Act in earnest and you will become earnest in all you do. - William James

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To distance ourselves from our experience makes our feelings a liability, while staying in conversation with our experience makes our feelings a resource.

William James

Act in earnest and you will become earnest in all you do.

Act, Become, Earnest, Honesty, Integrity, Truth

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You can be an artist without visual images, a reader without eyes, a mass of erudition with a bad elementary memory. In almost any subject your passion for the subject will save you. If you only care enough for a result, you will almost certainly attain it. If you wish to be rich, you will be rich; if you wish to be learned, you will be learned; if you wish to be good, you will be good. Only you must, then, really wish these things, and wish them with exclusiveness, and not wish at the same time a hundred other incompatible things just as strongly.

Artist, Attain, Eye, Images, Memories, Passion

I don't sing because I'm happy; I'm happy because I sing.

Happiness, Happy, Music, Philosophical, Sing

The transition from tenseness, self-responsibility, and worry, to equanimity, receptivity, and peace, is the most wonderful of all those shiftings of inner equilibrium, those changes of personal centre of energy, which I have analyzed so often; and the chief wonder of it is that it so often comes about, not by doing, but by simply relaxing and throwing the burden down.

Chief, Personal, Relaxing, Responsibility, Self, Worry

The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.

Allies, Ally, Education, Enemy, Make

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.

Altering, Attitudes, Discovery, Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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To distance ourselves from our experience makes our feelings a liability, while staying in conversation with our experience makes our feelings a resource.

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The more I heard that I couldn't make it, the more I was determined to do it. I never liked being told that I'm not good enough to do this or that.

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It's difficult sometimes when you have somebody who is of a different culture trying to make light of something that is maybe not quite something that they understand.

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If parents are aiming at choosing children who will be good athletes, or great musicians, or who will get into Ivy League schools, or who will be tall enough to make the basketball team, then there is a danger that the life of the child will bear the burden of that expectation; and the risk of disappointment and the cost of disappointment will be even higher than they are now, and even now they can be considerable.

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