Arouse in the other person an eager want. He who can do this has the whole world with him. He who cannot walks a lonely way. - Dale Carnegie
Invention, using the term most broadly, and imitation, are the two legs, so to call them, on which the human race historically has walked. - William James
It would probably astound each of us beyond measure to be let into his neighbors mind and to find how different the scenery was there from that of his own. - William James
Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another. - William James
Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second. - William James
Most people, probably, are in doubt about certain matters ascribed to their past. They may have seen them, may have said them, done them, or they may only have dreamed or imagined they did so. - William James
Our colleges ought to have lit up in us a lasting relish for a better kind of man, a loss of appetite for mediocrities. - William James
Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it. - William James
Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation. - William James
Procrastination is attitude's natural assassin. There's nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task. - William James
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. - William James
Seize the very first possible opportunity to act on every resolution you make, and on every emotional prompting you may experience in the direction of the habits you aspire to gain. - William James
Since belief is measured by action, he who forbids us to believe religion to be true, necessarily also forbids us to act as we should if we did believe it to be true. - William James
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