William James Quotes

Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.

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• I would like all French children to have unlimited opportunities opened up for them as French minister of education.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • Up
  • Children
  • Education

• I reach my readers regardless of what the critics have written.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Critics
  • Reach
  • Regardless

• I am sure that the party system is right and necessary. There must be some scum.

  

  A. P. Herbert
  • Party
  • Right
  • System

• My basic feeling about military intervention is that it should be a last resort, undertaken only to stave off large-scale bloodshed.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Feeling
  • Military
  • Last

• I don't even know how to define myself. I'm a person who writes. It's something I enjoy, and hopefully people enjoy it as well.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • People
  • Myself
  • Enjoy

• The greatest risk is really to take no risk at all. You've got to go out there, jump off the cliff, and take chances.

  

  Patrick Warburton
  • Risk
  • Jump
  • Greatest

• We all have our strengths and our failings.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • Our
  • Strengths
  • Failings

• In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Truth
  • Politics
  • Argument

• Here, class attendance is expected and students are required to take notes, which they are tested on. What is missing, it seems to me, is the use of knowledge, the practical training.

  

  Harrison Salisbury
  • Knowledge
  • Me
  • Training

• As we continue to step up our investment in education, we must not sidestep our commitment to the principle of local control.

  

  Gary Herbert
  • Up
  • Education
  • Control

• All diseases run into one, old age.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Age
  • Run
  • Old Age

• In tight quarters, it's important to choose small-scale items.

  

  Candice Olson
  • Important
  • Small
  • Choose

• I have a terrible fear of travel. Just before we go, I start to panic and tell my wife I don't want to go. It's ridiculous. But actually it's only when it's somewhere I've not been to before.

  

  Gary Kemp Spandau Ballet
  • Fear
  • Wife
  • Travel

• I support gay unions. I think the government should get out of the marriage business completely - leave marriages to the churches. And grant civil unions to gay couples, grant civil unions to a man and woman.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Business
  • Man
  • Support

• I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.

  

  Yusef Komunyakaa
  • Hope
  • Black
  • See

• Zach Galifianakis is hilarious. I worked with him on a pilot before; he's hilarious and such a nice person.

  

  Zachary Gordon
  • Nice
  • Him
  • Hilarious

• I take a lot of pictures.

  

  Damian Loeb
  • Take
  • Pictures
  • Lot

• The guys in Kiss use some make up too so at first it was exiting. I've almost stopped using make-up nowadays.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • Up
  • First
  • Kiss

• I hold no dream of fortune vast,Nor seek undying fame.I do not ask when life is pastThat many know my name.I may not own the skill to riseTo glory's topmost height,Nor win a place among the wise,But I can keep the right.And I can live my life on earthContented to the end,If but a few shall know my worthAnd proudly call me friend.

  

  Edgar Guest
  • Life
  • Live
  • May

• When things seem to be slowing down, there's this little trick I like to play. I'd plow this virgin who's on her period, and after I'm done I'd just run out into the living room, or the dance floor, with all that bloody goop on my junk and yell, OH MY GOD, I'VE BEEN SHOT IN THE NADS! Yeah, good times.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Good
  • God
  • Done

• I stay true to myself and my style, and I am always pushing myself to be aware of that and be original.

  

  Aaliyah
  • Style
  • Pushing
  • Original

• Offset and Skillfeed are examples of products launched in 2013 that have expanded our opportunity with both large enterprises and across new content types.

  

  Jon Oringer
  • Opportunity

• 'All the same,' said the Scarecrow, 'I shall ask for brains instead of a heart; for a fool would not know what to do with a heart if he had one.' 'I shall take the heart,' returned the Tin Woodman; 'for brains do not make one happy, and happiness is the best thing in the world.'

  

  L. Frank Baum
  • World
  • Heart
  • Happy

• Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.

  

  William James
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