William James Quotes
Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.

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I don't think anyone feels older. You have this infinity inside you that feels like it could go on forever.
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I have a classic taste with a twist, because classic never goes away.
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If somebody says they really like my playing I say thanks a lot.
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I have spent a lot of time listening to people who are serving life sentences and getting to know them and the circumstances of their lives. I have never met anyone serving a long prison sentence who had anything close to what I could call a childhood; instead, the upbringings always - always - involve extreme situations of poverty and abuse.
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Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.
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Salaries and wages must reflect the reality of the enterprise's economic performance; deviations from the planned performance should be reflected in pay.
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As a developing musician, skiffle became a platform for me to start playing music.
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When you assume negative intent, you're angry. If you take away that anger and assume positive intent, you will be amazed. Your emotional quotient goes up because you are no longer almost random in your response.
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When we're back home, I feel pretty domesticated.
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In most cases, my favorite Jethro Tull songs will be determined by how I feel about them as live performance songs, not by the recorded identity.
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Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable.
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I think women today are really struggling with these dual roles: How do you have a full-time career and be ambitious and still take care of your family?
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Jobs has within him sort of this conflict, but he doesn't quite see it as a conflict between being hippie-ish and anti-materialistic but wanting to sell things like Wozniak's board. Wanting to create a business.
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The only rule is don't be boring and dress cute wherever you go. Life is too short to blend in.
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When my daughter wanted a toy and I had to check the price of it before buying it - that was one of the worst feelings.
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I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women... no woman has excited passions among women more than I have.
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Filming is a witnessing process. You don't try to control it, even though sometimes you wish you could because it can go really, really wrong for you.
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When I left school at 16, I became an apprentice television and radio technician, and was paid £17 a week, which was decent money in 1976. But the job turned sour when I gave myself an electric shock while repairing a television set.
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I have way more freedom in Los Angeles and in the U.S. But it's funny because when I have a meeting with producers or people from the industry, we go to a restaurant to meet someone, and nobody knows me. But all of the sudden, the entire kitchen comes out, and they start taking pictures with me, or at valet parking.
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Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.
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I definitely see myself as an international musician. When I play, I respect the source of the music, whether it's Cuban, Brazilian or Israeli. I try to bring that to all of the music I play. Music has no borders and no flags.
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If you spend your life living in fear or doubt, you will never actually live life, and will only be coexisting with the rest of the world.
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Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.