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Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.

William James
Running, Dream, Inspirational Sports

Sobriety diminishes, discriminates, and says no; drunkenness expands, unites, and says yes. Not through mere perversity do men run after it.

William James
Running, Men, Sobriety
1902 The Varieties of Religious Experience,'Mysticism'.

If the topic be highly abstract, show its nature by concrete examples. If it be unfamiliar, trace some point of analogy in it with the known. If it be inhuman, make it figure as part of a story. If it be difficult, couple its acquisition with some prospect of personal gain. Above all things, make sure that it shall run through certain inner changes, since no unvarying object can possibly hold the mental field for long.

William James
Running, Couple, Educational
"Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals".

I am, myself, a very poor visualizer and find that I can seldom call to mind even a single letter of the alphabet in purely retinal terms. I must trace the letter by running my mental eye over its contour in order that the image of it shall leave any distinctness at all.

William James
Running, Eye, Order
William James (1950). “The Principles of Psychology”, p.61, Courier Corporation

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