William James Quotes

Never suffer an exception to occur till the new habit is securely rooted in your life. Each lapse is like the letting fall of a ball of string which one is carefully winding up; a single slip undoes more than a great many turns will wind again.

William James

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• My boy and I move. We have this game where if we dress in a particular item of clothing, we have to do a different movement. A hat means 20 jumps - that sort of thing. When I put a scarf on, my son has to drop down and do push-ups, immediately. He thinks it's really funny.

  

  Magnus Scheving
  • Different
  • Game
  • Funny

• I try to give the appearance that I have it all together and that I know what I'm talking about, but at the end of the day, I think I might be full of crap.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Together
  • Day
  • End

• I just feel so flattered, because the cosplayers really make sure every detail is there. I don't think I've ever cosplayed a character before, but if I were to, I'd probably go as a Klingon from 'Star Trek.'

  

  Karen Gillan
  • Character
  • Think
  • Star

• I have got prostate cancer, and I have to keep monitoring that. It's no problem, it's under control and I'm very cool about it, but other people are dying from it.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • Control
  • Problem

• The mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American.

  

  Ida B. Wells
  • American
  • Spirit
  • Intelligence

• The fact is that since you're a divine creation who originated in the world of Spirit, you have exactly the right amount of smarts to accomplish all that you need and want to do while you're here on earth. It's all perfect... and so are you!

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • World
  • Want
  • Earth

• It's unacceptable to just sit on the couch and say I'm not doing anything. You've got to get out and do everything you can.

  

  Owen Hart
  • You
  • Doing
  • Say

• The whole issue is that everyone would love to do theater, but it doesn't pay enough, so to do music theater on TV, that's the ultimate dream.

  

  Taye Diggs
  • Music
  • Dream
  • Enough

• When I interview celebrities, I always try to throw them off balance. My favorite is to ask 'em about crazy sex stuff like donkey punches and Monroe transfers. Works every time.

  

  Rachel Perry
  • Time
  • Crazy
  • Sex

• The important thing is to be there, score when needed. It's better if the goals are beautiful, better still if they are important.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Important
  • Beautiful
  • Better

• I've never been on a television show as a regular before.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Never
  • Television
  • Before

• My grandparents don't really listen to pop music, and they only speak Spanish and only listen to Spanish music.

  

  Becky G
  • Music
  • Speak
  • Listen

• I went through a lot of phases and studied many religions. I am not into religion, I am spiritual.

  

  Ja Rule
  • Spiritual
  • Religion
  • Phases

• I think Bush understands the Internet and the incredible expansion of global e-commerce.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Think
  • Internet
  • E-Commerce

• I always tell women to use the fact that we offer a different point of view in a room full of men, to their advantage. Because we often stand out, we gain a unique platform to demonstrate our knowledge and capabilities.

  

  Padmasree Warrior
  • Men
  • Different
  • Women

• I hate the fact that people think 'compromise' is a dirty word.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • People
  • Think
  • Hate

• You'll see a lot more blood in 'Saw' movies or something like that than you will in either of the 'Last House' movies. I kind of think it owes more to 'The Virgin Spring' which is the original source material, the Bergman movie.

  

  Garret Dillahunt
  • Movie
  • Think
  • House

• A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Music
  • Peace
  • Artist

• While we somehow understand revenge on an intuitive level between individuals, I do suspect that companies, assuming that people are rational, completely miss and underestimate the motivation people have for revenge.

  

  Dan Ariely
  • People
  • motivation
  • Revenge

• Here I was, sitting with the boys of the first team in cognitive psychology, personality psychology, developmental psychology at Stanford and Harvard, and in the midst of this I felt here were men and women who, themselves were not highly evolved beings. Their own lives were not fulfilled.

  

  Ram Dass
  • Men
  • Women
  • Team

• Write the story, take out all the good lines, and see if it still works.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Writing
  • Stories
  • Stills

• Never suffer an exception to occur till the new habit is securely rooted in your life. Each lapse is like the letting fall of a ball of string which one is carefully winding up; a single slip undoes more than a great many turns will wind again.

  

  William James
  • Fall
  • Suffering
  • Habit