William James Quotes

A good hypothesis in science must have other properties than those of the phenomenon it is immediately invoked to explain, otherwise it is not prolific enough.

William James

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• I realised that the political context had got worse since the 2010 World Cup. I tried to ignore it but I wanted, as a national coach - you may call this Utopia - to make Catalans and Basques feel good about supporting a Spanish side... to unite even the most sectarian and nationalist.

  

  Vicente del Bosque
  • World
  • Good
  • May

• The main reason I wanted to be successful was to get out of the ghetto. My parents helped direct my path.

  

  Florence Griffith Joyner
  • Parents
  • Path
  • Successful

• Irony is a clear consciousness of an eternal agility, of the infinitely abundant chaos.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Chaos
  • Consciousness
  • Irony

• My earliest books focus almost entirely on psychological tools to help readers employ effective commonsense approaches to problems. There are no references to God or a higher self in the first 15 or so years of my publishing history.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • God
  • History
  • Help

• I was a huge ham in school in Atlanta.

  

  Hannah Storm
  • School
  • Huge
  • Atlanta

• The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately... you usually don't use it at all. It uses you.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Mind
  • You
  • More

• Even though I have Twitter, I only use it to say, 'Oh, this is coming out.' I would never voice anything about me, really.

  

  Faye Marsay
  • Me
  • Never
  • Voice

• Houston is kind of a melting pot. There are many different cultures and ethnicities represented out there, even on my team. It's really cool: you'll see so many different things.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Different
  • Team
  • Kind

• Unrequited affection is very painful for the lover, but it can have unexpected, creative consequences.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Creative
  • Consequences

• There is a supply for every demand.

  

  Florence Scovel Shinn
  • Demand
  • Every
  • Supply

• I don't want to become known as just a body.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Want
  • Body
  • Just

• Feeling tired should almost never be an excuse, because your body has huge reserves of energy. But if you eat badly, stay out late, drink too much, and so on, you'll pay a price on the course.

  

  Hale Irwin
  • Feeling
  • Energy
  • Body

• I've never been in a relationship before. I've only been in unrequited relationships where people haven't loved me back. I guess I'm a little bit attracted to that in a bad way.

  

  Sam Smith
  • People
  • Bad
  • Me

• Florence is charming, cozy, beautiful, inspiring - it has so many great places to go to and so many unique things to see that you won't find anywhere else!

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • Great
  • Beautiful
  • Unique

• Everybody was in struggle, in the grind trying to make it.

  

  Young Buck
  • Trying
  • Struggle
  • Grind

• I write about myself with the same pencil and in the same exercise book as about him. It is no longer I, but another whose life is just beginning.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Life
  • Book
  • Myself

• My music is based on melody and when I play the piano, it's as if I'm singing with them. When you try to transform that into a vocal, there was very little adjustment.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Music
  • Play
  • Singing

• Imperialist enterprise draws political consequences.

  

  C. L. R. James
  • Political
  • Consequences

• All stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you. Especially do all stories of monogamy end in death, and your man who is monogamous while he often lives most happily, dies in the most lonely fashion.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Men
  • Fashion
  • Enough

• It seemed a marvel to her that any mortal should suffer for lack of love, and yet she had never known a mortal who didn't feel unloved. There was enough love just in this ugly hallway, she thought, that no one should ever feel the lack of it again. She peered at the parents, imagining their hearts like machines, manufacturing surfeit upon surfeit of love for their children, and then wondered how something could be so awesome and so utterly powerless.

  

  Chris Adrian
  • Children
  • Heart
  • Suffering

• Our freedom must be had at all hazards. If the men of property will not help us they must fall; we will free ourselves by the aid of that large and respectable class of the community - the men of no property.

  

  Wolfe Tone
  • Community
  • Helping
  • Republican

• The time is out of joint : O cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right!

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Time
  • Born
  • Spite

• A good hypothesis in science must have other properties than those of the phenomenon it is immediately invoked to explain, otherwise it is not prolific enough.

  

  William James
  • Enough
  • Property
  • Phenomenon