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• You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.

  William James

  Mind, States

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• The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.

  William James

  Stress, Weapons, Combat

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• Real servants don't try to use God for their purposes. They let God use them for His purposes.

  William James

  Letting Go, Real, Trying

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• Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.

  William James

  Running, Dream, Inspirational Sports

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• What holds attention determines action.

  William James

  Attention, Action, Determine

  William James (1961). “Psychology: The Briefer Course”, p.7, Courier Corporation

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• The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.

  William James

  Education, Enemy, Allies

  William James (2012). “The Principles of Psychology”, p.122, Courier Corporation

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• Actions seems to follow feeling, but really actions and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not. Thus the sovereign voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our cheerfulness be lost, is to sit up cheerfully and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there.

  William James

  Feelings, Together, Path

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• Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.

  William James

  Positive, Success, Attitude

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• We don't laugh because we're happy - we're happy because we laugh.

  William James

  Happiness, Laughter, Laughing

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• When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice.

  William James

  Inspirational, Motivational, Philosophical

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• We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort. We postpone and postpone until those smiling possibilities are dead... By neglecting the necessary concrete labor, by sparing ourselves the little daily tax, we are positively digging the graves of our higher possibilities.

  William James

  Effort, Digging, Littles

  William James (2008). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.62, Nuvision Pubns

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• Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.

  William James

  Affection, Alpha And Omega, Alphas

  William James (1950). “The Principles of Psychology”, p.551, Courier Corporation

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• You can be an artist without visual images, a reader without eyes, a mass of erudition with a bad elementary memory. In almost any subject your passion for the subject will save you. If you only care enough for a result, you will almost certainly attain it. If you wish to be rich, you will be rich; if you wish to be learned, you will be learned; if you wish to be good, you will be good. Only you must, then, really wish these things, and wish them with exclusiveness, and not wish at the same time a hundred other incompatible things just as strongly.

  William James

  Memories, Eye, Passion

  William James (2008). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.108, Nuvision Pubns

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• So with the man who has daily inured himself to habits of concentrated attention, energetic volition, and self-denial in unnecessary things. He will stand like a tower when everything rocks around him, and when his softer fellow-mortals are winnowed like chaff in the blast.

  William James

  Men, Rocks, Self

  William James, Robert D Richardson (2010). “The Heart of William James”, p.114, Harvard University Press

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• Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity.

  William James

  Attitude, Capacity, Accomplished

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• Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

  William James

  Wisdom, Philosophical, Learning

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• To change one's life:
  a. Start immediately
  b. B. Do it flamboyantly
  c. No exceptions
  Never suffer an exception to occur till the new habit is securely rooted.

  William James

  Dream, Suffering, Habit

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• There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.

  William James

  Inspirational, Philosophical, Sadness

  Principles of Psychology (1890) vol. 1, ch. 4

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• 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.

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• The desire to gain wealth and the fear to lose it are our chief breeders of cowardice and propagators of corruption.

  William James

  Desire, Gains, Wealth

  William James (2013). “The Varieties of Religious Experience”, p.368, Courier Corporation

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• The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.

  William James

  Needs, Appreciated, Humans

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• A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.

  William James

  Dance, Humor, Common Sense

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• In order to disprove the assertion that all crows are black, one white crow is sufficient.

  William James

  Order, White, Black

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• The function of ignoring, of inattention, is as vital a factor in mental progress as the function of attention itself.

  William James

  Science, Mind, Progress

  William James (2012). “The Principles of Psychology”, p.298, Courier Corporation

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• It is your friends who make your world.

  William James

  Meaningful, Short Best Friend, My Best Friend

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