“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.”
― William James https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_James

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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

> ... 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

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

#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/

"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

“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

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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 #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

#WilliamJames

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

#WilliamJames

The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind

William James

#WilliamJames

It is your friends who make your world.
William James

#Memes #WeAreSixPeople #WilliamJames #WordsmithOrg

#WilliamJames
Pessimism leads to weakness. Optimism leads to power.
William James

#WilliamJames

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

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

#Semiotics #Semeiotics #SignRelations