William James Quotes About Quality

Quotes about: Quality

• If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.

  William James

  Leadership, Self Esteem, Quality

  "Do You Have Executive Presence?" by Paul Hellman, www.cnbc.com. April 1, 2010.

• An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.

  William James

  Philosophical, Quality, Ethics

  William James (2000). “Pragmatism and Other Writings”, p.242, Penguin

• We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can't tolerate.

  William James

  Best Friend, Cute Friendship, Quality

• 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.

  William James

  Strong, Real, Educational

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

• The suspicion is in the air nowadays that the superiority of one of our formulas to another may not consist so much in its literal 'objectivity,' as in subjective qualities like its usefulness, its 'elegance,' or its congruity with our residual beliefs

  William James

  Truth, Air, Objectivity

  William James (2000). “Pragmatism and Other Writings”, p.199, Penguin

• What a magnificent land and race is this Britain! Everything about them is of better quality than the corresponding thing in the U.S.... Yet I believe (or suspect) that ours is eventually the bigger destiny, if we can only succeed in living up to it.

  William James

  Believe, Destiny, Race

  William James, Elizabeth Hardwick (1980). “The Selected Letters of William James”, David R Godine Pub

• All the qualities of a man acquire dignity when he knows that the service of the collectivity that owns him needs them. If proud of the collectivity, his own pride rises in proportion. No collectivity is like an army for nourishing such pride.

  William James

  Army, Pride, Men

  William James (1987). “Writings, 1902-1910”, p.1289, Library of America

• Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.

  William James

  Quality, Pay, Supreme

  William James (1987). “Essays, Comments, and Reviews”, p.105, Harvard University Press

• The greatest discovery of the 20th Century is that our attitude of mind determines our quality of life, not circumstances.

  William James

  Attitude, Elderly, Discovery

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