ЦИТАТЫ автора: William James

“ To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal. ”

“ The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes. ”

“ 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. ”

“ It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome. ”

“ 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. ”

“ To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly. ”

“ 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. ”

“ The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one. ”

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

“ The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds. ”

“ Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible. ”

“ 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. ”

“ 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! ”

“ Our faith is faith in someone else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case. ”

“ If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience. ”

“ No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may remain entirely unaffected for the better. ”

“ If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it. ”

“ A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. ”

“ Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action. ”

“ 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. ”