Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don't want to do.William James
The first thing to learn in intercourse with others is non-interference with their own peculiar ways of being happy, provided those ways do not assume to interfere by violence with ours.
William James
Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being. They make very small use of their possible consciousness, and of their soul's resources in general, much like a man who, out of his whole bodily organism, should get into a habit of using and moving only his little finger.
William James
In the dim background of mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start.
William James
In the practical use of our intellect, forgetting is as important as remembering.
William James
Geniuses are commonly believed to excel other men in their power of sustained attention . . . But it is their genius making them attentive, not their attention making geniuses of them.
William James
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