William James Quotes
Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking is the one thing that assures the successful outcome of any venture.
William James
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I grew up hiking and horseback riding in Tennessee, so I love being outside. I will joyfully run 12 miles, but I'm not very good at boot camps. When they start yelling, I start laughing.
Rachel Boston
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The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts.
Earl Nightingale
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If anyone has followed my career, they know that there's been a lot of obstacles and a lot of ups and down through my career. But day in and day out, and in the square circle, I went out there and always did my best.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
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The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.
P. J. O'Rourke
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I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.
Cameron Sinclair
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On 'Death Valley,' I fought this werewolf, and he was picking me up and slamming me down. They put padding down in the garbage so he could really slam me down. They're flying around and I'm doing these jumping flying triangles pulling the guy down. It's just fun.
Caity Lotz
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Evidence points out that if you raise tariffs too much it will increase smuggling.
P. Chidambaram
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As the future is never known with certainty, the evaluation of the prospective benefits requires the formation of expectations. An acceptable house, partner or job, then, is one that offers an expected stream of future benefit that has a value in excess of the option to continue to search for an even better alternative.
Dale T. Mortensen
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Eventually, I decided that if I was going to really write a novel, I couldn't do it in New York City while holding down a job. You need a constant money source to live in New York City unless you're independently wealthy, which I'm not.
Rachel Kushner
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I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.
Mahatma Gandhi
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I try to get them to remember that they're not just athletes, but student-athletes.
Earl Campbell
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The experts who managed the original Marshall Plan say Afghanistan needs a commitment of at least $5 to $10 billion over 5 to 10 years, coupled with occupation forces of 250,000 Allied soldiers to keep the peace throughout the country.
Ted Rall
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You know to make his rigid, tedious, boring paintings seem at least a little human, the Mondrian enthusiasts keep insisting that Mondrian was a great tango dancer.
Peter Greenaway
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While they believe the pursuit of profit is important to sustaining a business, millennials also say that pursuit must be accompanied by a sense of purpose, by efforts to create innovative products or services, and, above all, by consideration of individuals as employees and members of society.
Punit Renjen
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I had to learn that there is more to the human being than material comfort, more than success, more even than national spirit or patriotism. That in any being worthy of being human there is also a demand for justice, for liberty, and that justice needs the evidence of all our lives, liberty is one and indivisible and collective, and no one can talk of justice solely for expediency's sake, nor of liberty while human beings, anywhere else on earth, are still in bondage.
Han Suyin
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As you get older, you think about things differently from when you do in your twenties, when you think you'll live forever.
David LaChapelle
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If I'm the president, I will call in all the different political opinions to come together and to make one front to the benefit of Mexico.
Enrique Pena Nieto
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Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking is the one thing that assures the successful outcome of any venture.
William James
