"Act the part and you will become..." - Quote by William James
Act the part and you will become the part.
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“There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.”
“When we of the so-called better classes are scared as men were never scared in history at material ugliness and hardship; when we put off marriage until our house can be artistic, and quake at the thought of having a child without a bank-account and doomed to manual labor, it is time for thinking men to protest against so unmanly and irreligious a state of opinion.”
“Philosophy is "an unusually stubborn attempt to think clearly.”
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“Very often the only way to get a quality in reality is to start behaving as if you had it already.”
“Desire is the mother of motivation because that is where your motivation is born.”
“Some people are hurting so bad you have to do more than preach a message to them. You have to BE a message to them.”
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“Since all of us desire to be happy, and since we evidently become so on account of our use—that is our good use—of other things, and since knowledge is what provides this goodness of use and also good fortune, every man must, as seems plausible, prepare himself by every means for this: to be as wise as possible. Right?”
“I will form good habits and become their slaves.”
“It is not that we love to be alone, but that we love to soar, and when we do soar, the company grows thinner and thinner until there is none at all. …We are not the less to aim at the summits though the multitude does not ascend them.”