The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is not a champion. That's what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they'll go through the pain no matter what happens. - Arnold Schwarzenegger
The attempt at introspective analysis... is in fact like seizing a spinning top to catch its motion, or trying to turn up the gas quickly enough to see the darkness. - William James
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual; the impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community. - William James
The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human can alter his life by altering his attitude. - William James
The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives. - William James
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another. - William James
The lunatic's visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact. Our civilization is founded on the shambles, and every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony. - William James
The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old. - William James
The moral flabbiness born of the exclusive worship of the bitch-goddess SUCCESS. That - with the squalid cash interpretation put on the word 'success' - is our national disease. - William James
The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers. - William James
The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour. - William James
The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal. - William James
There are no differences but differences of degree between different degrees of difference and no difference. - William James
There are two lives, the natural and the spiritual, and we must lose the one before we can participate in the other. - William James
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision. - William James
There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers. - William James
There's nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it. - 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 the fact. - William James
To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds. - William James
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