William James Quotes

Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.

William James

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• I just wanted to give them the 'Lost Jewelry' so they can say, 'Yo, they get that's mean.' And then when I tell 'em, 'Yo, that ain't even the meal. Get ready for the meal!' That's when we 'bout to go crazy because the taste of the appetizer.

  

  Raekwon
  • Lost
  • Crazy
  • Jewelry

• I have a secret love of jazz.

  

  Carly Rae Jepsen
  • Love
  • Secret
  • Jazz

• I define power as 'control over one's life.' A balanced life is far superior to the male definition of power: earning money someone else spends while he dies sooner.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Life
  • Money
  • Power

• It is clothes. It is parts. Therefore, you combine the parts differently to create your own unique expression.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
  • You
  • Unique
  • Clothes

• I don't have an MBA, and I didn't go to Yale. I'm not an academic person and wasn't a good student. Instead, I've been taught by some of the most inspiring people in the world.

  

  Lapo Elkann
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • You
  • Alive
  • Evolve

• The idea of having a house, a kid, a husband, and a dog... I love that. I also really want to open a coffee and flower shop one day, probably in Italy.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Husband
  • Idea
  • Kid

• I never wanted to take autographs, always wanted to give them. To do this, you have to achieve something.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Always
  • Never
  • Achieve

• I'm inspired every time I see a role I'd like to play, an actor turn in a well crafted performance, a story I'd like to tell, direct or produce.

  

  T'Keyah Crystal Keymah
  • Time
  • Story
  • Inspired

• It was 1966 by the time I started taking pictures seriously and books, newspapers and magazines of the time were full of great pictures that helped to inspire me.

  

  Fay Godwin
  • Time
  • Great
  • Inspire

• One immutable trait of the gullible is that they are credulous to a fault. Though no-doubt well-meaning, the naive are Trump's base.

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • Doubt
  • Trump
  • Fault

• I have the picture in my mind of how emotional I will feel if I win again.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Mind
  • Picture
  • Emotional

• The fighter loses more than his pride in the fight; he loses part of his future. He's a step closer to the slum he came from.

  

  Floyd Patterson
  • Future
  • Pride
  • Fight

• Women's behavior in handling beauty, even before feminism, was to deny they had any. Don't hate me because I'm beautiful.

  

  Nancy Friday
  • Women
  • Beautiful
  • Hate

• I'm constantly hydrating my hair.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Hair
  • Constantly

• I'd like to do a story about the medieval ages where in every scene you'd sort of feel that you were in the 12th century. That would be great to get that feeling.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • Great
  • Feeling
  • Feel

• I didn't get any crazy sponsors. I don't have any extra sponsors since I got the belt.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Crazy
  • Got
  • Belt

• The key to success is to get out into the store and listen to what the associates have to say.

  

  Sam Walton
  • Success
  • Key
  • Key To Success

• It’s about community and it’s also about commitment. If you’re bringing in 40- to 50-percent more new people each time, that says there’s an appetite for what we’re doing and a shared level of concern.

  

  Nancy Pfotenhauer
  • Community
  • Commitment
  • Concern

• If I were to be cast as Cyrano or a Connecticut prep-school teacher or a gay boutique owner, it would only happen if some director I had worked with in the past said, 'Why don't we give Rispoli a shot at it?'

  

  Michael Rispoli
  • Director
  • Would
  • Worked

• I'd love to do well on a big weekend with people watching and cheering, of course. But it's not fair to create an expectation level before I know what is realistic. I want to finish as well as possible. Is that top 20? Top 15? Top 25? You just have to play it by ear.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • People
  • Possible
  • Expectation

• I have always loved the amateur side of photography, automatic photographs, accidental photographs with uncentered compositions, heads cut off, whatever. I incite people to make their self-portraits. I see myself as their walking photo booth.

  

  William Klein
  • People
  • Cutting
  • Photography

• That's a very high goal to have, study eight hours a day to be a concert pianist.

  

  Eunice Kathleen Waymon
  • Goal
  • Pianist

• Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.

  

  William James
  • Expression
  • Ease
  • Disgusted