William James Quotes
But it is the bane of psychology to suppose that where results are similar, processes must be the same. Psychologists are too apt to reason as geometers would, if the latter were to say that the diameter of a circle is the same thing as its semi-circumference, because, forsooth, they terminate in the same two points.
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I've always thought that I'd make a pretty good police officer, except maybe for the danger part. I have a rare medical condition that makes it difficult for me to risk getting shot, so probably I'd have to be one of those officers who work in 'do not shoot' areas.
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Every audition I get, I agonise over and I put everything I can into it.
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I have a great support network - my family, my model agency Storm, and people I work with in the fashion industry. And, of course, there are all my followers on Twitter who stop me from feeling lonely; I love them all. They keep me grounded.
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Cryptocurrencies in general give us a stable medium through which we can communicate our information about values and prices in a way that no government mandarin can distort or usurp. For the predators who have used our central institutions to predate on the rest of humanity, it's a very bad development.
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Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material.
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The gruesomeness of 'Death Line' was an absolute necessity for me to bring up the political content of the film. I wanted to show how devastating class distinction could be.
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I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
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We must not stop speaking the truth to the radical parties because voters will follow those who speak the truth, and European politics will grow more radical, which is in nobody's interest.
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I was the kind of child who worked hard every day with the cows and sheep - I was a very aggressive boy.
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I had a lot of alone time with no brothers or sisters running around, or anything. I would just sit and imagine things, all the time.
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With 'The Simpsons,' people didn't know what they were gonna see. They didn't have a clue.
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For some people, miracles serve as evidence of God's existence.
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I've become the hunted. I'm enjoying that. It's better to be the hunted than the hunter.
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Good God, if our civilization were to sober up for a couple of days it'd die of remorse on the third.
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The greatly anticipated 2009 Masters was like going to a Broadway hit and finding out that the star, Sir Tiger Woods, was off that night, and his replacement was the cab driver who dropped you off at the theater.
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We watch so much film, calling up pitch by pitch, count by count in order to spot tendencies. Technology is a big part of how I get ready for a game. What's funny is a lot of the NFL guys say they study the 'Madden' game; that's how they learn to read offenses and defenses.
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When I was in university, my dream was to be a coach, like a high school track coach. Not to teach.
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My hope is that countries like Morocco will have investment to create work, so people don't have to leave.
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It's just a goatee. That sounds kind of weird. A soul patch? I don't know how 'soul' it is.
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Our goals should serve as markers, measurements of the progress we make in pursuit of something greater than ourselves.
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The ethos of most films is that you make a film, you exploit the community, you exploit the environment, and it's OK because you made a great film, you know?
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Beginners focus on analysis, but professionals operate in a three dimensional space. They are aware of trading psychology their own feelings and the mass psychology of the markets.
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...sometimes I get tired. Sometimes I get bored. And sometimes all I want, more than anything else in the world, is to go on a freaking date.
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But it is the bane of psychology to suppose that where results are similar, processes must be the same. Psychologists are too apt to reason as geometers would, if the latter were to say that the diameter of a circle is the same thing as its semi-circumference, because, forsooth, they terminate in the same two points.
