The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
William JamesCramming seeks to stamp things in by intense application immediately before the ordeal. But a thing thus learned can form but few associations.
William JamesWe must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can...in the acquisition of a new habit, we must take car to launch ourselves with as strong and decided initiative as possible. Never suffer an exception to occur till the new habit is securely rooted in your life.
William JamesIndividuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done.
William James