William James Quotes
An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.
William James
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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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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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A Lawyer will do anything to win a case, sometimes he will even tell the truth.
Patrick Murray
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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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Estimates of the ionic mobilities vary over a considerable range; but in any event, the positive ionic defect is much more mobile in the solid than in the liquid, and its mobility varies very little with the temperature.
Lars Onsager
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I didn't know that I could do a talk show. I didn't know that we could bring variety to daytime. I didn't know that people wanted to see singing, and dancing and comedy in the morning.
Wayne Brady
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I spend a hell of a lot of time killing animals and fish so I wouldn't kill myself. When a man is in rebellion against death, as I am in rebellion against death, he gets pleasure out of taking to himself one of the godlike attributes; that of giving it.
Ernest Hemingway
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So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.
William Shakespeare
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Don't ever promise more than you can deliver, but always deliver more than you promise.
Lou Holtz
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The most important thing in illness is never to lose heart.
Vladimir Lenin
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No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.
William Penn
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An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.
William James