William James Quotes
You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
Quotes to Explore
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What we do for a living does not matter so much as how we do it. It is the spirit in which we do our work that counts, and that counts through all eternity.
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Like, radio is closer to a Tumblr, or a blog, or Twitter, than it is to television, I think.
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I feel that everyone has a right to be insane.
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And it seems to me in that experience may lie at least some of the clues for policy development perhaps constitutional changes as well that Labour will need to make at the national level too.
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I'd like to show people that if you put the hard work in and you believe in yourself, then you can do whatever you want to.
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I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn't going to stay with it. It was because I had this one professor who was the loneliest, saddest man I've ever known. He was a programmer, and I knew that I didn't want to do whatever he did.
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It doesn't matter that the way of life shown by Hollywood was phony. It helped you hope.
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I've got some gift for languages. You follow your gift. But Latin's not easy.
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I don't know, I like to go on really different types of dates. Going someplace new or some new part of the city, something that's not your average thing. Something where you just go have an adventure together.
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Marinating chicken in miso adds lots of character to the meat with little work.
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I used to be able to think. My brain's circuits were all connected, and I had spark, a quickness of mind that let me function well in the world.
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I had a lot of fun with my costume designer.
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Beware, all too often we say what we hear others say. We think what we are told that we think. We see what we are permitted to see. Worse, we see what we are told that we see.
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Making films. It gave me a voice. Legitimately saved me.
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I developed a deep sadness for celebrities, a pity that they often are caught in a plastic world that runs too hard and too fast, and that many times that world means destroyed relationships with everyone they know and love.
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I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.
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Against barbarity, poetry can resist only by confirming its attachment to human fragility like a blade of grass growing on a wall while armies march by.
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I know the difference between true love and the love of my fans.
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I think the way to understand Teach for America is as a leadership development program.
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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.
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I approached fundraising as an opportunity to align myself with partners who have more varied experience and diverse backgrounds than I do to help bring Glossier to life.
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Actors do like watching girls parade down the runway for some reason.
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There's another part of getting older that's just wonderful. Which is you see the way the stories turn out with peoples' lives.
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You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
