William James Quotes
There is a law in psychology that if you form a picture in your mind of what you would like to be, and you keep and hold that picture there long enough, you will soon become exactly as you have been thinking.
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In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.
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I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I've had and also the people I've had around me.
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Everybody with a gun has a checkpoint in Lebanon. And in Lebanon, you'd be crazy not to have a gun. Though, I assure you, all the crazy people have guns, too.
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Detroit's industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.
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My favorite soundtrack is 'Avatar.' It's the best thing in the world. I love it.
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When kids are met with the highest expectations and given the extra supports they need, they can be as motivated as kids anywhere.
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I don't want to dig in the truth all of the time. Let me dream.
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It's always good to be known. You want to build your brand up, want to build your name.
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I have a very musical family from my Scottish roots.
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The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it, the speed of his acceptance.
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Success breeds success, and failure leads to a sort of fallow period.
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If I had my druthers, I would be a brain in a jar, with a burlap skirt around the cart I'm on - I don't attend to my physical being much.
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There's a long life ahead of you and it's going to be beautiful, as long as you keep loving and hugging each other.
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I've come up in the scripted world, and I have wished there were more time slots for us to tell compelling scripted stories and not fill the airwaves with a lot of fluff and tabloid entertainment.
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All of a sudden, if you think about the entire ecosystem of connected devices that can pull down information, access content and allow me to share and work and communicate, the vast majority now are not Windows computers. They are iPhones. They are iPads. They are Android devices.
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I did not become great by association of The Beatles! Beatles make Maharishi great? Pah! It is a waste of thought.
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It is a changing world because of the newcomers who keep arriving and who leave us behind. Trying to keep pace with them is doomed to inglorious failure, especially as the pace has quickened so much.
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I believe in astrology as much as I do in genetics.
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To be honest, what I struggled with in my degree is what's so helpful when it comes to social media in that I lack focus. I'll start reading about evolutionary biology and end up on quantum physics. While that makes writing your dissertation very difficult, for a page like IFLS, that's amazing because I get a wide range of everything.
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My inspiration for writing is all the wonderful books that I read as a child and that I still read. I think that for those of us who write, when we find a wonderful book written by someone else, we don't really get jealous, we get inspired, and that's kind of the mark of what a good writer is.
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I'm not sure I have a role model per se, but I do deeply admire every woman who raises children and has to walk for water.
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We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.
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I was always taught that book keeping was more relevant than book reading. The only thing worth reading was meant to be a balance sheet.
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There is a law in psychology that if you form a picture in your mind of what you would like to be, and you keep and hold that picture there long enough, you will soon become exactly as you have been thinking.
