William James Quotes

Belief creates the actual fact.

William James

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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If you have a movie that doesn't strive to go to a certain emotional point, you can do anything and it will be fine and funny. But if you have something pretty emotional at its core, you have to make it right. You don't want it overwrought or unearned. Everything has to be moving towards this one thing.

Jennifer Yuh Nelson

FunnyMovingYouGoWantStrive

My pet peeve is when people criticize things when they're just trying to have a conversation.

Jeff Baena

PetPeopleTryingConversationJust

People in real life cuss God out when they're angry. That's all real.

Amber Tamblyn

LifeGodAngryPeopleRealOut

Whoever thinks that he alone has speech, or possesses speech or mind above others, when unfolded such men are seen to be empty.

Sophocles

AloneMenMindSpeechOthersEmpty

I think it's much harder now with the Internet to hone anything. It's easy to share things: you do one track, and it goes on Hype Machine; people are being exposed a lot earlier.

Shura

PeopleThinkInternetEasyYouNow

I think that's the biggest misconception when people want to live a more clean, cruelty-free life is, 'I can't do that. It's going to be so hard.' But I say do some research. You'd be surprised!

Torrey DeVitto

LifeLivePeopleResearchThinkYou

Obama and the Democrats are not focused on the moderates. They're focused on getting their base out, and they're trying to expand that base by forming sympathetic, empathetic alliances with the downtrodden, and there are a lot of downtrodden because Obama has made them that way via his policies.

Rush Limbaugh

TryingFocusedWayOutDemocrats

You are not born for fame if you don't know the value of time.

Luc de Clapiers

TimeValueYouBornKnowFame

A creative writing program is only as good as its teachers, and I was fortunate in having two great writers as mentors.

Jay McInerney

GoodGreatCreativeWritingMentors

Inspiration in Science may have to do with ideas, but not in Art. In art it is in the senses that are instinctively responsive to the medium of expression.

Arthur Erickson

ScienceArtIdeasInspirationMay

With a global society hungry for luxury, distribution and supply chains are now as important for executives as a hands-on feel for products.

Suzy Menkes

SocietyFeelLuxuryImportantChains

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Thomas Jefferson

AlwaysThingsHoldTakeHandle

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