William James Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.
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Readers of novels often fall into the bad habit of being overly exacting about the characters' moral flaws. They apply to these fictional beings standards that no one they know in real life could possibly meet.
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Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
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When the mind has once formed the habit of holding cheerful, happy, prosperous pictures, it will not be easy to form the opposite habit.
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Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.
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You must acquire the habits and skills of managing a small amount of money before you can have a large amount. Remember, we are creatures of habit and, therefore, the habit of managing your money is more important than the amount.
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Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
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The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.
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You know you're living with the habit of zest if you purposefully choose the scenic route to wherever you are going. Or you choose clothing because you love the texture of the fabric. Or you pick a shampoo or cleaning product because you love the smell - smell being just as important to you as how the product works.
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I think there has been this really bad habit of environmentalists being insufferably smug, where they are sort of saying, 'This is the issue that beats all other issues,' or, 'Your issue doesn't matter because nothing matters if the earth is fried.'
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An excellent habit to cultivate is the analytical study of the King James Bible. For simple yet rich and forceful English, this masterly production is hard to equal; and even though its Saxon vocabulary and poetic rhythm be unsuited to general composition, it is an invaluable model for writers on quaint or imaginative themes.
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I'm not very good at vacationing or relaxing or planning any of that for myself. So I'm in the habit of piggy-backing off of gigs and deciding to stay an extra day.
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Kelly has a rather bad habit of interrupting.
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Every time I would open my mouth to sing, everybody was paying attention to me. It became a habit.
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Until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy.
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Professors simply can't discuss a thing. Habit compels them to deliver a lecture.
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Like, they know that I have a habit of rubbing my earlobes, I've been doing it since I was two.
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My books deliberately provide no answers or messages. I'm drilled in the habit of objectivity and also aware that the steady drip of fiction has more power than facts to shape opinion, so I handle it with caution.
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And as he lay there a far crack of lightning went bluely down the sky and bequeathed him in an embryonic bird's first fissured vision of the world and transpiring instant and outrageous from dark to dark a final view of the grotto and the shapeless white plasm struggling upon the rich and incunabular moss like a lank swamp hare.
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I do not give a damn about the dead. They died for the Communist Party and the Party can decide what it wants. I practice a live man’s politics, for the living.
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I have what I call A-list moments, but believe me, I'm still on the D-list.
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I don't look at this as a religious based thing. To me this is energy based.
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The more we feel concern for others and seek their well-being, the more friends we will have and the more welcome we will feel.
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New habits can be launched.
