William James Quotes

My thinking is first and last and always for the sake of my doing, and I can only do one thing at a time.

William James

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• My father was the proprietor of a music shop on Forty-third Street, where many of the finest performers and musicians of the day would come to shop. He knew the classical repertoire inside out.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Music
  • Father
  • Day

• I will never support any tax increase on middle-income earners, ever... If you're not going to eliminate loopholes and exemptions, then I wouldn't support lowering rates.

  

  Adam Hasner
  • You
  • Support
  • Tax

• The main essentials of a successful prime minister are sleep and a sense of history.

  

  Harold Wilson
  • History
  • Sleep
  • Successful

• Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • inspirational
  • Start
  • Over

• What man is there, surrounded though he be with the love of wife and children, who does not retain a memory of the romantic affection of boys for each other? Having felt it, he could scarcely have forgotten it, and if he never felt it, he missed one of the most golden of the prizes of youth, unrecapturable in mature life.

  

  E. F. Benson
  • Life
  • Man
  • Romantic

• Since first starting my career, I've grown accustomed to working with actors older than me. I'm always the youngest.

  

  Gaspard Ulliel
  • Career
  • Me
  • Always

• Bears are very nice, as long as you are nice to them.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Long
  • You
  • Nice

• You always gotta be on time, an hour ahead of everything. You always gotta be prepared.

  

  Beanie Sigel
  • Time
  • You
  • Be Prepared

• Shinsuke Nakamura is probably one of the best wrestlers I've ever been in the ring with. He's very unorthodox. Everything he does is with knockout power. He's a guy who is very flamboyant, so don't let his Michael Jackson antics fool you. This guy is deadly.

  

  A.J. Styles
  • Power
  • Guy
  • Best

• Detroit is beautiful - though you probably have to be a child of the industrial Midwest, like me, to see it.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Beautiful
  • Me
  • Child

• Whatever you build, you're building for the family - not with an eye toward getting away, but with an eye toward adding to the family pie.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Family
  • Eye
  • Building

• We all have our likes and our dislikes. But... when we're doing news - when we're doing the front-page news, not the back page, not the op-ed pages, but when we're doing the daily news, covering politics - it is our duty to be sure that we do not permit our prejudices to show. That is simply basic journalism.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Politics
  • Daily
  • Journalism

• My goal from being a child was to have a happy home life.

  

  S. E. Hinton
  • Life
  • Home
  • Happy

• The hypothesis of surviving intelligence and personality - not only surviving but anxious and able with difficulty to communicate - is the simplest and most straightforward and the only one that fits all the facts.

  

  Oliver Joseph Lodge
  • Personality
  • Intelligence

• The future is never written...only penciled in.

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Future

• What we must learn to do is to create unbreakable bonds between the sciences and the humanities. We cannot procrastinate. The world of the future is in our making. Tomorrow is now.

  

  Eleanor Roosevelt
  • World
  • Future

• For the moment the peril was nowhere and yet everywhere. The majority remained solid; but the leaders became stiff and exacting.

  

  Anatole France

• And as I stumbled onto Eastern philosophy and Buddhism, it was the first time I had ever read any sort of philosophy that really made a tremendous amount of sense. What I liked that was missing from my experience of Christianity growing up was a sort of acceptance, a sort of being OK with being imperfect and not focusing on the sin.

  

  Alan Ball
  • Up
  • Time
  • Experience

• Johnny was great in the studio; he was there to make the music that he wanted to make. We lived right beside each other and had a rehearsal studio that was just ours, with nobody else using it, it was part of Johnny's house, so we could rehearse every day.

  

  Rick Derringer
  • Music
  • House
  • Nobody

• I doubt that art needed Ruskin any more than a moving train needs one of its passengers to shove it.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Art
  • Moving
  • Doubt

• Dwelling on an engine failure for a pilot as he rolls down the runway is NOT what he should be thinking about - it's obtaining a smooth liftoff! But in the back of his mind, he knows exactly what to do (or pretty much) and in many cases, if he's alone in the fighter aircraft, he has to leave that aircraft in an ejection seat in a big hurry!

  

  Buzz Aldrin
  • Thinking
  • Mind
  • Pretty

• My thinking is first and last and always for the sake of my doing, and I can only do one thing at a time.

  

  William James
  • Thinking
  • Firsts
  • Lasts