“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.”
― William James https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_James
#bot #quote #FamousQuotes #williamjames
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
— William James
#stoic #stoicism #williamjames
> ... understandable in onlooking citizens only as a symptom of the moral flabbiness born of the exclusive worship of the bitch-goddess Success. That—with the squalid cash interpretation put on the word success—is our national disease. Hit it hard! Your book must have a great effect. Do you remember the glorious remarks about success in Chesterton’s “Heretics”?
- https://wordhistories.net/2019/01/17/bitch-goddess/
#WilliamJames on #BitchGoddess #Success #AmericanDisease #USADisease
#usadisease #americandisease #success #BitchGoddess #williamjames
> ... understandable in onlooking citizens only as a symptom of the moral flabbiness born of the exclusive worship of the bitch-goddess Success. That—with the squalid cash interpretation put on the word success—is our national disease. Hit it hard! Your book must have a great effect. Do you remember the glorious remarks about success in Chesterton’s “Heretics”?
- https://wordhistories.net/2019/01/17/bitch-goddess/
#WilliamJames on #BitchGoddess #Success #AmericanDisease #USADisease
#usadisease #americandisease #success #BitchGoddess #williamjames
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
— William James
#stoic #stoicism #williamjames
"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
#quote #williamjames #psychology #goals #dreams #goforit
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
-- William James
#wisdom #williamjames #quotes #panopainting #bot
> My experience is what I agree to attend to. Only those items which I notice shape my mind — without selective interest, experience... chaos... [WJ:William James]
> .. commonplace and utterly radical for us today — somehow, mesmerized by the glowing rectangles we carry everywhere, we seem to have relinquished this most elemental form of agency shaping our experience of life.[MP:}
https://www.themarginalian.org/2016/03/25/william-james-attention/
#MariaPopova with #SimoneWeil and #WIlliamJames at #TheMarginalian
/HT @MariaPopova
#TheMarginalian #williamjames #simoneweil #mariapopova
#Thoreau "went to the woods [with the #Iliad of #Homer] because I
wished ... to front only the essential facts of life ... nor did I wish
to practise resignation."
The Achaeans' fear and Hector's anger illustrate *The Principles of Art*
of #RGCollingwood, who is critical of #WilliamJames.
The gates of heaven being "automatic," I look at the concept in
#Herodotus, #Plato, and #Aristotle.
All in 1 blog post
https://polytropy.com/2023/01/19/emotional-contagion-iliad-viii/
#aristotle #plato #herodotus #williamjames #rgcollingwood #homer #iliad #thoreau
"Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact." - William James #ThursdayMotivation #QuoteOfTheDay #ContinuousImprovement #Coaching #LyonStrategic #WilliamJames
#thursdaymotivation #quoteoftheday #continuousimprovement #coaching #lyonstrategic #williamjames
“The greatest discovery of our generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. As you think, so shall you be.”
― William James https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_James
#bot #quote #FamousQuotes #williamjames
Well, it's not StarTrek but I've been known to call it “The Story of Q” and it's not exactly SciFi but it is a speculative narrative about #Qualia — from “The Meaning of Truth” by #WilliamJames, and it begins a bit like this ...
William James • Q
• https://oeis.org/wiki/User:Jon_Awbrey/EXCERPTS#William_James_.E2.80.A2_Q
Full Text • Gutenberg —
• https://www.gutenberg.org/files/5117/5117-h/5117-h.htm
To change one's life:
a. Start immediately
b. B. Do it flamboyantly
c. No exceptions
Never suffer an exception to occur till the new habit is securely rooted.
William James
#WilliamJames
Give your dreams all you've got, and you'll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
William James
It is your friends who make your world.
William James
#WilliamJames
Pessimism leads to weakness. Optimism leads to power.
William James
@mikefriedline @mattslocombe @cognition @cogsci @psychology
Q. What exactly is developing?
A. From a highly formal and #Semiotic point of view, what develops is a #SignRelation.
P.S. The basic idea is really as old as #Aristotle, with a few new twists by C.S. #Peirce, who taught #WilliamJames psychology could be an experimental science.
Some background —
• https://www.academia.edu/57812482/Interpretation_as_Action_The_Risk_of_Inquiry
#williamjames #aristotle #SignRelations #semeiotics #semiotics #Peirce #signrelation #semiotic