William James Quotes

Don't preach too much to your pupils or abound in good talk in the abstract. Lie in wait rather for the practical opportunities, be prompt to seize those as they pass, and thus at one operation get your pupils both to think, to feel, and to do.

William James

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• Time Inc. has amazing titles - really great content.

  

  Laura Lang
  • Time
  • Great
  • Amazing

• Any people attempting to govern themselves by laws of their own making, and by officers of their own appointment, are in direct rebellion against the kingdom of God.

  

  Orson Pratt
  • People
  • God
  • Rebellion

• In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense.

  

  Sallust
  • War
  • Risk
  • Battle

• The first girl you go to bed with is always pretty.

  

  Walter Matthau
  • Pretty
  • Girl
  • You

• Because I've done so many different roles, I don't want to repeat myself. It's getting harder and harder to find something interesting. You never know - I might never make a film again.

  

  Maggie Cheung
  • Different
  • Done
  • Want

• I've always just talked to my family and my friends. I've never been a person that's gone through excessive therapy at all. Some people might say that I should.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • People
  • Family
  • Friends

• I have a very musical family from my Scottish roots.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Family
  • Very
  • Roots

• To be able to take my pictures, I have to look, all the time, at the people and places I care about.

  

  Sally Mann
  • People
  • Time
  • Care

• There once was a demographic survey done to determine if money was connected to happiness and Ireland was the only place where this did not turn out to be true.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • Money
  • Done
  • True

• I've always supported new music from classic bands, especially if it's good.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • Good
  • Music
  • New

• In a democracy, you don't need anyone's permission to form a new political party, publish a politically charged article, or organize a 'tea party.' And in open markets, individuals are free to buy and invest as they see fit.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Free
  • Political
  • Party

• I have to watch the news or my day is not complete.

  

  Patricia Clarkson
  • Day
  • News
  • Watch

• I did not become great by association of The Beatles! Beatles make Maharishi great? Pah! It is a waste of thought.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • Great
  • Thought
  • Beatles

• Based on 30 years of experience with the Iranians, they will give you 100 words. Trust only one of the 100.

  

  Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani
  • Experience
  • Words
  • Trust

• But I was sure of one thing. If God were a father, with children, that cleanliness I had been feeling wasn't God.

  

  Frances Farmer
  • God
  • Children
  • Father

• I wanted to only create a great perfume, not any perfume that would sell, but a great artistic one that the fans would not feel cheated by.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Great
  • Feel
  • Perfume

• Exhibitions are kind of ephemeral moments, sometimes magic moments, and when they're gone, they're gone.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Moments
  • Sometimes
  • Magic

• The Pawnee chief had left the village the day after the doctor arrived, with 50 or 60 horses and many people, and had taken his course to the north of our route.

  

  Zebulon Pike
  • People
  • Day
  • Taken

• I don't care for the applause one gets by saying what others are thinking; I want actually to change people's thoughts. Power over people's minds is the main personal desire of my life; and this sort of power is not acquired by saying popular things.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • People
  • Life
  • Thinking

• One of the most, in a weird way, encouraging things a director can say to an actor - I know this as an actor - is when you ask them a question, they say, I don't know - 'cause it means there's some space there for you to find out. And it means that there's going to be a process.

  

  Alan Rickman
  • Question
  • Space
  • Weird

• We cannot bear a pointless torment, but we can endure great pain if we believe that it's purposeful.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • Great
  • Believe
  • Pain

• I think it is essential for Israel's survival as a Jewish and democratic state that we end the status quo. The preferred way to end the status quo would be on the basis of a two-state solution. We don't want the Palestinians to be citizens of Israel, nor do we want them to be subjects.

  

  Michael Oren
  • Citizens
  • Would
  • Democratic

• Don't preach too much to your pupils or abound in good talk in the abstract. Lie in wait rather for the practical opportunities, be prompt to seize those as they pass, and thus at one operation get your pupils both to think, to feel, and to do.

  

  William James
  • Thinking
  • Opportunity
  • Waiting