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William James Quotes

American - Philosopher | January 11, 1842 - August 26, 1910

'Pure experience' is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.

Life Reflection Experience Name Pure

If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.

Leadership Care Enough Result You

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

Happy Because Sing

The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.

Life Will Greatest Something Outlast

Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

Life Worth Living Worth Living Liver

Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.

Life Soul Habit Blame Thinking Why

If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.

Leadership Quality You Want Act Had

Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

Mind Human Human Beings Alter Lives

Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

Day Practice Two Things Just Hates

If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.

Change Future Past Believe Reality

Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.

Happiness Action Without Bring May

We don't laugh because we're happy - we're happy because we laugh.

Happy Laugh Because

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