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.
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When you appear on the screen, often enough you become sexy, even if you look like an elephant.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Politics is a herd mentality. Politicians don't really lead. Politicians reflect what they think is consensus opinion.
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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.
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In my proper character, I am an officer of the United States Army.
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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?
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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.
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Anyone who's seen me before knows that when it's fight time, I don't have much to say.
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In an unconstitutional partnership with the state, the church can impose the most irresistible, if covert, controls conceivable.
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Be as polite to the custodian as you are to the chairman of the board.
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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.
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I don't think that the Grammys are in any way a just way of grading music.
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I have to say I am a 'Strictly' fan, which is why I am in it. I've always watched it for years. I am not an 'X Factor' fan, and I just think it is a different show. One is about learning something new and having a great time, and the other is rather desperate.
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The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book.
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We always keep God waiting while we admit more importunate suitors.
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I am not a person who pursues luxury. I am not like those people who, once they have money, compulsively squander it or show it off.
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You see that a handful of times every year where a person that hasn't been playing that well pops up and wins.
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Mere imagination would indeed be mere trifling; only no imagination is mere.
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When you click on a link, you are replicating the string of code that it links to. Replication of code sequences isn't life, any more than replication of nucleotide sequences is, but we know that it sometimes leads to life.
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The American Dream I believe in is one that provides anyone willing to work hard enough with the opportunity to succeed.
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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.
