William James Quotes

We have grown literally afraid to be poor. We despise anyone who elects to be poor in order to simplify and save his inner life. If he does not join the general scramble and pant with the money-making street, we deem him spiritless and lacking in ambition

William James

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I'm from the South, and there's a different understanding of how to chop. There's a syllable play. It's a delicate art. Your accent has a lot to do with it. If you're from a certain area, words don't roll of your tongue as slick.

Yelawolf
- Different
- Art
- Words
When you start writing songs on your own, there's no Bible, there's no one around you, so you're just writing, and you're left with, like, the dead space in your head to know if it's a good song or an interesting concept.

Jack Antonoff Fun.
- Good
- Writing
- Song
Only twice have I really had a hard time leaving a character. The first was my character in 'Rome' and then in 'Homeland.'

Zuleikha Robinson
- Time
- Character
- Leaving
The perfection of art is to conceal art.

Quintilian
- Art
- Perfection
- Conceal
The chemotherapy was very peculiar, something that makes you feel much worse than the cancer itself, a very nasty thing. I used to go to treatment on my own, and nearly everybody else was with somebody. I wouldn't have liked that. Why would you want to make anybody sit in those places?

Maggie Smith
- Why
- Want
- Cancer
There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.

Edmund Phelps
- Invest
- Horizon
- Beyond