William James Quotes

... no bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.

William James

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• I tell my students based on my experiences in Hollywood, sure, you can always move to L.A. and try to work with the system, and people do that, but chances are if you want your story in film with characters of color, you will have to make that movie yourself. Find a way to make it yourself. Not just screenwriters, but also producers.

  

  Tananarive Due
  • People
  • Work
  • Movie

• I've learned the importance of loving what you do. I have also learned more patience due to the nature of the music business.

  

  Randy Travis
  • Music
  • Business
  • Nature

• In catering, you're always changing; the client is always dictating to you in terms of their wishes.

  

  Carla Hall
  • You
  • Wishes
  • Changing

• I had some great experiences, but there were times when films didn't do well right, especially after 'Vicky Donor.'

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Great
  • Right
  • Experiences

• There is no distinctly American criminal class - except Congress.

  

  Mark Twain
  • American

• All three of us just had our eye on what was happening around us, we were very observant to what people were doing in love situations, and what was happening in the world.

  

  Lamont Dozier
  • People
  • World
  • Eye

• People used to throw rocks at me for my clothes, now they wanna know where I buy them.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • People
  • Knows
  • Clothes

• I've never seen magazine covers and seen music videos and been like I need to look like that if I want to be a success. Never. I don't want to be some skinny mini with my tits out. I really don't want to do it. And I don't want people confusing what it is that I'm about.

  

  Adele
  • People
  • Music
  • Success

• You are the sunshine of my life That's why I'll always be around, You are the apple of my eye, Forever you'll stay in my heart

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Why

• It is very important that, no matter what happens, you keep your feeling of self worth and value.

  

  Vartan Gregorian
  • Important
  • Feeling
  • Value

• It is important to be still and listen and follow the Spirit.

  

  M. Russell Ballard
  • Important
  • Spirit
  • Follow

• The real beauty - inside, it comes from the heart, where love lives. If not, even the most common facial features can not hide the emptiness, which eventually pushes people.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • People
  • Real
  • Heart

• Free and open expression coupled with visionary leadership generally encourages good decision-making.

  

  M. Russell Ballard
  • Good
  • Free
  • Decision

• There’s nothing as glamorous to me as a record store.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles

• Pink is like the one color I say I hate, and yet somehow I end up wearing it. Like, Michael Kors sent me a pink dress, and I'm like: 'So beautiful!' And I'm wearing it telling him 'I hate pink, why am I wearing this? It's really nice though.'

  

  Kate Mara
  • Up
  • Why
  • Beautiful

• Music is like painting in sound. You take it into your inner heart and never lose it. It's eternally mysterious.

  

  Van Cliburn
  • Music
  • Heart
  • Painting

• Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Death
  • Fear
  • Certain

• My whole life at a certain point was studio, hotel, stage, hotel, stage, studio, stage, hotel, studio, stage. I was expressing everything from my past, everything that I had experienced prior to that studio stage time, and it was like you have to go back to the well, in order to give someone something to drink. I felt like a cistern, dried up and like there was nothing more. And it was so beautiful.

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• No matter what the challenge or adversity, my ironclad conviction is that God is always good, is always on his throne, is always working, always knows what he is doing, and that his love for me never stops.

  

  Carolyn Custis James
  • God
  • Challenge
  • Knows

• I think that's why I coach.. I used to get up early every morning with a clear goal in mind of how fast I was going to be. When I stopped rowing, there was a void in my daily routine. Now I go to bed at night and get up morning with a clear goal in mind of how fast you are going to be.

  

  Christopher Allsopp
  • Goal
  • Coach
  • Fast

• ... no bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.

  

  William James
  • Knows
  • Certain
  • Certainty