 So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do. It is determined by the ratio of our actualities to our supposed potentialities...  Psychology - Página 187por William James - 1905 - 478 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | William James - 1890 - 718 páginas
...pretensions are the denominator and the numerator our success : thus, Self-esteem =p — 7 — ^ • Such a fraction may be increased as well by diminishing...gratified ; and where disappointment is incessant r and tlie struggle unending, this is what men will always do. The history of evangelical theology,... | |
 | William James - 1890 - 720 páginas
...diminishing the denominator as by increasing the numerator.* To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief ad to get them gratified ; and where disappointment is...history of evangelical theology, with its conviction of gin, its self-despair, and its abandonment of salvation by •works, is the deepest of possible examples,... | |
 | William James - 1890 - 712 páginas
...our pretensions are the denominator and the numerator our success : thus, Self -esteem =p — 7 = • Such a fraction may be increased as well by diminishing...numerator.* To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief ad to get them gratified ; and where disappointment is incessant and the struggle unending, this is... | |
 | William James - 1890 - 716 páginas
...pretensions are the denominator and the numerator our success : thus, Self -esteem =p-^-7— — • Such a fraction may be increased as well by diminishing...numerator.* To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief .-is to get them gratified ; and where disappointment is incessant and the straggle unending, this... | |
 | Harlan Eugene Read - 1915 - 304 páginas
...would run counter to the saint's ; the bon-vivant and the philanthropist would trip each other up. "To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as...struggle unending, this is what men will always do. "The Stoic receipt for contentment was to dispossess yourself in advance of all that was out of your own... | |
 | Herbert Martin - 1925 - 360 páginas
...back-bone of their souls. ' ' Professor James, a pathfinder in the realm of the real, informs us that "to give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them gratified. Many Bostonians would be happier men and women today, if they would once for all abandon the notion... | |
 | Rolland Maclaren Stewart, Arthur Kendall Getman - 1927 - 394 páginas
...pretensions are the denominator and the numerator our success: thus, 0 ,„ , Success Self-esteem = _ Pretensions Such a fraction may be increased as well...diminishing the denominator as by increasing the numerator. " Many a teacher has become discouraged in his program of improvement in service because the problem... | |
 | Leta Stetter Hollingworth - 1928 - 308 páginas
...emotional outbursts. When the revision has been accomplished, the emotional instability subsides; for "to give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them gratified." THE CONFLICT AMONG POTENTIAL SELVES Now, it is a fact nearly self-evident that every adolescent has... | |
 | Harold Dwight Lasswell - 1969 - 465 páginas
...regressive reaction was characterized many years ago by William James: "To give up pretensions is just as blessed a relief as to get them gratified, and...struggle unending, this is what men will always do." 12 A poignant illustration of the regressive reaction is what polite commentators recently have taken... | |
 | Harold Dwight Lasswell - 1969 - 465 páginas
...regressive reaction was characteri2ed many years ago by William James: "To give up pretensions is just as blessed a relief as to get them gratified, and...the struggle unending, this is what men will always do."12 A poignant illustration of the regressive reaction is what polite commentators recently have... | |
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