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The one who thinks over his experiences most, and weaves them into systematic relations with each other, will be the one with the best memory.

The one who thinks over his experiences most, and weaves them into systematic relations with each other, will be the one with the best memory.

William James
Memories, Thinking, Experience
William James (2012). “Psychology: The Briefer Course”, p.129, Courier Corporation

You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.

William James
Experience, Cash, Streams
1907 Pragmatism, lecture 2.

Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.

William James
Experience, Boiling Over, Way
William James (2008). “Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking”, p.98, Cosimo, Inc.

Millions of items in the outward order are present to my senses which never properly enter into my experience. Why? Because they have no interest for me. My experience is what I agree to attend to. Only those items which I notice shape my mind --without selective interest, experience is an utter chaos.

William James
Order, Mind, Experience
William James (2012). “The Principles of Psychology”, p.402, Courier Corporation

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