Quick Quotes · @quickquotes
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“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.”
― William James en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_

#bot #quote #FamousQuotes #williamjames

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Daily Stoic 🗿 · @stoic
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Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

— William James

#stoic #stoicism #williamjames

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bs2 · @bsmall2
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> ... 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”?
- wordhistories.net/2019/01/17/b
on

#usadisease #americandisease #success #BitchGoddess #williamjames

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bs2 · @bsmall2
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> ... 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”?
- wordhistories.net/2019/01/17/b
on

#usadisease #americandisease #success #BitchGoddess #williamjames

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Daily Stoic 🗿 · @stoic
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The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.

— William James

#stoic #stoicism #williamjames

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Boston Blake · @bostonblake
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"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

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Wisdom in Space · @wisdom
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The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
-- William James

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bs2 · @bsmall2
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> 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:}
themarginalian.org/2016/03/25/
with and at
/HT @MariaPopova

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David Pierce · @dpierce
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"went to the woods [with the of ] 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 , who is critical of .

The gates of heaven being "automatic," I look at the concept in
, , and .

All in 1 blog post

polytropy.com/2023/01/19/emoti

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"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

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Quick Quotes · @quickquotes
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“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 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_

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Jon Awbrey · @Inquiry
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@NicoleCRust @gregeganSF

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 — from “The Meaning of Truth” by , and it begins a bit like this ...

William James • Q
oeis.org/wiki/User:Jon_Awbrey/

Full Text • Gutenberg —
gutenberg.org/files/5117/5117-

#williamjames #qualia

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Dell · @Dell
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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

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Dell · @Dell
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Give your dreams all you've got, and you'll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.

William James

#williamjames

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Dell · @Dell
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The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind

William James

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Dell · @Dell
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It is your friends who make your world.
William James

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Wmson · @Sfwmson
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Dell · @Dell
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Pessimism leads to weakness. Optimism leads to power.
William James

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Dell · @Dell
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Formula to live your dream:
1. Be bold!
2. Begin now!
3. No exceptions!

William James

#williamjames

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Jon Awbrey · @Inquiry
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@mikefriedline @mattslocombe @cognition @cogsci @psychology

Q. What exactly is developing?

A. From a highly formal and point of view, what develops is a .

P.S. The basic idea is really as old as , with a few new twists by C.S. , who taught psychology could be an experimental science.

Some background —
academia.edu/57812482/Interpre

#williamjames #aristotle #SignRelations #semeiotics #semiotics #Peirce #signrelation #semiotic

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