“'Pure experience' is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.”
Experience“Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.”
Life“'Pure experience' is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.”
Experience“Wisdom is learning what to overlook.”
Learning“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.”
Attitude“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!”
Faith“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.”
Faith“Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them.”
Truth“Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.”
Sports“The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.”
Great“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.”
Change“The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour.”
Nature“The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.”
Great“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.”
Attitude“If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.”
Leadership“Man lives for science as well as bread.”
Science“If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.”
Change“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.”
Motivational“If the grace of God miraculously operates, it probably operates through the subliminal door.”
God“The best argument I know for an immortal life is the existence of a man who deserves one.”
Best“Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.”
Power“It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.”
Age