William James Quotes

One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.

William James

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• There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Men
  • Fear
  • Two

• It's good to keep in mind that prominence is always a mix of hard work, eloquence in your practice, good timing and fortuitous social relations. Everything can't be personalized.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Good
  • Work
  • Mind

• All my life, I've been working with male directors, which I've really enjoyed. And I'm lucky in that I've worked with men who have a lot of respect for women. But working with a woman is a different experience. It feels like the communication is different.

  

  Gal Gadot
  • Life
  • Men
  • Different

• Thank God we're not like America. Everyone wants to look like they're 20. In Europe we admire grown-up women; I think men revere older women.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Up
  • God
  • Men

• Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • Men
  • Man
  • Find

• I don't tend to set out on huge world domination goals or have anything in mind. I just like to play. I like to gig a lot; I like to write music.

  

  Imelda May
  • World
  • Music
  • Mind

• I have yet to see a piece of writing, political or non-political, that doesn't have a slant. All writing slants the way a writer leans, and no man is born perpendicular, although many men are born upright.

  

  E. B. White
  • Men
  • Writing
  • Man

• Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Real

• If there is anything that keeps the mind open to angel visits, and repels the ministry of ill, it is human love.

  

  Nathaniel Parker Willis
  • Mind
  • Love
  • For Her

• There are hundreds of books about Woodrow Wilson, but I have an image of him in my mind that is unlike any picture I have seen anywhere else, based on material at Princeton and 35 years of researching and thinking about him.

  

  A. Scott Berg
  • Thinking
  • Mind
  • Picture

• It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Me
  • Feel
  • Mystery

• It's just cool for a girl to be able to do her own thing. I do a lot of movies, and I'm very lucky, and I'm not complaining. But in movies, alongside big action men, we've always got to take a step back and let the men shine.

  

  Maggie Q
  • Men
  • Girl
  • Action

• I don't know what my label is. I just think of myself as a plain forward. I like to think I have some finesse to my game, but inside the paint is where men are made. If you can't play there, you should be home with your mama.

  

  Karl Malone
  • Men
  • Home
  • Game

• Had 'Dhruva' not succeeded, I don't mind calling these films experimental.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Mind
  • Calling
  • Experimental

• Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.

  

  Sallust
  • Men
  • Thought
  • Ambition

• When public men indulge themselves in abuse, when they deny others a fair trial, when they resort to innuendo and insinuation, to libel, scandal, and suspicion, then our democratic society is outraged, and democracy is baffled.

  

  J. William Fulbright
  • Men
  • Society
  • Democracy

• I am well-nigh resolv'd to write no more tales but merely to dream when I have a mind to, not stopping to do anything so vulgar as to set down the dream for a boarish Publick.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Mind
  • Dream
  • Tales

• Most vampires I have discovered are men for some reason. I guess it's because of Dracula; people are kind of feeding off that.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • People
  • Men
  • Kind

• A mind should not be so open that the brains fall out; however, it should not be so closed that whatever gray matter which does reside may not be reached.

  

  Art Bell
  • Mind
  • May
  • Fall

• We are, as a sex, infinitely superior to men, and if we were free and developed, healthy in body and mind, as we should be under natural conditions, our motherhood would be our glory. That function gives women such wisdom and power as no male can possess.

  

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • Men
  • Women
  • Mind

• Marriage and being a mother are absolutely crucial to my happiness and my life.

  

  Keeley Hawes
  • Life
  • Mother
  • Marriage

• Across the country, people are willing to tighten their belts and sacrifice. The president should ask the oil industry to do the same.

  

  John Salazar
  • People
  • Country
  • Sacrifice

• I don't know how my mother did it, but I had boxing gloves on my hands when I was born!

  

  Fabio Gatti
  • Mother
  • Boxing

• One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.

  

  William James
  • Men
  • Mind
  • Discovery