William James Quotes
Ninety-nine hundredths or, possibly, nine hundred and ninety-nine thousandths of our activity is purely automatic and habitual, from our rising in the morning to our lying down each night.William James
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I do try to structure everything in a way that's very much like a pop song. I try to keep the arrangements really simple, just to make everything essential.
Washed Out -
For those who love, nothing is too difficult, especially when it is done for the love of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Saint Ignatius -
I watch Jay. I watch 'Letterman'. I flip back and forth between 'Conan' and 'Letterman', especially the top of the show for those guys.
Wanda Sykes -
Helping out in your kid's classroom is a great way to get involved with your child's school.
Tamra Davis -
If there's a trait for not sleeping, I probably have it.
Pardis Sabeti -
To be with old friends is very warming and comforting.
Ian Ziering
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I choose projects that resonate with me on some personal level and projects that I'm afraid to do. If I'm afraid to do them, then I usually say yes, because it means that I'm not ready to go there and deal with certain aspects of the script. And that means that I need to do it, because the things that scare you only make you better and stronger.
Octavia Spencer -
The two sensibilities, the visual and the verbal, have always been linked for me - in fact, while reading a particularly evocative passage, I will imagine what the photograph I'd take of that scene would look like, even with burning and dodging notes. Maybe everyone does this.
Sally Mann -
Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
Rainer Maria Rilke -
On stage, you can use your emotions. It's the place where you can channel them. They have a purpose.
Florence Welch Florence and the Machine -
Meditation is difficult for many people because their thoughts are always on some distant object or place. One form of meditation is to label the thought as it appears and then choose to let it go.
Wayne Dyer -
I had written lyrics to a song called The Silent Extreme, which Alex later renamed Humans Being.
Sammy Hagar Van Halen
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Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Jack Benny -
A house divided against itself cannot stand.
Abraham Lincoln -
We have lost a lot of ground to the extremists in the Middle East.
Najib Razak -
A lot of American playwrights seem to have a career as a playwright. I don't consider it a career at all.
Sam Shepard -
Music is something I can't stop. Whether people are going to hear it or not, I'm still going to make music.
Oliver Sim The xx -
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
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The goal for me is always to have the opportunity to work in different genres. This is a great and exciting time in my career, where I can have the opportunity to work in different genres, and also I recognize there's not a lot of actors who have that opportunity and I'm grateful for it.
Dwayne Johnson -
Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.
Ramsey Clark -
Habit is the deepest law of human nature.
Thomas Carlyle -
If I gaze at my beloved she may feel embarrassed and if I do not, she will feel neglected. I can see the stars reflecting in the calm water of her face but if I look away I lose my clarity.
Rumi -
Ninety-nine hundredths or, possibly, nine hundred and ninety-nine thousandths of our activity is purely automatic and habitual, from our rising in the morning to our lying down each night.
William James