William James Quotes

It's hard to get people to focus on one idea.

Behavior is motivation filtered through opportunity.

How you think determines how you act. How you act in turn determines how others react to you.

Motivation describes your attitude when you would rather do one thing more than another at a particular time.

Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.

We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

We talk on principal, but act on motivation.

Every action needs to be prompted by a motive.

I'd far rather talk about players. They are the people who make things happen.

Everything we do, I'd imagine, influences everything we will do.

There is only one way to respond to the issue of leadership and that is to lead.

Ideas lead to actions.

Without concentration, a business will be ordinary in every respect, because it will have no presence, no inner force, no way to attract the people upon whom it depends for its very existence - employees, customers, suppliers, and lenders.

When there's training, I will focus only on training.

One man thinks before he acts. Another man thinks after he acts. Each is of the opinon that the other thinks too much.

I know what I want to do and it makes sense to get going.

Awareness isn't passive. It directly leads to action (or inaction).

Our motives and thoughts ultimately influence our actions.

Take the best action toward your most important goal right now.

Analysis can tell us what is required, but it cannot make us act.

There is no tomorrow to remember if we don’t do something today, and to live most fully today, we must do that which is of greatest importance. Let us not procrastinate those things which matter most.

It is time to leave. Oprah has spoken.

Action often precedes the feeling.

Call Berlin. Drop everything we're doing. I have a complete vision of what should be.