William James Quotes

Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.

William James

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• When I was going through puberty, I had all these feelings of being unstable through those years, and being uncontrollably drawn to things of beauty and things that are bad.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Bad
  • Feelings
  • Years

• I stayed in the astronaut program until 1993. People ask me why I left. I thought I had a lot of things to contribute that would be difficult to do if I stayed. I thought I could have a stronger voice as an advocate for space exploration. So I ended up starting my own technology consulting company.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • People
  • Up
  • Why

• Vox populi vox dei: the voice of the people is the voice of God. The slogan was useful for those who first attempted to substitute the people for God as the source of political authority. Their attempt was ultimately so successful that God no longer seems to be needed in government.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • People
  • God
  • Political

• Arab leaders worry more about making money from the profits they get from oil and gas that they turn the other way when Lebanon is being destroyed right next to them. Their neighbours are being murdered, but they only make calculations for their own benefit.

  

  Abu Bakar Bashir
  • Money
  • Worry
  • Making Money

• I have a funny family, but none of them are remotely in show business.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Family
  • Business
  • Funny

• I have been extremely lucky with reviewers and critics throughout my career.

  

  Kate Smith
  • Career
  • Lucky
  • Critics

• I grew up in Pittsburgh, and regularly, my parents would take us to the Holiday House Supper Club to see acts like Nancy Wilson, Sarah Vaughn, Ben Vereen, Freda Payne, Stephanie Mills, and The Temptations, to name a few.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • Up
  • House
  • Parents

• The Dumnonii, whose city or fortress was at Exeter, were an important people. They occupied the whole of the peninsula from the River Parret to Land's End. East of the Tamar was Dyfnaint, the Deep Vales; west of it Corneu, the horn of Britain.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • People
  • Important
  • City

• Being a writer - even a best-selling one - is usually not anywhere near as public as being a movie star, at least not when I'm out in 'real life' like this. Not that I don't use what fame I have, every chance I get, to help sell more books.

  

  Nancy Pickard
  • Life
  • Real
  • Help

• I don't expect anybody to know who I am.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Know
  • Expect

• Since the 1960s, exile for Haitians is a condition that ends only to begin again.

  

  Madison Smartt Bell
  • Condition
  • Again
  • Begin

• Words originating from the verb 'to die' were frequently used when I described my initial plans to determine the ribosome structure.

  

  Ada Yonath
  • Words
  • Die
  • Plans

• I thought using the Ayatollah's money to support the Nicaraguan resistance was a neat idea.

  

  Oliver North
  • Money
  • Support
  • Thought

• Who I have fought and how I have fought, it says something about me.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Me
  • Something
  • How

• All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Way
  • Thought
  • U.S.

• You can't wear only one dress and be so safe. You have to risk; that's how you learn about yourself.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Risk
  • Yourself
  • Dress

• Shakespeare is universal.

  

  Harold Bloom
  • Universal
  • Shakespeare

• I was a ballet dancer growing up and that's what I was convinced I would be.

  

  Candice Swanepoel
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Growing Up

• How you staff, particularly the chief of staff, the national security adviser, your White House counsel, how you set up a process in the system to surface information and generate options for a president, understanding that ultimately the president is going to be the final decision-maker. That's something that has to be attended to right away.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Up
  • House
  • Understanding

• The challenge is, well, there's a huge challenge, which is when you're improvising, you're meant to sort of clear your mind completely, just be open and funny, and paying, you know, paying attention.

  

  Brian Henson
  • Challenge
  • Improvising

• I became obsessed with the storytelling of photography and going on little adventures.

  

  Cole Sprouse
  • Photography

• I hope that my achievements in life shall be these-that I will have fought for what was right and fair, that I will have risked for that which mattered, and that I will have given help to those who were in need that I will have left the earth a better place for what I've done and who I've been.

  

  Carl Hoppe
  • Life
  • Earth
  • Helping

• Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.

  

  William James
  • Achievement
  • Motivational
  • Clever