#iv

Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results. ↗

— William James

#accomplished #accordingly #act #amazed #attitude

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter. ↗

— William James

#begin #hereafter #now #will #you

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

— William James

#altering #attitudes #beings #human #human beings

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

I don't have to live this lavish lifestyle. ↗

— Shia LaBeouf

#lavish #lifestyle #live

Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two sentences is something for which the professorial intellect has no use. No faith in anything of that cheap kind! ↗

— William James

#anything #believes #cheap #discourse #faith

A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him. ↗

— William James

#individuals #man #many #recognize #selves

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure. ↗

— William James

#fact #gain #happiness #how #in fact

It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true. ↗

— William James

#beforehand #come #enough #faith #hour

I don't think a reporter should give advice or make predictions. ↗

— Peter Jennings

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