Poverty Author: William James
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Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
Category: Procrastination Author: William James
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A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
Category: Responsibility Author: William James
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Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
Category: Science Author: William James
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The moral flabbiness born of the bitch-goddess SUCCESS. That - with the squalid interpretation put on the word success - is our national disease.
Category: Success Author: William James
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Thinking is] what a great many people think they are doing when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
Category: Thinking Author: William James
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