William James Quotes

You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don't dream about.

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• I'll hear people say every so often that having HIV must not be so bad - 'Just look at Magic and how well he's doing.'

  

  Magic Johnson
  • People
  • Bad
  • Magic

• I was sent the script for 'Silver Linings' when I was doing a play in D.C. at The Kennedy Center with Cate Blanchett and I was sent the script and asked if I was interested, and I said 'Oh, boy am I!'

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Boy
  • Doing
  • Silver

• We need to ask who is the enemy, and the enemies are terrorists.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Enemy
  • Need
  • Ask

• Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.

  

  Quintilian
  • Like
  • Dreams
  • Hopes

• The West has become the world model; developing countries are dreaming of living like us, which is impossible. They should reject our model, because it is not sustainable. Developing countries should even give us the example, but unfortunately that's not what happens.

  

  Yann Arthus-Bertrand
  • World
  • Model
  • Impossible

• I think the media world is adjusting to the digital age.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • World
  • Age
  • Media

• I think Hillary Clinton is a good and effective secretary of state.

  

  Walid Muallem
  • Good
  • Think
  • Secretary

• I'm sure my father had more to do with my career than I would like to give him credit for. I would love to think it was all me!

  

  Laura Linney
  • Love
  • Father
  • Think

• Whenever I go on the red carpet and I'm a bit nervous, I just say to myself the mantra, 'Come on Barbara, you gotta get those pictures posted on Instagram!' That's all I have in my mind, like, 'Look serious now, maybe give a little smile, but a cheeky one,' but in the end, it's never how it looks.

  

  Barbara Palvin
  • Mind
  • Myself
  • Serious

• I played violin and got into that Suzuki program in the second grade.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Got
  • VIolin
  • Grade

• There are 10 men in me and I do not know or understand one of them.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Men
  • Know
  • Understand

• American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Up
  • Business
  • American

• It is so easy to forget that this is good that we're alive. We should be enjoying this gift of being alive.

  

  Victoria Principal
  • Good
  • Easy
  • Gift

• It takes people a while to trust you.

  

  Karl Malone
  • People
  • You
  • Trust

• Working with Sturges was like working with a guy who wanted to have a party all the time. He was very serious about his work, but in between shots, he was fun and we would play games.

  

  Eddie Bracken
  • Time
  • Work
  • Fun

• Getting to do 'December Songs' in a cabaret-style format was so interesting because it's like a one-woman song cycle that actually tells a story. It feels like a theatrical experience more than a cabaret because I didn't talk in between. We went from one song to the next, nine songs in a row - bam - I told the story in half an hour.

  

  Laura Osnes
  • Experience
  • Song
  • Interesting

• One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Books
  • Morality
  • Reasons

• Thirty years ago dinner theatre used to be much more of a going concern than it is now.

  

  Ted Shackelford
  • Theatre
  • Now
  • Dinner

• Though a state of affairs that would contravene the laws of physics can be represented by us spatially, one that would contravene the laws of geometry cannot. (3.0321)

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

• It couldn't have been more nerdy or bizarre, playing the clarinet. But I studied classical clarinet, went to the high school for music and art in New York City, and then found the guitar and the mandolin after it.

  

  Christopher Guest
  • Music
  • School
  • Art

• I believe in God, who can respond to prayers, to whom we can give trust and without whom life on this earth would be without meaning (a tale told by an idiot). I believe that God has revealed Himself to us in many ways and through many men and women, and that for us here in the West the clearest revelation is through Jesus and those that have followed him.

  

  Nevill Francis Mott
  • God
  • Trust
  • Prayer

• There are two questions that you ask yourself as a writer, and one of them is, 'But why?' The question that takes the book forward is, 'What if? What if x y or z happened? How would those characters react?'

  

  Penny Jordan
  • Why
  • Book
  • Question

• When human rights are systematically abused, it raises the question whether it may be legitimate in some circumstances for the international community to intervene within individual states as well as in conflicts between states.

  

  Charles Kennedy
  • May
  • Community
  • Question

• You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don't dream about.

  

  William James
  • May
  • Dream