Coaches Hot Seat NFL Quotes of the Day – Monday, December 4, 2017 – William James
Coaches Hot Seat NFL Quotes of the Day – Monday, December 4, 2017 – William James
“A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.”
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“A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.”
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“Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.”
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“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.”
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“Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.”
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“An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.”
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“Belief creates the actual fact.”
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“Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.”
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“Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.”
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“Compared to what we ought to be, we are half awake.”
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“Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state.”
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“Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.”
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“Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not.”
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“Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.”
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“Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.”
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“Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.”
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“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.”
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“Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.”
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“I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.”
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“If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.”
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“If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.”
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“If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.”
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“Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.”
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“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.”
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“Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they’ve got a second.”
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“The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.”
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“The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.”
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“The best argument I know for an immortal life is the existence of a man who deserves one.”
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“The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.”
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“The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.”
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“The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.”
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“These then are my last words to you. Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.”
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“To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.”
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“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.”
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“We don’t laugh because we’re happy – we’re happy because we laugh.”
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“Whenever you’re in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is “attitude.”
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