William James Quotes
Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm ambidextrous when I eat. But playing tennis right-handed - I can't do it. I'm clueless.
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Positive thinking will let you use the ability which you have, and that is awesome.
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Nitric oxide was known for destroying things.
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I want to be a real artist to consumers. I want to be the real thing for them.
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But I think we need the international market.
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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.
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I looked up to my father when I was 7 and 8. I believed it was my calling to be in the big leagues. I'd been raised by a family that always told me I could do anything I wanted.
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Running is what keeps my weight down. I have to stay active or I could easily gain weight.
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I love creative people.
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The distinctions between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers, and New Englanders are no more. I am not a Virginian but an American.
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Whoever comes to me finds me a mirror to whatever is in his heart. Thus, I try to help him to see qualities in himself that he needs to overcome.
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My eyelashes are divas, so they will like a mascara brand one week or for a month, and then they'll just stop working for it. I go back and forth between Maybelline and Cover Girl, and then I carry around a primer, too.
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Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.
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Doing Shakespeare in the Park has always been a dream. Everyone else says Hamlet, but I want to play Romeo.
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I went out of my way to try not to be an artist, because I thought I would end up leading a miserable, obscure life. I tried to escape it for as long as I could, until I had to admit at 25 that that was my path.
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I guess I'll go to my grave as the Dodger, but at least I've made my mark on show-business history.
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What's better? Dogs or broomsticks? I mean will the world really ever know?
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There is a huge body of evidence showing that people do better in their work when they know why they're doing it in the first place. They do better when they see what they're doing contributes to something in the world.
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Comparing science and religion isn't like comparing apples and oranges - it's more like apples and sewing machines.
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The source of Pyrrhonism comes from failing to distinguish between a demonstration, a proof and a probability. A demonstration supposes that the contradictory idea is impossible; a proof of fact is where all the reasons lead to belief, without there being any pretext for doubt; a probability is where the reasons for belief are stronger than those for doubting.
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District of Columbia welfare. The welfare work of the District of Columbia is administered by several different boards dealing with charities and various correctional efforts. It would be an improvement if this work were consolidated and placed under the direction of a single commission.
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Liberty is the right to discipline ourselves in order not to be disciplined by others.
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Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
