William James Quotes

What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise although the philosophers generally call it recognition!

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• Unfortunately, there is still much to mine in this world and explore creatively.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • World
  • Explore
  • Still

• Acting is exciting. It is different every time you do it.

  

  Adam Lamberg
  • Time
  • Different
  • You

• The ironic thing is I took Kole from a family name - we had a vote and they had a few names, but Kole won - and getting it spelled with a 'K' is a constant correction, too. I'll never not be Warren Blosjo; it's just my stage name.

  

  Warren Kole
  • Family
  • Name
  • Vote

• Life is a canvas of many strokes where shades from different palettes meet into a picture so concrete that some forget it is their own, so become framed themselves.

  

  Vanna Bonta
  • Life
  • Different
  • Picture

• I like buying iTunes. It's instant.

  

  Caitlin Rose
  • Like
  • Buying
  • Instant

• I've fondly dreamed of becoming the face of an important brand since I was a child, in the same way that others dream of becoming an astronaut. I dreamed of this as I first and foremost dreamed of becoming an actor and would look up at these huge posters of celebrities while driving along motorways or crossing under bridges.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Up
  • Important
  • Dream

• Chaotic people often have chaotic lives, and I think they create that. But if you try and have an inner peace and a positive attitude, I think you attract that.

  

  Imelda Staunton
  • People
  • Peace
  • Positive

• I think any time you bring those guys in, one with a lot of playoff experience, with rings - those guys won - guys in the locker room gravitate towards those guys. Those guys have been there, so there's a lot that they can teach the guys.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Time
  • Experience
  • Think

• I grew up in a suburb of Ohio, in a small town, and I resonated with that small-town feeling where everybody knows your business.

  

  Rachael Harris
  • Up
  • Business
  • Feeling

• The distinctions between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers, and New Englanders are no more. I am not a Virginian but an American.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • American
  • Distinctions
  • New Yorkers

• Keep in mind that no matter how perfectly you get your life in order, you will never be rid of all your problems. Problems are a way of life, always have been, always will be. But how you elect to view those problems is all up to you.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Life
  • Up
  • Mind

• Fortunately, I don't spend too much time reading or worrying about what people have to say, but the goal for me throughout this whole process - throughout my whole life - is to try to be happy.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time.

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
  • Time
  • Good
  • Bad

• I'm not really clear what the whole deal is with flags. I like my flag, but I wouldn't die for it. There's issues of identity, of course. That's going to always come in. I, for example, don't want to be called a 'North Britisher.' I want to be Scottish.

  

  Eddi Reader
  • Want
  • Die
  • Identity

• Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.

  

  M. Esther Harding
  • Beginning
  • Conflict

• I am always attracted to the moments when a person who is associated with a certain message, image or sensibility evolves. I am very interested in how audiences respond to that maturation and absorb the evolution.

  

  Raf Simons
  • Moments
  • Evolution
  • Image

• The dilemma for early 21st century journalism is this: Who will pay for the news?

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • News
  • Journalism
  • Early

• I want money; I just don't want that money lying around.

  

  Nathan Kirsh
  • Money
  • Want
  • Lying

• The only way I was going to be funny was if I was myself, and either you liked it, or you didn't. Either you got on my train, or you didn't. Freeing myself of this idea that I had to fit a certain mold was when I was able to be my funniest.

  

  Aisha Tyler
  • Funny

• A man who tries to surpass another may perhaps succeed in equaling inot actually surpassing him, but one who merely follows can never quite come up with him: a follower, necessarily, is always behind.

  

  Quintilian
  • Up
  • Men
  • Trying

• The Founders believed, and the Conservative agrees, in the dignity of the individual; that we, as human beings, have a right to live, live freely, and pursue that which motivates us not because man or some government says so, but because these are God-given natural rights.

  

  Mark Levin
  • God
  • Men
  • Live

• Sleeping is forbidden at the age of 22. It's all work and no play.

  

  Usher
  • Work
  • Age
  • Play

• What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise although the philosophers generally call it recognition!

  

  William James
  • Men
  • Praise
  • Recognition