#thing

It's quite similar to guitar solos, only with programming you have to use your brain. The most important thing is that it should have some emotional effect on me, rather than just, 'Oh, that's really clever.' ↗

— Richard D. James

#clever #effect #emotional #guitar #guitar solos

If anything I consider myself non-violent, I'm from the hippy era, peace, love, groovy. ↗

— Rick James

#consider #era #groovy #hippy #i

I was angry about the fact that my father would beat my mother on a daily basis, that my mother would take it in turn and beat on me. I was an abused child. I was mad about all those things, very bitter and very angry. ↗

— Rick James

#angry #basis #beat #bitter #child

I'm too old to do crazy things anymore. ↗

— Rick James

#crazy #i #old #things #too

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

The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it. ↗

— William James

#great #outlast #something #spend #use

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

There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or snicker; if sad, it must not scream or curse. ↗

— William James

#any #attitude #curse #glad #grin

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

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