 A third maxim may be added to the preceding pair: Seize the first possible opportunity to act on every resolution you make, and on every emotional prompting you may experience in the direction of the habits you aspire to gain. It is not in the moment...  The Freshman and His College: A College Manual - Page 38edited by - 1913 - 156 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Horatio Willis Dresser - 1924 - 760 pages
...whose chief maxim indicates a real possibility of volitional selection. "Seize the very first possible opportunity to act on every resolution you make, and...in the direction of the habits you aspire to gain," in the moment when the aspiration or resolve produces motor effects, communicates a new "set" to the... | |
 | 1922 - 754 pages
...learned how to make them forces within, governing life and our doings with men. Listen to William James: “It is not in the moment of their forming, but in...the moment of their producing motor effects, that ideals and aspirations communicate the new set to the brain !“ That is your scientist repeating Saint... | |
 | 1891 - 554 pages
...nervous habits, — " Seize the very first possible opportunity to act on every resolution you make. ... It is not in the moment of their forming but in the...aspirations communicate the new ' set' to the brain " Thus, as Professor James would illustrate (p. 127), " The physiological study of mental conditions... | |
 | 1904 - 1260 pages
...occur till the new habit is securely rooted in your life," and that you must " seize the first possible opportunity to act on every resolution you make, and...in the direction of the habits you aspire to gain." These rules, and all rules for the formation of habits drawn from practical experience, will imply... | |
 | William Walker Atkinson - 1996 - 234 pages
...cope with the opposition, under any ci rcumstances ." — Bain. III. "Seize the very first possible opportunity to act on every resolution you make, and...you may experience in the direction of the habits yon aspire to gain. It is not in the moment of their forming, but in the moment of their producing... | |
 | 1926 - 536 pages
...exception to occur till the new habit is securely rooted in your life. "3. Seize the very first possible opportunity to act on every resolution you make, and...in the direction of the habits you aspire to gain. "4. Don't preach too much to your pupils or abound in good talk in the abstract. Lie in wait rather... | |
 | William Safire, Leonard Safir - 1990 - 436 pages
.... . . Never suffer an exception to occur till the new habit is securely rooted in your life. . . . Seize the very first opportunity to act on every resolution...in the direction of the habits you aspire to gain. — William James 168 Handicaps Make sobriety a habit, and intemperance will be hateful; make prudence... | |
 | Elizabeth Towne - 1996 - 168 pages
...the man who, knowing a thing, goes and does it. Listen to William James: "Seize the first possible opportunity to act on every resolution you make, and...habits you aspire to gain. It is not in the moment of forming, BUT IN THE MOMENT OP THEIR PRODUCING MOTOR EFFECTS, that resolves and aspirations communicate... | |
 | William W. Atkinson - 1996 - 148 pages
...occur until the new habit is securely rooted in your life. Seize the very first possible opportunky to act on every resolution you make and on every emotional...in the direction of the habits you aspire to gain." This advice is along the lines familiar to all students of Mental Science, but it states the matter... | |
 | L.S. Vygotsky - 1997 - 422 pages
...the great means of making the nervous system act infallibly right. 3. Seize the very first possible opportunity to act on every resolution you make, and...aspirations communicate the new 'set' to the brain ... A tendency to act only becomes effectively ingrained in us in proportion to the uninterrupted frequency... | |
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