William James Quotes

A winner's attitude: it may be difficult, but it's possible. A loser's attitude: It may be possible, but it's too difficult.

William James

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• I am completely in favour of dialogue and engagement. But it must be a true, open dialogue.

  

  Ma Jian
  • Engagement
  • Open
  • Dialogue

• I think, for me, Julian Schnabel set a great precedent in being able to cross over so successfully. I feel like his artwork is kind of big, grand, and bombastic, yet the films that he makes are very beautifully sensitive, and I just feel that his filmmaking sensibility is very different from his artwork.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Great
  • Different
  • Me

• Loser lit antiheroes aren't well intentioned or earnest; they don't care whether you like them or not. They're self-mocking, ironic and inventive; they narrate their downfalls with manic wordplay, rampant metaphors, wisecracks, and escalating flights of spleen-fueled lyricism.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • You
  • Care
  • Ironic

• Countries that intervene militarily rarely do so out of pure altruism.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Countries
  • Pure
  • Altruism

• A career in showbiz is like a distance run. You have to have patience and pace yourself.

  

  Tate Donovan
  • Career
  • You
  • Yourself

• You don't boo at a Kemp rally. You boo at football games.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • You
  • Football
  • Games

• To stay interested in tennis, I have to mix it up with other things.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Up
  • Things
  • Tennis

• If I give five flops, I won't get a job. You have to perform at the box office when you are at the top. No one is running a charity here. People are putting huge amounts of money to make movies, and they want the films to be successful. They have invested money in you, so it is your duty to make sure the film does well.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • People
  • Money
  • Job

• I don't sit under the tattoo gun unless I'm sold on it completely and it will define me as a person.

  

  Yelawolf
  • Me
  • Person
  • Gun

• We're all interconnected. For example, a simple lack of fresh water can lead to population dislocation, which can lead to political radicalization, which can lead to great pressure on the states that receive refugees because of a migrating population.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Great
  • Political
  • Simple

• Let me tell you, my career went from zero to 900. Its hard keeping up with that pace, but I wouldn't trade it for anything else in the world.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Up
  • World
  • Career

• Men think a woman should not have an opinion.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Men
  • Think
  • Opinion

• I was born in India - but never really lived there.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • Never
  • Born
  • India

• Music is like my security blanket.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Music
  • Security
  • Blanket

• Rauner needs to tell Illinoisans what essential health benefits he intends to keep covering in Illinois.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Health
  • Benefits
  • Tell

• When I'm writing, I like to seal everything off and face the wall, not to look outside the window. The only way out is through the sentences.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Writing
  • Wall
  • Face

• I was raised a Christian. I'd like to think I have Christian values. I don't attend church.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Think
  • Church
  • Christian

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

  

  Harley Viera-Newton
  • People
  • Love
  • London

• For a young person, anybody who's sorting out and trying to make a life for himself or herself, to have the opportunity each day to set down - sit down and then set down thoughts, words - it's a crucial, crucial way of staying alive, of not allowing yourself and not allowing the culture outside yourself to totally dominate your life.

  

  John Edgar Wideman
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Culture

• When you're stuck on something creatively, you can't solve a problem, you go to a coffee shop.

  

  Eric Weiner
  • Problem
  • Stuck
  • Solve

• We should bring in an environmental attitude, and I think luxury should automatically be about sustainability and quality.

  

  Jochen Zeitz
  • Quality
  • Attitude

• I think one of the few times I've been involved with real-life characters was the story of Marie Bonaparte. I think it's really difficult to become someone that really existed.

  

  Catherine Deneuve
  • Difficult
  • Characters
  • Become

• A winner's attitude: it may be difficult, but it's possible. A loser's attitude: It may be possible, but it's too difficult.

  

  William James
  • Attitude
  • Difficult
  • Winner