William James Quotes

William James Quotes.

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Whenever two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is.
William James
There is a law in psychology that if you form a picture in your mind of what you would like to be, and you keep and hold that picture there long enough, you will soon become exactly as you have been thinking.
William James
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
William James
An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.
William James
Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they’ve got a second.
William James
A winner’s attitude: it may be difficult, but it’s possible. A loser’s attitude: It may be possible, but it’s too difficult.
William James
Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.
William James
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.
William James
The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
William James
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
William James
Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.
William James
Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
William James
If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
William James
Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
William James
Man lives for science as well as bread.
William James
Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
William James
When you have to make a choice and don’t make it, that is in itself a choice.
William James