William James Quotes
I have often thought the best way to define a man's character would be to seek out the particular mental or moral attitude in which, when it comes upon him, he felt himself most deeply and intensely active and alive. At such moments there is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!.
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I breathe martial arts every day of my life.
Rafael dos Anjos
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I don't remember anybody's name. How do you think the 'dahling' thing got started?
Zsa Zsa Gabor
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Eventually, I grew out of my interest in motorcycles because they're quite dangerous. I don't ride them anymore. But I have this history.
Rachel Kushner
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You don't boo at a Kemp rally. You boo at football games.
Jack Kemp
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I had no desire to be a chef, but I had a desire to be someone who was heard.
Eddie Huang
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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There's not some idea I'm going to create a work that's going to change everybody's consciousness.
Eckhart Tolle
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I came of age as a male lead actor just as the TV landscape dramatically shifted.
Damian Lewis
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Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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We did an album one time called White Mansions, about the civil war, but it was written by a guy from England. His looking at it from over there and it not being a part of his history made it so he could be objective.
Waylon Jennings
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As someone who works from home, my top style tip is to make sure you get dressed in the morning.
Kate Reardon
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Playing further up the pitch, you have more opportunities to score and provide assists, and it's something I liked right from the start.
Francesco Totti
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To say that people would cease to come to California if they would have to pay more taxes is to underestimate the advantages of being in California - mightily.
Warren Beatty
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Whatever we put our attention on will grow stronger in our life.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
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Readers are very, very savvy, and I don't want to insult them by making them think I'm too lazy to get it right.
Karin Slaughter
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Yes, women should be free to cover their faces when walking down the street. But in our schools, hospitals, airports, banks and civil institutions, it is not unreasonable - nor contrary to the teachings of Islam - to expect women to show the one thing that allows the rest of us to identify them... namely, their face.
Maajid Nawaz
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A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.
Lao Tzu
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I wanted to start working on something that had a lasting effect.
Dan Deacon
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The Bank had never used the word 'corruption' at all until I got there, and the reason for that was, as the general counsel pointed out to me, that quite a number of our shareholders represented were not immune from corruption in their governments.
James Wolfensohn
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So much of my life is spent just focused on driving race cars.
Jeff Gordon
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If you want to stop me you're going to have to came at me like your going to kill me.
Natsuki Takaya
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Building a successful company (or living a happy life, for that matter) is not about embracing someone else's philosophy, but staying true to your own beliefs about the world and learning from the mistakes you make along the way.
Ben Parr
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Success is measured in months for me. When my health fails, it will fail quickly. Tumors grow on an exponential curve.
Randy Pausch
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I have often thought the best way to define a man's character would be to seek out the particular mental or moral attitude in which, when it comes upon him, he felt himself most deeply and intensely active and alive. At such moments there is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!.
William James