William James Quotes

So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end...and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.

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• No matter how much money I make, no matter how many hit songs. I still perform like a street performer.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Money
  • Matter
  • Street

• Sadly, for some mothers, this experience can be made so much harder due to challenges with our very mental health.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Experience
  • Health

• I don't need fame and I don't need power and I don't need wealth. I'm in need of friends, which I have found in abundance.

  

  Utah Phillips
  • Power
  • Friends
  • Fame

• I try to widen the horizons of every child I meet, and part of that is promoting diverse forms, be it graphic novels, stories told in a narrative voice, or more translated books, as well as more diverse writers and more diverse characters.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Child
  • Voice
  • Try

• Stay calm and aggressive.

  

  Gabrielle Reece
  • Calm
  • Stay
  • Aggressive

• I think cricket is there in Usain Bolt's blood. Since I got to watch from close quarters, it was amazing to see him run up to bowl. The perfect delivery stride is understandable because he is a world champion athlete. But the manner - he loaded at the crease and then bowled the ball - left me zapped. He looked like a natural cricketer.

  

  Harbhajan Singh
  • Up
  • World
  • Perfect

• I was fortunate to have a grandfather who was an optometrist. Vision therapy was something that we routinely did to strengthen our eyes and give us better focus. I was fortunate that he could teach me techniques that are still paying dividends for me to this day.

  

  Larry Fitzgerald
  • Eyes
  • Day
  • Focus

• The Holocaust movie is almost a genre in itself these days.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Movie
  • Days
  • Holocaust

• When all is said and done the only thing you'll have left is your character.

  

  Vince Gill
  • Done
  • Character
  • Said

• You have to let it all hang out, let go of the ideas that were more comfortable and embrace some of the sadness in your life.

  

  Madeleine Peyroux
  • Life
  • Sad
  • Sadness

• Maybe I'll write an episode of 'Black-ish' about a guy being fired in late-night.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Guy
  • Night
  • Black

• I have been lucky enough to travel a lot, meet great people in many lands. I have liked almost everyone I met along the way.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • People
  • Great
  • Travel

• That thing, 'You must stay together for the kids', is out of fashion but is right. It's not arguing parents that children don't like, it is having one parent.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • Children
  • Kids
  • Together

• You've been entrusted with a lot of money and a lot of careers, and a lot of people put their faith in me, and every director goes through that every time.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • People
  • Time
  • Money

• I have to believe that people can change, otherwise I deny the Gospel, and I will not do that.

  

  Randall Terry
  • People
  • Believe
  • Change

• Saving our planet, lifting people out of poverty, advancing economic growth... these are one and the same fight. We must connect the dots between climate change, water scarcity, energy shortages, global health, food security and women's empowerment. Solutions to one problem must be solutions for all.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • People
  • Women
  • Energy

• Unfathomable mind, now beacon, now sea.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Mind
  • Sea

• I don't want to see Bowie in a tracksuit. He never let anyone see him that way. The outlet for my work is not just the music and the videos, it's every breathing moment of my life. I'm always saying something about art and music and fame. That's why you don't ever catch me in sweatpants.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Life
  • Work
  • Music

• Honestly, Im living my fantasy. Its being with my family, preferably on a snowy afternoon with a fire going, cuddled up in blankets, playing a game.

  

  Meredith Vieira
  • Family
  • Games
  • Fantasy

• I'm not into makeup or dresses or typically girly things. But to me, those things don't really define what it is to be a female artist in this industry any more. It's being brave and courageous and true to yourself.

  

  Tones and I
  • Artist
  • Makeup
  • Brave

• My friends in the TV news business are in a state of despair about Donald Trump, even as their bosses in the boardroom are giddy over what he's doing for their once sagging ratings.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Business
  • Friends
  • Doing

• To keep the record straight, it wasn't always John and Yoko. We've all accused one another of various business things; we tend to be pretty paranoid by now, as you can imagine. There's a lot of money involved.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Money
  • Business
  • Pretty

• So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end...and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.

  

  William James
  • Brave
  • Ends
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