"The education of attention would be an education par excellence"

-- William James

#Excellence Quotes #Would Be Quotes #Attention Quotes

“Pick any player of the world. Make him the captain of India. I can assure you that the results will still be the same. MS Dhoni just not lucky enough to have the kind of bowlers that top teams like Australia, South Africa and New Zealand have.”
“I am quite a private person.”

Source : "Club class". Interview with Hadley Freeman, www.theguardian.com. June 10, 2005.
“My evil genius Procrastination has whispered me to tarry 'til a more convenient season.”

Source : Justin G. Turner, Linda Levitt Turner, Mary Todd Lincoln (1972). “Mary Todd Lincoln: her life and letters”, Random House Inc
“It's a whole nother aspect of this life that most people have no idea about. There's the loved ones, the wives, the girlfriends, the children. Some of the people out here are fathers and mothers. Whether you mean to or not, you end up neglecting your family in a lot of ways. Even if you do your best to keep in touch, the fact of the matter is that you're physically absent.”

Source : Source: theindiespiritualist.com
“My life would be in danger if I return to Mexico.”
“Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.”
“One mistake with beginners in writing is, that they think it important to spin out something long. It is a great deal better not to write more than a page or two, unless you have something to say, and can write it correctly.”
“I wrote the Brotherhood song for no money out of my deep feelings about humanity, and because I was flattered that whatever talents I had, had been recognized.”

You may also like:

B. F. Skinner
Psychologist
Charles Sanders Peirce
Philosopher
G. Stanley Hall
Psychologist
Henri Bergson
Philosopher
Henry James
Writer
John B. Watson
Psychologist
John Dewey
Philosopher
Sigmund Freud
Neurologist
Wilhelm Wundt
Psychologist