William James Quotes

Need and struggle are what excite and inspire us; our hour of triumph is what brings the void.

William James

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• My father was an amateur filmmaker who shot 8mm color documentaries.

  

  Lasse Hallstrom
  • Father
  • Color
  • Filmmaker

• I think same sex couples should be able to get married.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Think
  • Sex
  • Same

• The utilization of flat roofs as 'grounds' offers us a means of re-acclimatizing nature amidst the stony deserts of our great towns; for the plots from which she has been evicted to make room for buildings can be given back to her up aloft.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Up
  • Great
  • She

• I'm very blessed with the perfect husband.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Perfect
  • Husband
  • Blessed

• I was in Vietnam, and I was exposed to Agent Orange. And there's a high relationship between people that were exposed to Agent Orange and the kind of lymphoma that I had. The prostate cancer was genetic in my family. My father had prostate cancer, my - three of my four uncles had prostate cancer.

  

  Hamilton Jordan
  • People
  • Family
  • High

• Misanthropy is born, I think, out of an almost oppressive sense of loneliness, a conviction that there's no one on earth who understands you. I don't think misanthropes hate people: They hate that people hate them.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • People
  • Earth
  • Hate

• I learned a long time ago that fame and money is not a ticket to happiness.

  

  M. Ward
  • Time
  • Long
  • Money

• When I went to lobby Nelson Mandela while the post-apartheid constitution was being drafted, I asked him to endorse making it illegal to discriminate on grounds of sexuality. I'd been warned that he might giggle if I mentioned homosexuality.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Constitution
  • Him
  • Sexuality

• My biggest asset is that I know how to learn, and that, I believe, will help me in the long run.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Believe
  • Long
  • Help

• There's nothing that can replace quality programs in a non-profit.

  

  Adam Braun
  • Quality
  • Nothing
  • Replace

• I have never, ever talked about my orientation or sexuality because whether I am heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual, asexual, it is my concern. I refuse to talk about it... I have not been brought up to talk about my sex life.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Life
  • Concern
  • Bisexual

• I'm in favor of any technology that makes my work available to the reading public at a reasonable price.

  

  Walter Jon Williams
  • Work
  • Reading
  • Technology

• Very ugly things were said about me.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Me
  • Said
  • Ugly

• It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Good
  • Power
  • Alone

• I did everything in my power to give my brokers brand identity and clout in the market. I saw my job as parent to build them up and if I took care of them, then they would take care of their customer.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Up
  • Job
  • Power

• We just compare our lifestyle to movies so you can relate to them. When I say, 'I bought a carpet from Aladdin so I could finesse and do magic,' that means I had to get me a new whip or I had to get me something in disguise to work my magic, to finesse, to get out of here.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Work
  • Me
  • Magic

• Smoke the pipe of peace, bury the tomahawk, and become one nation.

  

  Zebulon Pike
  • Peace
  • Become
  • Smoke

• I wish not merely to be called Christian, but also to be Christian.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Wish
  • Christian
  • I Wish

• You are not a problem that needs solving.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • You
  • Problem
  • Needs

• Too many Americans who struggle with mental health illnesses are suffering in silence rather than seeking help, and we need to see to it that men and women who would never hesitate to go see a doctor if they had a broken arm or came down with the flu, that they have that same attitude when it comes to their mental health.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Men
  • Women
  • Help

• I'm convinced that we can write and live our own scripts more than most people will acknowledge. I also know the price that must be paid. It's a real struggle to do it. It requires visualization and affirmation. It involves living a life of integrity, starting with making and keeping promises, until the whole human personality the senses, the thinking, the feeling, and the intuition are ultimately integrated and harmonized.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Writing
  • Real
  • Struggle

• Rebounding helps a lot with your ball skills, because you're able to go get the ball at a high point, which is what they want you to do in football.

  

  Calvin Pryor
  • Football
  • Helping
  • Able

• You can't act for the editing. You have to leave that to him. So you just go in and do the scene the way you think is right or whatever you're directed to do, and leave the rest of that technical stuff up to the director.

  

  Dennis Farina
  • Up
  • Rest

• Need and struggle are what excite and inspire us; our hour of triumph is what brings the void.

  

  William James
  • Struggle
  • Needs
  • Hours