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William James quotes

American philosopher and psychologist (1842-1910).

• We are not only gregarious animals, liking to be in sight of our fellows, but we have an innate propensity to get ourselves noticed, and noticed favorably, by our kind.

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• My experience is what I agree to attend to.

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• Only those items which I notice shape my mind.

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• The faculty of voluntarily bringing back a wandering attention, over and over again, is the very root of judgment, character, and will.

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