James Quotes

Clive James - “It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.”

Dan James - “The Golden Rule of sales is the Golden Rule.”

Dan James - “The desire to serve is Godlike.”

Dan James - “To provide appropriate service you have to know what your customer is feeling.”

Dan James - “Asking questions will get you the performance you are after far better than dictating demands.”

Eliott James - “To judge another is to believe that we understand the position of another soul. Who can really know the consciousness of another soul?”

G. P. R. James - “I envy them, those monks of old; Their books they read, and their beads they told.”

Geoffrey James - “A master was explaining the nature of Tao to one of his novices. 'The Tao is embodied in all software — regardless of how insignificant,' said the master. 'Is Tao in a hand-held calculator?' asked the novice. 'It is,' came the reply. 'Is the Tao in a video game?' continued the novice. 'It is even in a video game,' said the master. 'And is the Tao in the DOS for a personal computer?' The master coughed and shifted his position slightly. 'The lesson is over for today,' he said.”

George Wharton James - “Who can explain Joseph Smith? What are 'revelations from God'? What is their test? Is it not beyond reason that a lad, born of poor parents, devoid of any save the commonest education, too poor to buy books, should have accomplished what he did in less than 40 years, unless there was some great reason for it? Let any one, even a literary genius, after 40 years of life, try to write a companion volume to the Book of Mormon, and then almost daily for a number of years give out 'revelations' that internally harmonize one with another, at the same time formulate a system of doctrine for a church, introduce many new principles, resuscitate extinct priesthoods and formulate a system of Church government which has no superior upon earth . . . to deny such a man a wonderful power over the human heart and intellect is absurd. Only fanatical prejudice can ignore it. However he may be accounted for by the reasoning mind, Joseph Smith, the Mormon Prophet was one of the wonders of his time.”

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Henry James - “It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.”

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Henry James - “Of his own death: So here it is at last, the distinguished thing.”

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Marguerite James - “I would rather see one happy plant of knotweed than half a dozen aristocratic individuals struggling unsuccessfully.”

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P. D. James - “It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.”

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P. D. James - “It's possible to fight intolerance, stupidity and fanaticism when they come separately. When you get all three together it's probably wiser to get out, if only to preserve your sanity.”

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Tina James - “Gardening is any way that humans and nature come together with the intent of creating beauty.”

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William James - “Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.”

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William James - “The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.”

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William James - “Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.”

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William James - “Be willing to have it so. Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.”

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William James - “The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.”

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William James - “Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking is the one thing that insures the successful outcome of our venture.”

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William James - “They conquer who believe they can. He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.”

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William James - “Most of us can learn to live in perfect comfort on higher levels of power. Everyone knows that on any given day there are energies slumbering in him which the incitements of that day do not call forth. Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake. It is evident that our organism has stored-up reserves of energy that are ordinarily not called upon — deeper and deeper strata of explosible material, ready for use by anyone who probes so deep. The human individual usually lives far within his limits.”

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William James - “Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is still theoretically possible ... faith is the readiness to act in a cause the prosperous issue of which is not certified to us in advance.”

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William James - “It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live al all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only true thing that makes the result come true.”

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