William JamesThinkers

Achievement requires pushing oneself. Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.

Alcohol is of such widespread use because it is able to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature which are usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour.

Appreciation is a craving that accounts for the deepest principle in human nature.

Attention is a thing if made the center of education would make for an education par excellence.

Character is often brought out by responsibility. A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.

Cheerfulness is achieved by sitting cheerfully and acting and speaking as if cheerfulness were already there.

The Community of self is what the time-gap of consciousness cannot break in twain and is why a present thought, although not ignorant of the time-gap, can still regard itself as continuous with certain chosen portions of the past.

A Concept is an abusive rupture in the flow of life. The way attention 'cuts up the flux' or tears out and isolates something from the continuum of felt experience, rendering it into something fixed, stagnant and petrified.

A Concept distorts rather than reveals reality.