William James Quotes

The 'I think' which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the 'I breathe' which actually does accompany them.

William James

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• When you like something and you're pretty good at it and you can make a living doing it, you don't ask why. You just count your blessings and go with it.

  

  Harlan Coben
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• In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense.

  

  Sallust
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• When I first started, I thought I was wack. Lyrically, I thought I was wack. The thing I had over everybody was that I was the realest rapper.

  

  Fat Joe
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• Music is pretty intimate stuff and I can only work with very few people: Gonzalez being one, Mocky being another and, on a completely different level, Broken Social Scene. With Broken Social Scene it's not one-on-one, it's a one-on-12. It's very healthy, very comfortable, like a big pot luck supper among old friends.

  

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• My kids are the future of the Mayweather family and of the Mayweather brand. I feel our family is stronger if we stay together.

  

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• I was young and irresponsible, a silly woman laden with sin, not caring for anything except fame and fortune and self. But I have lived seeking truth in Jesus Christ and found it has made me free.

  

  Vanity
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• Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Always
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• I don't want to be liked. I want to be respected.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Want
  • Liked
  • Respected

• I started my career with 'Refugee' in Bhuj. Now, it has become a full-fledged city.

  

  Kareena Kapoor Khan
  • Career
  • City
  • Now

• When online business first appeared, a lot of operations would take your order and then disappear.

  

  Maelle Gavet
  • Business
  • First
  • Disappear

• A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason.

  

  J. P. Morgan
  • Good
  • Real
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• I think when you've got a passion for something, it comes out of you, and people can feel it. Then your mind is so geared towards that and how you can improve on it, and you're so excited about performing that it comes together.

  

  Becky Lynch
  • People
  • Mind
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• We are laying the foundations of a government, which we hope may outlast the Pyramids.

  

  Caleb Cushing
  • May
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• Being in love is the best thing in my life.

  

  Olivia Newton-John
  • Life
  • Love
  • Best

• I vividly remember Charles Bronson's face in 'Chino.' The western genre is screaming for a face like that.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Remember
  • Like
  • Face

• We begin with the common belief that Saddam Hussein is a tyrant and a threat to the peace and stability of the region. He has ignored the mandated of the United Nations and is building weapons of mass destruction and the means of delivering them.

  

  Carl Levin
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• The moment we realize that the only things we can intelligibly value are actual and potential changes in the experience of conscious beings, we can think about a landscape of such changes - where the peaks correspond to the greatest possible well-being and the valleys correspond to the lowest depths of suffering.

  

  Sam Harris
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• Even if you've gone easy on the vermouth, there are still serious downsides to alcohol consumption, including but not limited to the sense that you're a good dancer.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Good
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• I dinna think tis romantic when a man says he's willin' t' give his life fer the woman he loves. Give me instead a man who'd fight to keep us both alive and kickin'! There's naught rommantic about a dead man, beau or no.

  

  Karen Hawkins
  • Thinking
  • Giving
  • Fighting

• The number one metaphor I have in my mind for writing a screenplay is that...you're trying to climb a mountain blindfolded. And the funny thing about that is, you think, 'Okay, that's hard because you're climbing up a rock face, and you don't know where you're going, and you don't know where the top is, you can't see what's below you...' But actually the hardest part about climbing a mountain blindfolded is just finding the mountain.

  

  Michael Arndt
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Mind

• Being on tour sends me crazy, I drink too much and out comes the John Mcenroe in me.

  

  Chrissie Hynde Pretenders
  • Crazy
  • Too Much
  • Tour

• Once you've grown to accept something and it becomes part of the system you've inherited, you don't even notice it any longer.

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music

• The 'I think' which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the 'I breathe' which actually does accompany them.

  

  William James
  • Thinking
  • Able
  • Breathe