William James Quotes
We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can. . . . The more of the details of our daily life we can hand over to the effortless custody of automatism, the more our higher powers of mind will be set free for their own proper work.
William James
Quotes to Explore
No, and I never, ever eat in between the meals. I control it well enough and with no pills, and I sleep seven hours a night. I go to bed. I fall asleep, and I wake up seven hours later, and this is the most important.
Karl Lagerfeld
Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
J. B. Priestley
But as a young kid, I never did, really have an ambition to be a farmer. I never thought, gee, I would like to farm, and I want to raise these crops. I didn't quite know what I wanted to do.
Sam Donaldson
Sometimes I'm not even aware of some of the issues going on with me in my life until I sit down and start kind of looking for inspiration, trying to find something that inspires that creativity.
Sam Hunt
I get cast as a lot of sympathetic characters. I'd like to play someone really unpleasant.
Taron Egerton
I really do hope that the Millennium Summit gives new impetus to the work of the United Nations.
Harri Holkeri
The crisis of black politics can only be resolved through the development of multiclass, multiracial, progressive political structures.
Manning Marable
Before I write a novel, images float around in my head that work like icons - they are meaningless in themselves, but serve as reminders.
Jane Smiley
We have to have films about action and violence and special effects. That's the sad part, but you know what? It's not me doing it.
Pam Grier
Dreams are the expression of the unconscious while we are asleep.
Nancy Friday
The first long chapter of my career was almost entirely theater so that, by the time I was 30, 35, I sort of knew who I was as an actor, and I was gradually learning who I was as a human being.
John Lithgow
We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can. . . . The more of the details of our daily life we can hand over to the effortless custody of automatism, the more our higher powers of mind will be set free for their own proper work.
William James
