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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• Education is the mother of leadership.

  

  Wendell Willkie
  • Mother
  • Education
  • Leadership

• That's the great thing about entering a convent: There are things that you simply can't do, so you don't have to worry about them.

  

  Lars von Trier
  • Great
  • You
  • Worry

• I acquired a hunger for fairy tales in the dark days of blackout and blitz in the Second World War.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • World
  • War
  • Dark

• It is, therefore, essential that we guard our own thinking and not be among those who cry out against prejudices applicable to themselves, while busy spawning intolerances for others.

  

  Wendell Willkie
  • Thinking
  • Cry
  • Busy

• I taped the autopsy photos from Marilyn Monroe's death to my lunch box in fifth grade, and I would write stories in which someone inevitably died.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Death
  • Lunch
  • Box

• 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
  • Me
  • Always
  • Injuries

• Part of me thinks that innovation, real innovation in health care delivery, needs to happen from the bottom to the top.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Real
  • Health
  • Care

• Elections have consequences, and at the end of the day, I won. So I think on that one I trump you.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Trump

• Guantanamo will be closed no later than one year from now.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Guantanamo
  • Be Closed

• Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is always Judas who writes the biography.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Great
  • Man
  • Disciples

• 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
  • Up
  • Time
  • World

• Although the Perl Slogan is There's More Than One Way to Do It, I hesitate to make 10 ways to do something.

  

  Larry Wall

• The way I run my business seems to be easier than the way I run my life.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Life
  • Business

• The visa lottery system poses a national security threat. Under the program, each successful applicant is chosen at random and given the status of permanent resident based on pure luck.

  

  Bob Goodlatte
  • Luck
  • Random

• Sleep is getting to be like gold.

  

  Nicholas James Murphy
  • Sleep
  • Gold

• Artificial lighting, air-conditioning, and automobiles, all powered by fossil fuels, swaddle us in our giddy modernity. In our ergonomic chairs and acoustical-panel cubicles, we sit cozy as kings atop 300 years of flaming carbon.

  

  Charles C. Mann
  • Air

• Whenever I think of the high salaries we are paid as film actors, I think it is for the travel, the time away, and any trouble you get into through being well known. It's not for the acting, that's for sure.

  

  Bill Murray
  • Time
  • High
  • Travel

• We thought it would be great to see if you could put pop music back into musical theater.

  

  Neil Tennant Pet Shop Boys
  • Great
  • Music

• I want to save up money. This is probably long-term, but I for sure want to get into real estate and flip houses and start doing stuff like that. So I'm saving money. And, you know, being a kid at the same time. I want people to know I'm literally just a 16-year-old punk who's trying to hang out with some homies on the weekends.

  

  Lucky Blue Smith
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• Did I really earn this, or did I just wear you all down?

  

  Sandra Bullock
  • Earn

• I'm less of a 'Star Wars' fan, with googley monsters, than actually how do we bend this reality out, and how many other realities exist?

  

  Blair Brown
  • Reality
  • Star

• CASIS has to succeed because for it not to succeed would be a huge setback for the International Space Station program.

  

  Alan Stern
  • Space

• 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