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[Quote No.62070] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"The art of being wise [progress, achievement and success] is the art of knowing what [unhelpful things, actions, emotions, etc] to overlook. ...The function of [distracting] ignoring, of inattention, is as vital a factor in mental progress as the function of attention itself." - William James
In 'The Principles of Psychology', (1918), Vol. 2, p369, p371.
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[Quote No.63631] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitude [what he pays attention to].
" - William James
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[Quote No.63905] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"The greatest weapon against stress [inaction, pain and fear] is our ability to choose [and focus on] one thought over another!" - William James
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[Quote No.65126] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another [our ability to choose what we focus our attention on as well as what we thereby distract our attention from]!
" - William James
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[Quote No.70816] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"[Focus on the good things in your life that you want and distract from the not so good things that you donβt want:] The faculty of voluntarily bringing back a wandering attention, over and over again, is the very root of judgment, character, and will. ...An education which should improve this faculty would be the education par excellence." - William James
The father of modern psychology
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[Quote No.3812] Need Area: Mind > Persist
"Need and struggle are what excite and inspire us. " - William James
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[Quote No.4841] Need Area: Mind > Persist
"Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it. " - William James "Will" Durant
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[Quote No.15211] Need Area: Mind > Persist
"Never suffer an exception to occur till the new habit is securely rooted in your life. Each lapse is like the letting fall of a ball of string which one is carefully winding up; a single slip undoes more than a great many turns will wind again." - William James
(1842 - 1910) American psychologist and philosopher
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[Quote No.29498] Need Area: Mind > Persist
"Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second. Give your dreams all you've got and you'll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you." - William James
(1842 - 1910), American psychologist, professor and author.
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[Quote No.31858] Need Area: Mind > Persist
"If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it." - William James
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[Quote No.32181] Need Area: Mind > Persist
"It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome." - William James
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[Quote No.34363] Need Area: Mind > Persist
"Compared to what we ought to be, we are only half awake. We are making use of only a small part of our physical and mental resources. Stating the thing broadly, the human individual thus lives far within his limits. He possesses power of various sorts which he habitually fails to use. [One of the most powerful of which is the power to persist regardless of difficulties and setbacks! More things have been achieved by this power than the average person would believe!]" - William James
(1842 - 1910), American psychologist, professor and author.
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[Quote No.48209] Need Area: Mind > Persist
"Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake. Our fires are damped, our drafts are checked. We are making use of only a small part of our possible mental resources. . . men the world over possess amounts of resource, which only exceptional individuals push to their extremes of use." - William James
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[Quote No.48374] Need Area: Mind > Persist
"If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
" - William James
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[Quote No.49805] Need Area: Mind > Persist
"Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second." - William James
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[Quote No.54216] Need Area: Mind > Persist
"But, whether the attention [focus] come by grace of genius or by dint of will, the longer one does attend to [focus on] a topic the more mastery of it one has. And the faculty of voluntarily bringing back a wandering attention [focus], over and over again [persistently], is the very root of judgment, character, and will. No one is 'compos sui' [latin for 'master of one's self'] if he have it not. An education which should improve this faculty would be the education par excellence!" - William James
(1842 1910) American philosopher and psychologist who was also trained as a physician. Often referred to as 'The Father of American Psychology'. Quote from his book, 'The Principles of Psychology', (1890).
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[Quote No.55511] Need Area: Mind > Persist
"The greatest weapon against stress [and discouragement] is our ability to choose [to focus on] one thought over another.
" - William James
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[Quote No.57596] Need Area: Mind > Persist
"If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly [persist despite difficulties and thereby improve your chances to] attain it." - William James
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[Quote No.58388] Need Area: Mind > Persist
"Geniuses are commonly believed to excel other men [or women] in their power of sustained attention!
" - William James
[https://www.brainpickings.org/2016/03/25/william-james-attention/ ]
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[Quote No.61531] Need Area: Mind > Persist
"...every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort." - William James
(1842-1910)
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[Quote No.63622] Need Area: Mind > Persist
"Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power." - William James
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[Quote No.63633] Need Area: Mind > Persist
"The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitude [what he pays attention to]!!
" - William James
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[Quote No.63906] Need Area: Mind > Persist
"The greatest weapon against stress [quitting, pain and fear] is our ability to choose [and focus on] one thought over another!" - William James
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[Quote No.64031] Need Area: Mind > Persist
"Great [difficulties] emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed." - William James
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[Quote No.65125] Need Area: Mind > Persist
"The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another [our ability to choose what we focus our attention on as well as what we thereby distract our attention from]." - William James
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[Quote No.68527] Need Area: Mind > Persist
"Pessimism leads to weakness [and quitting], optimism to power [and persistence]." - William James
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[Quote No.70817] Need Area: Mind > Persist
"[Focus on the good things in your life that you want and distract from the not so good things that you donβt want:] The faculty of voluntarily bringing back a wandering attention, over and over again, is the very root of judgment, character, and will! ...An education which should improve this faculty would be the education par excellence." - William James
The father of modern psychology
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[Quote No.385] Need Area: Mind > Evolve
"No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may retain entirely unaffected for the better. With mere good intentions, hell is proverbially paved. " - William James
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[Quote No.3798] Need Area: Mind > Evolve
"Compared to what we ought to be, we are only half awake...We are making use of only a small part of our possible mental and physical resources...The human individual thus lives far within his limits; he possesses powers of various sorts he habitually fails to use. " - William James
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[Quote No.6793] Need Area: Mind > Evolve
"Compared to what we ought to be, we are only half awake.
We are making use of only a small part of our physical and mental resources." - William James
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[Quote No.19009] Need Area: Mind > Evolve
"The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal." - William James
(1842 - 1910) American psychologist and philosopher
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[Quote No.34275] Need Area: Mind > Evolve
"Compared to what we ought to be, we are only half awake. We are making use of only a small part of our physical and mental resources. Stating the thing broadly, the human individual thus lives far within his limits. He possesses power of various sorts which he habitually fails to use." - William James
(1842 - 1910), American psychologist, professor and author.
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[Quote No.39194] Need Area: Mind > Evolve
"Most of us can learn to live in perfect comfort on higher levels of power. Everyone knows that on any given day there are energies slumbering in him which the incitements of that day do not call forth. Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake. It is evident that our organism has stored-up reserves of energy that are ordinarily not called upon - deeper and deeper strata of explosible material, ready for use by anyone who probes so deep. The human individual usually lives far within his limits." - William James
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[Quote No.50191] Need Area: Mind > Evolve
"All our life, so far as it has definite form, is but a mass of [learned] habits - practical, emotional, and intellectual - systematically organized for our weal or woe, and bearing us irresistibly toward our destiny, whatever the latter may be. [We can plan and learn new ones to reach our goals and realise more of our innate potential!!]
" - William James
American philosopher, psychologist and physician.
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[Quote No.61160] Need Area: Mind > Evolve
"No matter how full a reservoir of maxims [wisdom] one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may remain entirely unaffected for the better. With mere good intentions, hell is proverbially paved." - William James
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[Quote No.62387] Need Area: Mind > Evolve
"All our life, so far as it has definite form, is but a mass of habits practical, emotional, and intellectual systematically organized for our weal or woe, and bearing us irresistibly toward our destiny, whatever the latter may be!" - William James
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[Quote No.14312] Need Area: Mind > Progress
"The man whose acquisitions stick is the man who is always achieving and advancing whilst his neighbors, spending most of their time in relearning what they once knew but have forgotten, simply hold their own." - William James
(1842-1910) American psychologist and philosopher
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[Quote No.16589] Need Area: Mind > General
"A genius is the man in whom you are least likely to find the power of attending to anything insipid or distasteful in itself. He breaks his engagements, leaves his letters unanswered, neglects his family duties incorrigibly, because he is powerless to turn his attention down and back from those more interesting trains of imagery with which his genius constantly occupies his mind." - William James
(1842 - 1910) American psychologist and philosopher
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[Quote No.16590] Need Area: Mind > General
"Genius, in truth, means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way." - William James
(1842 - 1910) American psychologist and philosopher
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[Quote No.16591] Need Area: Mind > General
"The world is only beginning to see that the wealth of a nation consists more than anything else in the number of superior men that it harbors. Geniuses are ferments; and when they come together, as they have done in certain lands at certain times, the whole population seems to share in the higher energy, which they awaken. The effects are incalculable and often not easy to trace in detail, but they are pervasive and momentous." - William James
(1842 - 1910) American psychologist and philosopher
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[Quote No.62385] Need Area: Mind > General
"[Life-skills:] All our life, so far as it has definite form, is but a mass of habits practical, emotional, and intellectual systematically organized for our weal or woe, and bearing us irresistibly toward our destiny, whatever the latter may be." - William James
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[Quote No.70578] Need Area: Mind > General
"[Life-skills:] The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioning our characters in the wrong way." - William James
(1842-1910), American philosopher, historian, and psychologist, and the first educator to offer a psychology course in the United States. James is considered to be a leading thinker of the late 19th century, one of the most influential philosophers of the United States, and the 'Father of American psychology'.
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[Quote No.46993] Need Area: Body > Health
"The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose [focus on] one thought over another." - William James
American psychologist and philosopher
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[Quote No.70598] Need Area: Money > Spend
"[Minimalism, essentialism, enoughism:-] I saw that it was the artificial needs of life that made me a slave; the real needs of life were few." - William James Dawson
(1854 - 1875), English clergyman, lecturer, and author.
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[Quote No.20308] Need Area: Money > General
"...the squalid cash interpretation put on the word 'success' - is our national disease." - William James
(1842 - 1910) American psychologist and philosopher
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[Quote No.30575] Need Area: Work > Service
"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.
" - William James
(1842 - 1910), American psychologist, professor and author.
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[Quote No.39864] Need Area: Work > Service
"Remember, the deepest principle of human nature is the craving to be appreciated." - William James
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[Quote No.11170] Need Area: Work > Leadership
"The best use of life is to spend it for something that outlasts life.[like work and children]" - William James
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[Quote No.17352] Need Area: Work > Leadership
"Ultimately, laughter makes an office a place where people want to work." - William James
(1842 - 1910) American psychologist and philosopher
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[Quote No.26931] Need Area: Work > Leadership
"Lord, deliver me from the person who never makes a mistake [because they refuse to take a risk on something new], and also from the person who makes the same mistake twice [because they don't learn from experience]." - William James Mayo
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