William James Quotes
Psychology saves us from mistakes. It makes us more clear as to what we are about. We gain confidence in respect to any method which we are using as soon as we believe that it has theory as well as practice at its back.
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I wish there was a painter who could paint as well as Ted Williams could hit.
Jack Levine
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When you appear on the screen, often enough you become sexy, even if you look like an elephant.
Vincent Cassel
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As the law minister, I had ensured that the government's right to natural resources was protected. The result was evident. The honourable Supreme Court gave the landmark decision in RIL vs RNRL case that the government is the owner of all natural resources.
Veerappa Moily
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It's not a lack of confidence, because I can't argue with the fact that I've taken some good pictures. But it's just a raw fear that you've taken the last one.
Sally Mann
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I don't want to waste my energy in other things; instead, I would put all that in reaching the next level in a craft that I love the most.
N. T. Rama Rao, Jr.
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When I'm in 'Man vs. Wild' mode, it's not pleasure. Every sensor is firing and I'm on reserve power all the time and I'm digging deep - and that's the magic of it as well, and that's raw and it's great.
Bear Grylls
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I wanted to be a writer first, and I struck out in the world to be a writer first, and then found stand-up as a more creative outlet, as a 3D way to be creative.
B. J. Novak
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Politics is a herd mentality. Politicians don't really lead. Politicians reflect what they think is consensus opinion.
Gary Johnson
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Being in a wheelchair for 30 years. I'm not whining about it because I don't dwell on things I can't do anything about, you know. I never really think about until somebody mentions it. I did take a bullet.
Larry Flynt
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In my proper character, I am an officer of the United States Army.
Zebulon Pike
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Ultimately, all human activities have as their goal the realization of happiness. Why, then, have we ended up producing the opposite result? Could the underlying cause be our failure to correctly understand the true nature of happiness?
Daisaku Ikeda
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Like most struggling writers trying to get their scripts commissioned, I had to do something odd to pay the rent. So, aged 21, I started up my own small cheesecake company in Philadelphia.
Nancy Meyers
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Anyone who's seen me before knows that when it's fight time, I don't have much to say.
Laila Ali
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I believe that acting in any medium is the same thing, it's discovering the truth in where you are.
Victor Garber
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In an unconstitutional partnership with the state, the church can impose the most irresistible, if covert, controls conceivable.
Madalyn Murray O'Hair
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Be as polite to the custodian as you are to the chairman of the board.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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I am a free lover. I have an inalienable, constitutional and natural right to love whom I may, to love as long or short a period as I can; to change that love every day if I please.
Victoria Woodhull
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I don't think that the Grammys are in any way a just way of grading music.
Walter Becker Steely Dan
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Saying nothing... sometimes says the most.
Emily Dickinson
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I like illusion when it is so convincing that we might as well see reality this way - I like to present to our belief system something that is convincing, that 'we know not to be.'
James Turrell
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I kind of got really, really into 'Hill Street Blues' when it came out. I used to leave a class early just to make sure I could watch the episode of 'Hill Street Blues' that day.
Mark Pellegrino
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Clever men are good, but they are not the best.
Thomas Carlyle
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I believe that both Obama and Trump would describe themselves as outsiders.
John Waters
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Psychology saves us from mistakes. It makes us more clear as to what we are about. We gain confidence in respect to any method which we are using as soon as we believe that it has theory as well as practice at its back.
William James