#us

Well, I am very happy that I was able to play a part in bringing music from the streets onto the radio and into modern culture, I worked very hard and always believed in the sounds I was creating. ↗

— Ice T

#always #am #believed #bringing #creating

Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice. ↗

— William James

#each #everybody #hates #just #least

Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way. ↗

— William James

#genius #little #means #more #perceiving

We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause. ↗

— William James

#bad #bad one #between #cause #choice

Our errors are surely not such awfully solemn things. In a world where we are so certain to incur them in spite of all our caution, a certain lightness of heart seems healthier than this excessive nervousness on their behalf. ↗

— William James

#behalf #caution #certain #errors #excessive

The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it. ↗

— William James

#life #outlast #something #spend #use

Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them. ↗

— William James

#challenges #credit #fact #in fact #just

The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour. ↗

— William James

#cold #criticisms #crushed #dry #due

There is an organic affinity between joyousness and tenderness, and their companionship in the saintly life need in no way occasion surprise. ↗

— William James

#between #companionship #joyousness #life #need

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self. ↗

— William James

#failure #faith #his #human #lack