William James Quotes

All the higher, more penetrating ideals are revolutionary. They present themselves far less in the guise of effects of past experience than in that of probable causes of future experience, factors to which the environment and the lessons it has so far taught us must learn to bend.

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• But... watching Steven Barnes taught me to treat my life like an art form.

  

  Larry Niven
  • Life
  • Art
  • My Life

• Writing for children hadn't occurred to me when I was younger, but nine years of teaching in the upper elementary grades had given me a deep appreciation of the gifts and graces that are specific to individuals with 10 or 11 years of experience as human beings.

  

  Zilpha Keatley Snyder
  • Writing
  • Children
  • Experience

• Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Knowledge
  • Risk
  • Doing

• I was a big fan of Indiana Jones; then I realized he was kind of a fake hero. The real heroes are the people who work hard and do their stuff right, like firefighters and policemen.

  

  Nathan Gamble
  • People
  • Work
  • Real

• I am not a prisoner of conscious, but people try to make me one sometimes. It is both a gift and a curse. It's a high honour but can create limitations - I have to be fluid.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Gift
  • Conscious
  • Curse

• I've got this old-school workout - push-ups, sit-ups, tricep dips. And it worked. Anybody can do this at home.

  

  Valerie Bertinelli
  • School
  • Home
  • Workout

• Personally, I think universities are finished. So much rubbish gets taught.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Think
  • Universities
  • Rubbish

• There's no musical landscape to poetry. It has somewhat of a higher standard than songs, I think.

  

  J. D. Souther
  • Think
  • Poetry
  • Landscape

• Well, love motivates me in everything I do.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Love
  • Me
  • Motivates

• Sound-wise, I'm really limitless in the way I write songs. Whatever comes out, comes out. Every song is completely different.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Different
  • Song
  • Way

• My success has got so great, it's like I'm trapped, almost, within it.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Great
  • Success
  • Trapped

• As soon as I start reading, drawing comes to me more easily. I find I work in my sketchbooks more. But if I'm working on a new show, my reading completely stops except when I'm on a plane. I take a stack of New Yorkers with me. I feel awful about those stacks of New Yorkers.

  

  Barry McGee
  • Work
  • Reading
  • Start

• The names of common flowers change from decade to decade, so I spent a lot of time with old outdated dictionaries, with awful flower names like 'mouse-eared chickweed.'

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • Time
  • Change
  • Flower

• I love coming to London and seeing what people on the street are wearing.

  

  Harley Viera-Newton
  • People
  • Love
  • London

• Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.

  

  B. H. Liddell Hart
  • Life
  • War
  • Hope

• I try to show ugliness, but with compassion for the people who commit ugly acts.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • People
  • Compassion
  • Ugly

• I can't tell you what a pleasure it is to just put my hair under a wig cap and slap on a wig that's already done. It's dress up for your hair!

  

  Felicity Huffman
  • Up
  • Done
  • Hair

• When you write, you write out of your best self. Everything else drops away.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • You
  • Best
  • Self

• Most devices have been hacked in some way and are part of - part of a botnet network that can come after you in DDoS attacks.

  

  Dan Schulman

• Most creative people fall into one of two categories - either they're task-oriented, or they're time-oriented.

  

  Brian Stelfreeze
  • People
  • Time
  • Fall

• I would like to be a heart surgeon or brain surgeon... something with that knowledge and the ability to save a life would be pretty cool. I wasn't that good in science class, though.

  

  Luke Bryan
  • Life
  • Good
  • Heart

• Generally, women can't do this, but men retain the ancient ability to leave a family and a past. They just unhook themselves, like removing a fake beard, and skulk discreetly back into society, changed men. Unrecognizable.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Men
  • Women
  • Family

• It is imperative that the past of the pilgrims' progress be intentionally carried forward into the present as we work into our future. Without it we cannot know who we are, why we are here, or where we can go. Without a common past to live out of we become aimless and wandering individuals instead of a pilgrim people.

  

  H. Richard Niebuhr
  • People
  • Work
  • Live

• All the higher, more penetrating ideals are revolutionary. They present themselves far less in the guise of effects of past experience than in that of probable causes of future experience, factors to which the environment and the lessons it has so far taught us must learn to bend.

  

  William James
  • Science
  • Past
  • Environment