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William James: “To change one's life:  1. Start immediately.  2. Do it flamboyantly.  3. No exceptions.
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William James: “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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William James: “Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.
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William James: “We believe as much as we can. We would believe everything if we could.
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William James: “But actions originally prompted by conscious intelligence may grow so automatic by dint of habit as to be apparently unconsciously performed. Standing, walking, buttoning and unbuttoning, piano-playing, talking, even saying one's prayers, may be done when the mind is absorbed in other things. The performances of animal instinct seem semi-automatic, and the reflex acts of self-preservation certainly are so. Yet they resemble intelligent acts in bringing about the same ends at which the animals' consciousness, on other occasions, deliberately aims.
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William James: “With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure, no humiliation. So our self-feeling in the world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.
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William James: “The deepest craving of human nature is the need to be appreciated.
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William James: “A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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William James: “To change one's life, start immediately, do it flamboyantly, no exceptions.
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William James: “[T]he true is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as the right is only the expedient in the way of our thinking.
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William James: “The greatest discovery of our generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. As you think, so shall you be.
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William James: “If a man's good for nothing else, he can at least teach philosophy.
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William James: “How pleasant is the day when we give up striving to be young -- or slender.
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William James: “Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits.
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William James: “Truths emerge from facts, but they dip forward into facts again and add to them; which facts again create or reveal new truth (the word is indifferent) and so on indefinitely. The 'facts' themselves meanwhile are not true. They simply are. Truth is the function of the beliefs that start and terminate among them.
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William James: “These, then, are my last words to you: Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create that fact.”  more
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William James: “Cramming seeks to stamp things in by intense application immediately before the ordeal. But a thing thus learned can form but few associations.
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William James: “He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had tried and failed.
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William James: “The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths.
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William James: “Pragmatism asks its usual question. ‘Grant an idea or belief to be true,’ it says, ‘what concrete difference will its being true make in anyone's actual life? How will the truth be realized? What experiences will be different from those which would obtain if the belief were false? What, in short, is the truth's cash-value in experiential terms?’”  more
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William James: “A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
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William James: “Religion, whatever it is, is a man's total reaction upon life.”  more
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William James: “Genius means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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