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

• Men's wishes are not always vain, nor is every life too brief to satisfy its possessor. Only when we attempt, from the point of view permitted by physics and biology, to sum up the possibilities of collective human endeavour, do we fully realise the 'vanity of vanities' proclaimed by the Preacher.

  

  Arthur Balfour
  • Life
  • Up
  • Men

• If a crowd can flinch, they flinch. More than a thousand men flinch under the fist of just one. I don't see what the women do.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Men
  • Women
  • See

• When making choices, or setting policies about the economy, education or medicine, society is best served by electing people who are particularly hardworking, intelligent and interested in long-term thinking.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Society
  • Education
  • Choices

• I knew what I was doing, always! I just couldn't stop.

  

  Padraig Harrington
  • Stop

• 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