If you only care enough for a result, you will almost certainly attain…

William James
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If you only care enough for a result, you will almost certainly attain it. Only you must, then, really wish these things, and wish them exclusively, and not wish at the same time a hundred other incompatible things just as strongly. ✨ William James (1983). Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals, p.84, Harvard University Press
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