William James Quotes

The war-function has grasped us so far; but the constructive interests may some day seem no less imperative, and impose on the individual a hardly lighter burden.

William James

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• Individual
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• Prog didn't really go away. Just took a catnap in the late Seventies. A new generation of fans discovered it, and a whole new array of bands and solo artists took it on into the new millennium.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Fans
  • Generation
  • Late

• I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.

  

  Cameron Sinclair
  • Community
  • Build
  • Hats

• Young people, particularly in their teens and 20s, are not consuming sports the way my generation did. They are doing lots of things; they are multitasking. They are getting downloads; they are getting alerts on their computers or on their cellphones, and they are consuming sports in a more real-time but less full-time basis.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • People
  • Time
  • Real

• It gets very tiring when you are filming and then taken to a room to do school work. I never get any rest time. It is either work or school. Once you are an adult, you get to take a nap in between shots.

  

  Cameron Bright
  • Time
  • Work
  • School

• If you have multiples of anything, you have the possibility of repetition. Repetition creates pattern and also unity. Put anyone in a room with a pile of similar objects and say, 'I want a pattern by 3 P.M. or no dinner.' Anyone would come up with a design. It is easy, fun and available to anybody. Most people just don't have the nerve.

  

  Dan Phillips
  • People
  • Up
  • Fun

• It's just like heirloom tomatoes; this is heirloom music. We used to have all kinds of diversity in our poultry, in our vegetables, in our fruits, and slowly but surely the monoculture beast comes in. I'm saying that's not a good idea. And if it means that I gotta do it on my own, then I do it on my own.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Good
  • Music
  • Diversity

• That's all TV acting is. Like, let me find my mark and seem like I'm still acting. Sometimes they'll put sandbags there, but then it's even funnier because you're walking and you're, like, stepping into sandbags, so now you look like you're having a seizure.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Me
  • Acting
  • Walking

• Dead men tell no tales.

  

  Haniel Long
  • Men
  • Dead
  • Tell

• You know, my faith is one that admits some doubt.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Faith
  • Know
  • Doubt

• One day, I'll be listening to a bunch of Ray Charles, the next day it's nothing but Red Hot Chili Peppers. The next day it might be Tupac all day.

  

  J. Cole
  • Day
  • Listening
  • Red

• As the president of Afghanistan I look at the suffering of our people as a whole.

  

  Hamid Karzai
  • People
  • Suffering
  • Look

• I've learned to treat celebrities as equals and just kind of meet them and admire their work, but I definitely could not breathe when I met Johnny Depp and James Franco.

  

  Ireland Baldwin
  • Work
  • Kind
  • Breathe

• Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.

  

  Lara St. John
  • Notes
  • Pure
  • Anywhere

• Every guy should own one good pair of jeans.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Good
  • Guy
  • Jeans

• Nature doesn't need people - people need nature; nature would survive the extinction of the human being and go on just fine, but human culture, human beings, cannot survive without nature.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • People
  • Nature
  • Culture

• I can get a black eye, a bloody nose. I can have a bad day in the gym. At the end of the day, I don't have a bad payday, and I don't have a bad night under the lights... I get bumps, bruises... but I don't have a bad night.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Bad
  • Night
  • Black

• I draw every day - unless I'm being interviewed.

  

  Quentin Blake
  • Day
  • Everyday
  • Being

• You should always go to other people's funerals; otherwise, they won't come to yours.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • People
  • You
  • Always

• See the good in people and help them.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • People
  • Good
  • Help

• I loathe all this blind rushing pell-mell into a struggle arranged by the mighty minority and paid for with the lives of young men who are drugged on trumped-up ideals.

  

  Fannie Hurst
  • Up
  • Men
  • War

• We've been in the mountain of war. We've been in the mountain of violence. We've been in the mountain of hatred long enough. It is necessary to move on now, but only by moving out of this mountain can we move to the promised land of justice and brotherhood and the Kingdom of God. It all boils down to the fact that we must never allow ourselves to become satisfied with unattained goals. We must always maintain a kind of divine discontent.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • War
  • Moving
  • Violence

• In my experience, each failure contains the seeds of your next success-if you are willing to learn from it.

  

  Paul Allen
  • Experience
  • Success
  • Failure

• We did not have a television while I was growing up, and so I read voraciously. My earliest memory of being utterly transfixed by a book was Madeleine L'Engle's 'A Wrinkle in Time.'

  

  Dan Brown
  • Up
  • Time
  • Book

• The war-function has grasped us so far; but the constructive interests may some day seem no less imperative, and impose on the individual a hardly lighter burden.

  

  William James
  • War
  • Interest
  • Individual