William James Quotes
The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as a sculptor works on his block of stone. In a sense the statue stoodthere from eternity. But there were a thousand different ones beside it, and the sculptor alone is to thank for having extricated this one from the rest.
William James
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There were probably a few games I played where I should not have played, because of some nagging injuries or something. I used to always talk the managers into playing me, because I wanted to play so badly.
Gary Carter
Part of me thinks that innovation, real innovation in health care delivery, needs to happen from the bottom to the top.
Malcolm Gladwell
Elections have consequences, and at the end of the day, I won. So I think on that one I trump you.
Barack Obama
Guantanamo will be closed no later than one year from now.
Barack Obama
Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is always Judas who writes the biography.
Oscar Wilde
A man who publishes his letters becomes a nudist - nothing shields him from the world's gaze except his bare skin. A writer, writing away, can always fix things up to make himself more presentable, but a man who has written a letter is stuck with it for all time.
E. B. White
If a Woman can neither Love nor Honour, she does ill in promising to Obey.
Mary Astell
For man is not the creature and product of Mechanism; but, in a far truer sense, its creator and producer.
Thomas Carlyle
The English people, a lot of them, would not be able to understand a word of spoken Shakespeare. There are people who do and I'm not denying they exist. But it's a far more philistine country than people think.
Colin Firth
Reading is looked at like it's corny or lame, but you'd be surprised what you can find in a book.
Jaylen Brown
Sleep does make us all equal, it seems to me, like his big brother-Death.
Arthur Schnitzler
The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as a sculptor works on his block of stone. In a sense the statue stoodthere from eternity. But there were a thousand different ones beside it, and the sculptor alone is to thank for having extricated this one from the rest.
William James
