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Talking, People, Unhappiness. 191 Copy quote. Thoughts become perception, perception becomes reality. Alter your thoughts, alter your reality. William James. Reality, Perception. 111 Copy quote. The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another. William James.
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Mar 25, 2016 · William James. James offers a wonderfully precise yet alive definition of attention: Attention … is the taking possession by the mind, in clear and vivid form, of one out of what seem several simultaneously possible objects or trains of thought, localization, concentration, of consciousness are of its essence.
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"A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices." "Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing." "Compared with what we ought to be, we are half awake." 1. From "The Energies of Men" (1907) "The art of being wise is th...
"Be willing to have it so. Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune." "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 beh...
"Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice." "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." 1. From The Varieties of Religious Experience(1902) "If merely 'feeling good' could decide, dru...
An internet resource developed by. The Principles of Psychology William James (1890) CHAPTER XI.ATTENTION. Strange to say, so patent a fact as the perpetual presence of selective attention has received hardly any notice from psychologists of the English empiricist school. The Germans have explicitly treated of it, either as a faculty or as a ...
May 25, 2020 · William James. >. Quotes. > Quotable Quote. (?) “Everyone knows what attention is. It is taking possession of the mind, in clear and vivid form, of one out of what seems several simultaneously possible objects or trains of thought. Focalization, concentration of consciousness are of its essence. It implies a withdrawal from some things in ...
- “Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action. ” ― William James.
- “The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook.” ― William James.
- “We are like islands in the sea, separate on the surface but connected in the deep.” ― William James.
- “A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.” ― William James.
Sep 5, 2019 · Introduction. “Everyone knows what attention is” (James, 1890) is one of the most popular quotes from William James and certainly the most famous statement about human attention. 1 We argue, however, that the overuse and popularity of this statement in cognitive research has been detrimental to progress – that in fact, no one knows what ...
