William James Quotes

It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.

William James

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• Virtually everything that gets printed about me is wrong anyway, so it doesn't really matter what you say.

  

  Zara Phillips
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• Although I have no plans to tweet, I am fascinated by developments on the Internet.

  

  Oscar de la Renta
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  • Tweet
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• For about 175,000 people, Chiranjeevi Blood Bank has supplied blood for free in times of emergency. This is because of the service-oriented attitude of Mega fans.

  

  Ram Charan
  • People
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• The trade magazine and all was banned in my house. The first time I read a film magazine was when I was 18.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • Time
  • House
  • Film

• I've never dreamed of a story idea. I have such boring dreams.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • Never
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• Whatever our bedtime was as kids, we could stay up an extra half hour if we were reading. My parents didn't care as long as I was under the spell of a Stephen King or a Douglas Adams. Now I read in bed. I read at work. I read standing in line. It's like, 'Hello, my name is Nathan and I am a reader.'

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Up
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  • Long

• My great hope would be that Quebec would realize itself fully as a distinct part of Canada, and stay Canadian, bringing to Canada a part of its richness.

  

  Gabrielle Roy
  • Great
  • Hope
  • Realize

• I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.

  

  Kate Walsh
  • Like
  • Take
  • Sensitive

• It is faith that drives us to build, a belief that we cannot be limited by lack of nerve or airspace.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Faith
  • Belief
  • Build

• Of course, I also hear from critics who detest what I do, and while sometimes I feel rather proud of having made various the loathsome people or groups angry, at other times I wonder why I put up with such grief.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • People
  • Up
  • Why

• Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

  

  Jack Benny
  • Mind
  • Age
  • Matter

• Most important thought, if you love someone, tell him or her, for you never know what tomorrow may have in store.

  

  Walter Payton
  • Important
  • Know
  • Thought

• I don't know how I got involved in 'Celebrity Wife Swap.' It came from my agent Hugh. He got the opportunity for me.

  

  Gary Busey
  • Opportunity
  • Wife
  • Celebrity

• I've always been very tied to language.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Language
  • Very
  • Been

• I would love to spend a year living in New York; I've wanted to do that since I was 18. I'll be really disappointed if I'm 50 and haven't done something like that.

  

  Daniel Bruhl
  • Like
  • Living
  • Disappointed

• To add an AC outlet, for example, you just drill a circular hole in the wall, tap into the wiring, add the outlet and you're set. If you don't want it, pull it out and plaster over it with more earth to seal the hole.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Want
  • Earth
  • Wall

• The opening lines of a book are so important. You really need to somehow charm your reader. If you can't get her attention in the first pages, you may have lost her. There has to be an ambience.

  

  Tatiana de Rosnay
  • Important
  • May
  • Book

• Be incredibly, ruthlessly selfish with your equity.

  

  Douglas Leone
  • Selfish

• Get rid of those friends of yours who make fun of you and don't believe in you. And when you leave here tonight, go home, make a phone call and fire them. Anyone that doesn't believe in you and your future, to hell with them.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Home
  • Fun
  • Future

• In this life, we have to make many choices. Some are very important choices. Some are not. Many of our choices are between good and evil. The choices we make, however, determine to a large extent our happiness or our unhappiness, because we have to live with the consequences of our choices.

  

  James E. Faust
  • Life
  • Good
  • Important

• But the important thing is to lie down and fall asleep. That little nap means you wake up fresh again and can continue.

  

  James Levine
  • Up
  • Important
  • Fall

• Fanatics, as a class, have far more zeal than intellect and are fanatics only because they have. There can be no fanaticism but where there is more passion than reason; and hence, in the nature of things, movements originating in it run down in a short time by their folly and extravagance.

  

  John C. Calhoun
  • Time
  • Nature
  • Passion

• It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.

  

  William James
  • Important
  • Teacher
  • Habit