Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.
William JamesIf you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me.
William JamesThere can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.
William JamesThe art of remembering is the art of thinking. When we wish to fix a new thing in either our own mind or a pupil's, our conscious effort should not be so much to impress and retain it as to connect it with something else already there. The connecting is the thinking; and, if we attend clearly to the connection, the connected thing will certainly be likely to remain within recall.
William James