An expectation is a future object, recognised as belonging to me.

In the perception of a tree we can distinguish the act of experiencing, or perceiving, from the thing experienced, or perceived.

But though cognition is not an element of mental action, nor even in any real sense of the word an aspect of it, the distinction of cognition and conation has if properly defined a definite value.

Psychology is the science of the act of experiencing, and deals with the whole system of such acts as they make up mental life.

The interval between a cold expectation and a warm desire may be filled by expectations of varying degrees of warmth or by desires of varying degrees of coldness.

Curiosity begins as an act of tearing to pieces or analysis.

It may be added, to prevent misunderstanding, that when I speak of contemplated objects in this last phrase as objects of contemplation, the act of contemplation itself is of course an enjoyment.

But unfortunately Locke treated ideas of reflection as if they were another class of objects of contemplation beside ideas of sensation.

Both expectations and memories are more than mere images founded on previous experience.

We cannot therefore say that mental acts contain a cognitive as well as a conative element.

The mental act of sensation which issues in reflex movement is so simple as to defy analysis.

The older I get the more I enjoy my childhood…! ~James A. Murphy

When the winter comes, fire becomes a king!

But after this natural burst of indignation, no man of sense, courage, or prudence will waste his time or his strength in retrospective reproaches or repinings.

It's a wonderful world. It may destroy itself but you'll be able to watch it all on TV.

You were programmed to deliver a message, and the creation of that message is your greatest art. What is the message? Your life.

Oftentimes I deliberately put ambiguity into my books so that... the reader is left with an echo of: 'How much of this was from me?'

The mind knows...that there is an action principle that governs how the world evolves from one moment to the next - that restricts our world's path to points that tell an internally consistent story.

One knows quite well that harmony can be a harmony of appearances.

I handed in a script last year and the studio didn't change one word. The word they didn't change was on page 87.

No opinion can be trusted; even the facts may be nothing but a printer's error.