William James Quotes

The truth remains that, after adolescence has begun, "words, words, words," must constitute a large part, and an always larger part as life advances, of what the human being has to learn.

William James

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• I have always believed that astrophysics should be the extrapolation of laboratory physics, that we must begin from the present universe and work our way backward to progressively more remote and uncertain epochs.

  

  Hannes Alfven
  • Work
  • Universe
  • Present

• Everything does go in a circle.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • Circles

• The more wakeful a man is to the things which surround him, the more asleep is he, and his waking is worse than his sleep.

  

  Idries Shah
  • Man
  • Sleep
  • Worse

• We need to ensure that our voice is heard in the process because obviously we do have different views and we can't always accept fait d' accompli positions when they clearly don't reflect the view of our constituents.

  

  Olympia Snowe
  • Different
  • Voice
  • Process

• He [Hemingway] used a stand-up work place he had fashioned out of the top of of a bookcase near his bed. His portable typewriter was snugged in there and papers were spread along the top of the bookcase on either side of it. He used a reading board for longhand writing.

  

  A. E. Hotchner
  • Up
  • Work
  • Writing

• I don't fight creativity. I don't fight against not being creative. If I'm not being creative, I'm not forcing it.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Fighting
  • Creativity
  • Creative

• Bad companies are destroyed by crisis, Good companies survive them, Great companies are improved by them.

  

  Andy Grove
  • Good
  • Great
  • Bad

• The blues have always had some of the best times, best feelings I’ve ever had.

  

  Keanu Reeves
  • Always
  • Feelings
  • Blues

• Follow your feelings. If it feels right, move forward. If it doesn't feel right, don't do it.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Feelings
  • Move
  • Forward

• There is, I conceive, no contradiction in believing that mind is at once the cause of matter and of the development of individualised human minds through the agency of matter.

  

  Alfred Russel Wallace
  • Mind
  • Development
  • Contradiction

• And how fascinating history is - the long, variegated pageant of man's still continuing evolution of this strange planet, so much the most interesting of all the myriads of spinners through space.

  

  G. M. Trevelyan
  • Long
  • History
  • Interesting

• This being Black History Month, I would like to ask people to celebrate the similarities and not focus on the differences between people of color and not of color.

  

  Lynn Swann
  • People
  • History
  • Black

• We are looking forward to trying to get in the playoffs and make something happen. It's all a matter of confidence and we have that now. We can still make the playoffs, it's all up to us.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Confidence

• George: "I can't see anyone trying to bump off a quidditch team." Fred: "Wood might've done the Slytherins if he could've got away with it.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Trying
  • Done
  • Team

• I think it's harder to go from comedy to drama than from drama to comedy. Seeing you dramatic all the time, they crave to see you being silly or funny. But, seeing you in comedy all the time, it's hard to see that person go be serious, for some reason.

  

  Evan Peters
  • Funny
  • Comedy
  • Drama

• As we continued upward, I thought about how adults sometimes complain that kids only think about ourselves, but it's not true. We care a lot about other people, but most times, we don't have the power to change things for them.

  

  Cynthia Lord
  • Kids
  • Think
  • Ourselves

• It's highly improbable in the limitless vastness of the Universe that we humans stand alone.

  

  Charles Bolden
  • Alone
  • Universe
  • Humans

• For me, speaking is work. It's not like when you breathe.

  

  Milos Forman
  • Breathe
  • Speaking

• The truth remains that, after adolescence has begun, "words, words, words," must constitute a large part, and an always larger part as life advances, of what the human being has to learn.

  

  William James
  • Humans
  • Remains
  • Adolescence