William James Quotes
An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.
William James
Quotes to Explore
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Verily He answereth him who prayeth unto Him, and is near unto him who calleth on Him.
Baha'u'llah
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It's been so amazing. I've always struggled with this barrier that I felt like I'd had up until blogging came along. Just one comment from somebody really sparks something in me. It doesn't need to be this huge war between me and the listeners anymore. I really thrive on that.
Imogen Heap
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We need to bring sustainable energy to every corner of the globe with technologies like solar energy mini-grids, solar powered lights, and wind turbines.
Ban Ki-moon
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It's like everybody is shooting something, and everybody's a filmmaker; everybody can shoot a cat video and post it. So the big thing now is - for people that have talent and have something to say, and are creative, and are capable of making something good - is how do they get attention to it?
Dana Brunetti
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Yes, it's annoying that Hamlet doesn't kill his stepfather ten minutes into the play, but if he did kill his stepfather ten minutes into the play, there wouldn't be a play. He has to be annoying, if you will, and not do what would be the thing to do.
Dallas Roberts
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But now that I'm a blonde, guys are so blatant about coming on to me.
Laura Prepon
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In a democracy, power is not permanent.
Lalu Prasad Yadav
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The physical ego serves as its own worst enemy when, by delusive material behavior, it eclipses its true nature as the ever blessed soul.
Paramahansa Yogananda
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Most writers battle with periods of being blocked; it's almost an occupational hazard. But in the writing of his last and greatest novel, 'A Passage to India,' E. M. Forster got stuck for nine years.
Damon Galgut
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One must act in painting as in life, directly.
Pablo Picasso
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Dolomite is a whole mess of stuff, a mixture. It gets characterised as 'a stuff' because of the interest of oil geologists. It would have been a nonentity were it not for its applications.
Ian Hacking
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Music was in the air when I was growing up. My siblings Katy, Dave and Phil were musical; my dad worked in inner-city New York where a musical revolution was taking place - folk music, rock n' roll, gospel music. My sister taught me to sing. My brothers taught me to play.
Sam Barry
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Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.
Lao Tzu
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Relationships and trust. This is the bedrock of life.
Mukesh Ambani
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It is by attempting to reach the top at a single leap that so much misery is caused in the world.
William Cobbett
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The understanding which has driven New Labour's reform is to put the individual citizen - the patient, the parent, the pupil, the law abiding citizen - at the centre of each public service, with the service reformed to meet their individual requirements
Tony Blair
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I wouldn't describe myself as a do-gooder. That's really more my wife. I'm kind of just the obsessed guy who's been writing and making movies since I was a little kid, just in a room and make it.
M. Night Shyamalan
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An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.
William James
