William James Quotes

It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.

William James

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: philosopher
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 11, 1842 - August 26, 1910

Topics

AttitudeBeginningWillDifficult

You do a film for a short time period - you put it all out there and move on.

Jessica Szohr

TimeShortYouMove OnOutFilm

I can't imagine anything worse than being just left alone, scared out of your mind.

Melissa McBride

AloneMindOutScaredAnythingLeft

Home is where the heart is, and my heart will forever be in Cleveland.

Anderson Varejao

HomeHeartWillForeverWhere

The difference between noise and music is in what the musician does with the sounds.

Jean-Michel Jarre

MusicDifferenceNoiseBetweenDoes

To those acting against peace, civilization and the world order: We will oppose you.

John R. Allen

PeaceWorldYouActingCivilization

We didn't know if the rover could climb up or down the hills of the crater.

Steven Squyres

ClimbDownKnowUpHillsRover

When I was growing up, kids would go outside and play all day and invent things. And my brothers and I pretended our picnic table was a ship one summer. Our bikes were horses, and our trees were forts. We turned everything in the world into make-believe.

Mary Pope Osborne

DayGrowing UpWorldTreesShip

I wanted a CFO with public company experience; I needed an HR department, new office space, and a board which could help me grow the business. Insight, the private equity firm I chose, helped me with all that.

Jon Oringer

BusinessExperienceSpaceMeHelp

If you do anything for 40 years, you can do it comfortably. And it will always be good. But unless you're willing to risk it being bad, it can never be great.

Arlo Guthrie

GoodGreatYou Can Do ItYouBad

Inspired by the purse rather than the soul, the mercenary side fairly screams in many of the works put out by every day American publishers.

Alma Gluck

DaySoulAmericanEvery DayOut

I am, of course, directly descended from Brian Boru, the last king of Ireland, a fact certified by my mother and therefore beyond dispute. But as everybody else with a drop of Irish blood in his carcass is also a guaranteed descendant of the old billy goat, I am not overly arrogant because of this royal strain.

Preston Sturges

MotherI AmKingBloodRoyalBeyond

I want to work with Wes Anderson, Paul Thomas Anderson, the Coen Brothers, or Spike Jonze.

Thomas Middleditch

WorkWantBrothersPaulSpikeCoen

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