William James Quotes

We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.

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• The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Mind
  • Thoughts
  • Direction

• Obviously, I am a huge Matt Morrison fan, and I am a big Lea Michele fan because I know those guys from way back.

  

  Aaron Lazar
  • Fan
  • Matt Morrison
  • Lea Michele

• Thousands of years and many civilizations have defined a marriage as the union between one man and one woman. With few exceptions, those civilizations that did not follow that perished.

  

  Randy Neugebauer
  • Man
  • Marriage
  • Woman

• I think Don Cheadle has always done great work.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Work
  • Great
  • Done

• I was never that famous, but I do think going to college and really getting away from the business and taking a true break is incredibly, incredibly important if you start acting at a young age.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Important
  • Business
  • True

• Every village in Africa now has a cyber cafe.

  

  Patrick Chappatte
  • Now
  • Africa
  • Cyber

• Right now I'm so old that if I had a big gush of money, I don't know what I'd do with it. I don't travel anymore. I don't need anything, don't want anything. I'd give it to my son, I guess, and let him enjoy it.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Money
  • Travel
  • Son

• My big thing is to make sure the lipsticks taste good when you kiss. And, well, so far they taste pretty darn good.

  

  Patrick Dempsey
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Kiss

• I'm one of those pesky Brits.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Those
  • Brits

• My first name, with the rare two-r spelling, came from a sportswriter named Garry Schumacher. My parents didn't know him personally, but my mother liked the spelling.

  

  Garry Marshall
  • Mother
  • Parents
  • Name

• All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.

  

  Babe Ruth
  • Feel
  • Run
  • Quit

• I'm definitely not a super great guitarist. Ultimately, I just write a lot of love songs.

  

  Vance Joy
  • Great
  • Write
  • Songs

• I can change a light fixture, and I can do certain things. But I'm really bad in terms of construction. I can't do any of it on my own.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Bad
  • Light
  • Change

• 'Miss Rumphius' has been, perhaps, the closest to my heart. There are, of course, many dissimilarities between me and Alice Rumphius, but, as I worked, she gradually seemed to become my alter ego. Perhaps she had been that right from the start.

  

  Barbara Cooney
  • Heart
  • Right
  • Ego

• A closed mind is a dying mind.

  

  Edna Ferber
  • Mind
  • Dying
  • Closed

• I have legendary massive breakfasts at hotels. I don't hold back. I'll get there at 7A.M. and I'll be the last out at 11 A.M., having gone up and down the buffet seven times.

  

  Calvin Harris
  • Up
  • Down
  • Back

• In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Long
  • Women
  • Apple

• My great inspiration has always been Studs Terkel, who is a wonderful American oral historian. He was a radio DJ at first, interviewed a lot of jazz musicians, and at some point started to interview Americans about work.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Work
  • Inspiration
  • Musicians

• I'm actually a NASA brat. My father was a rocket scientist. He started working at NASA before it was NASA in 1959.

  

  Ellen Stofan
  • Father

• I felt for a long time that this is what I want to do so I'm happy at this point to just take my time and work on projects that I feel strongly about, and the rest of the time just live my life.

  

  Jennifer Connelly
  • Life
  • Time
  • Work

• I feel like I've set the bar fairly high, and I want to keep living up to that bar.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • Up
  • High
  • Want

• For example, Michael Jordan earns $100million a year but continues to play basketball and remains a modest human being.

  

  Franz Beckenbauer
  • Basketball

• Certainly the movies were always in the air for me. I come from the era when actors thought it was a big deal to be in the movies.

  

  Al Pacino
  • Air
  • Movies
  • Actors

• We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.

  

  William James
  • Past
  • Creatures
  • Imitator