William James Quotes
Of course, this has its good side as well as its bad one. As we become permanent drunkards by so may separate drinks, so we become saints in the moral, and authorities and experts in the practical and scientific spheres, by so many separate acts and hours of work. Let no youth have any anxiety about the upshot of his education, whatever the line of it may be. If he keep faithfully busy each hour of the working day, he may safely leave the final result to itself.
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He thinks that Schiller and St Paul were just two Partisan Review editors.
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Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do that.'
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On the day when I was shot, all of my friends' faces were covered, except mine.
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I think depression creates in me an urgent need to write, but I also believe that daily stress, and even the positive 'stress' of intense happiness, can compel me to express myself through the written word.
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I got no hate in me.
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You might not agree with me, but I always offer a lot of support.
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I didn't have a long-term plan or goal. If there would have been a road map showing me the way to my dreams becoming reality, I might have given it a second thought.
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On my best days, such as when I was a junior in high school coming off a 42-point performance and near triple-double, my dad was there to tell me I haven't arrived yet and bring me back to reality.
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Cinema gives you the opportunity to be both a grandparent and a grandchild whereas in life you cannot be both at the same time.
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Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.
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When I was younger I wanted to be a gymnast, but they have to be quite short - I was tall.
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Luckily, I was raised by people who'd already seen all the yuck stuff, which is why they originally didn't want me to act. I understood the difference between getting a part at a Hollywood party and getting a job.
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Every month that we do not have an economic recovery package 500 million Americans lose their jobs.
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There's an energy in an urban core that you just don't get anywhere else.
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The Passion narratives are the first pieces of the Gospels that were composed as a unity.
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Even the ears must dance.
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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.
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I have a lot of friends who do what I do. Either they're actresses or singers or things like that.
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I'd just love to see a great love story, and nobody makes them anymore. You have great actresses like Cate Blanchett - she's fabulous in Pushing Tin and Elizabeth - and you don't use them.
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One can not start by saying that our earthly destiny has or has not importance, for it depends upon us to give it importance.
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A lot of people still disregard something like yoga. I would have as a young player. I would have been too busy playing golf or something.
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I guess if I had to put it into a single phrase, the moral of the Frank stories is that the hammer never really falls.
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All are agreed that the various moral qualities are in a sense bestowed by nature: we are just, and capable of temperance, and brave, and possessed of the other virtues from the moment of our birth. But nevertheless we expect to find that true goodness is something different, and that the virtues in the true sense come to belong to us in another way. For even children and wild animals possess the natural dispositions, yet without Intelligence these may manifestly be harmful.
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Of course, this has its good side as well as its bad one. As we become permanent drunkards by so may separate drinks, so we become saints in the moral, and authorities and experts in the practical and scientific spheres, by so many separate acts and hours of work. Let no youth have any anxiety about the upshot of his education, whatever the line of it may be. If he keep faithfully busy each hour of the working day, he may safely leave the final result to itself.
