Very nit-picky but I’m not sure this is a real William James quote: “Act as if what you do makes a difference.Itdoes.” Doesn’t really sound like him to me.
Looks like it checks out:
“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.”
Correspondence with Helen Keller, 1908, in The Correspondence of William James: April 1908–August 1910, Vol. 12, Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2004, page 135, as cited in: Academics in Action!: A Model for Community-engaged Research, Teaching, and Service (New York: Fordham University Press, 2016, page 71)
https://archive.org/details/academicsinactio0000unse/page/1/mode/1up
Thank you so much David! I spent a while looking before I commented and I could only find it on ’brainyquotes.com′ and the like. In this case- I really like that quote- suits the website.
Very nit-picky but I’m not sure this is a real William James quote: “Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.” Doesn’t really sound like him to me.
Looks like it checks out: “Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.” Correspondence with Helen Keller, 1908, in The Correspondence of William James: April 1908–August 1910, Vol. 12, Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2004, page 135, as cited in: Academics in Action!: A Model for Community-engaged Research, Teaching, and Service (New York: Fordham University Press, 2016, page 71) https://archive.org/details/academicsinactio0000unse/page/1/mode/1up
Thank you so much David! I spent a while looking before I commented and I could only find it on ’brainyquotes.com′ and the like.
In this case- I really like that quote- suits the website.