James Allen
James Allen
Pioneer of magnetospheric research in space whose discovery of the radiation belts encircling the earth helped to further the science of astronomy. He was one of Time Magazine's Man of the Year in 1960.
NationalityBritish
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth7 September 1914
James Allen quotes about
successful roots effort
Fixedness of purpose is the root of all successful efforts.
positive uplifting vision
The dreamers are the saviors of the world.
positive law-of-attraction belief
A person is limited only by the thoughts that he chooses.
yoga self meditation
Thus meditating you will no longer strive to build yourself up in your prejudices, but, forgetting self, you will remember only that you are seeking the Truth.
mind body a-man-thinketh
The body is the servant of the mind. It obeys the operations of the mind, whether they be deliberately chosen or automatically expressed.
simple law world
Good thoughts and actions can never produce bad results; bad thoughts and actions can never produce good results … We understand this law in the natural world, and work with it; but few understand it in the mental and moral world—although its operation there is just as simple and undeviating— and they, therefore, do not cooperate with it.
begin borrowed choice pay
We don't have any choice but to pay it back, but it shouldn't have been borrowed to begin with.
achievement achieves direct fails man result thoughts
All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts
conditions cope flourishes virtue
Where there are difficulties to cope with, and unsatisfactory conditions to overcome, there virtue most flourishes and manifests its glory.
american-author begin enter failure ranks recognize
To begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment.
What we know is the right thing isn't what we often do.
body knew quite though understand
What they knew about the body is quite striking, though they did not always understand it.
altogether art becomes child difficult easy effort extremely form hold ignorance learning letters mind natural painfully pen persistent until vital wrong
When a child is learning to write, it is extremely easy for it to hold the pen wrongly, and to form its letters incorrectly, but it is painfully difficult to hold the pen and to write properly; and this because of the child's ignorance of the art of writing, which can only be dispelled by persistent effort and practice, until at last, it becomes natural and easy to hold the pen properly, and to write correctly, and difficult, as well as altogether unnecessary, to do the wrong thing. It is the same in the vital things of mind and life.