An impression which simply flows in at the pupil's eyes or ears and in no way modifies his active life, is an impression gone to waste. It is physiologically incomplete... Its motor consequences are what clinch it.

Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.

It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.

Volition . . . takes place only when there are a number of conflicting systems of ideas, and depends on our having a complex field of consciousness.

If you want a confidence, act as if you already have it. Try the "as if" technique.

If an unusual necessity forces us onward, a surprising thing occurs. The fatigue gets worse up to a certain point, when, gradually or suddenly, it passes away and we are fresher than before!

The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.