Time to improve is limited. The clock is always on and doesn't care if you don't feel like it. Someone else does and they're passing you by.


William James Moore

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Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
WILLIAM JAMES
Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.
WILLIAM JAMES
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
WILLIAM JAMES
Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference betwe...
WILLIAM JAMES
Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.
WILLIAM JAMES
I don't sing because I'm happy. I'm happy because I sing.
WILLIAM JAMES
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
WILLIAM JAMES
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
WILLIAM JAMES
We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the ...
WILLIAM JAMES
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our...
WILLIAM JAMES
The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner ...
WILLIAM JAMES
Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor i...
WILLIAM JAMES
Beyond the very extremity of fatigue distress, amounts of ease and power that we never dreamed ourse...
WILLIAM JAMES
See the exquisite contrast of the types of mind! The pragmatist clings to facts and concreteness, ob...
WILLIAM JAMES
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
WILLIAM JAMES
The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this su...
WILLIAM JAMES
The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical facult...
WILLIAM JAMES
One hearty laugh together will bring enemies into a closer communion of heart than hours spent on bo...
WILLIAM JAMES
If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experi...
WILLIAM JAMES
Time itself comes in drops.
WILLIAM JAMES
In the dim background of mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start.
WILLIAM JAMES
The whole drift of my education goes to persuade me that the world of our present consciousness is o...
WILLIAM JAMES
No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments ma...
WILLIAM JAMES
Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and in...
WILLIAM JAMES
A genius is the man in whom you are least likely to find the power of attending to anything insipid ...
WILLIAM JAMES
An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.
WILLIAM JAMES
There is only one thing that a philosopher can be relied on to do, and that is, to contradict other ...
WILLIAM JAMES
We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the oppos...
WILLIAM JAMES
Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
WILLIAM JAMES
The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his at...
WILLIAM JAMES
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sym...
WILLIAM JAMES
The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy...
WILLIAM JAMES
Whenever two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself,...
WILLIAM JAMES
These, then are my last words to you: be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and ...
WILLIAM JAMES
The stream of thought flows on; but most of its segments fall into the bottomless abyss of oblivion....
WILLIAM JAMES