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After I saw Kiss on stage, I wanted my show to look like the fourth of July. The persona of Rick James was wild and crazy, sex, drugs and rock and roll. ↗

— Rick James

#crazy #fourth #i #james #july

I was going to get drafted, but I didn't really want to go into the Army. ↗

— Rick James

#drafted #get #go #going #i

I'm trying to change the root of funk, trying to make it more progressive, more melodic and more lyrically structured. ↗

— Rick James

#funk #i #lyrically #make #melodic

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

— William James

#alter #altering #attitudes #being #discovery

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. ↗

— William James

#bad #believe #change #different #enough

Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another. ↗

— William James

#another #being #currents #dynamic #effective

The essence of genius is to know what to overlook. ↗

— William James

#genius #know #overlook

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. ↗

— William James

#blame #common #determines #does #environment

It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again. ↗

— William James

#age #character #like #most #never

No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may remain entirely unaffected for the better. ↗

— William James

#advantage #better #character #concrete #entirely