 | Howard Vicenté Knox - 1914 - 134 ページ
...strict sense] implies. The essential achievement of the will, in short, when it is most ' voluntary,' is to attend to a difficult object and hold it fast before the mind. The so-doing is the fiat; and it is a mere physiological incident that when the object is thus attended... | |
 | William McDougall - 1916 - 460 ページ
...it tends more strongly to issue in movement We may therefore follow Professor James when he asserts that " the essential achievement of the will is to...difficult object and hold it fast before the mind," and, again, that "effort of attention is thus the essential phenomenon of will." In the special case in... | |
 | Harrison Meredith Tipsword - 1916 - 268 ページ
...of will. James said, "The essential achievement of the will, in short, when it is most 'voluntary,' is to attend to a difficult object and hold it fast before the mind." The will may hold attention to the truth till mental seeing results and mental assent is compelled,... | |
 | Ramacharaka - 1917 - 308 ページ
...effort." Prof. James has said : " The essential achievement of the Will, when it is most voluntary, is to attend to a difficult object, and hold it fast before the mind. Effort of Attention is the essential phenomenon of the Will." And Prof. Halleck says : " The first... | |
 | William Temple - 1922 - 512 ページ
...make of this declaration ? — " The essential achievement of the will, when it is most ' voluntary,' is to attend to a difficult object and hold it fast before the mind. . . . Effort of attention is thus the essential phenomenon of will. . . . The terminus of the psychological... | |
 | William McDougall - 1921 - 440 ページ
...it tends more strongly to issue in movement. We may therefore follow Professor James when he asserts that "the essential achievement of the will is to...difficult object and hold it fast before the mind," and, again, that "effort of attention is thus the -essential phenomenon of will." In the special case in... | |
 | Thomas Kendrick Slade - 1923 - 200 ページ
...upon the development of the conceptual capacity. William James expresses himself in such phrases as, " The essential achievement of the will is to attend...difficult object and hold it fast before the mind," or, in describing a moral action, " It consists in the effort of attention by which we hold fast to... | |
 | William Boothby Selbie - 1924 - 330 ページ
...different order ?' l In his further exposition Professor McDougall agrees with James when he asserts that 'the essential achievement of the will is to...difficult object and hold it fast before the mind'. Volition is thus an effort of attention. It works partly through inhibition, for the process of holding... | |
 | William Boothby Selbie - 1924 - 334 ページ
...exposition Professor McDougall agrees with I James when he asserts that ' the essential achievement of jthe will is to attend to a difficult object and hold it fast before the mind '. Volition is thus an effort of attention. It works partly through inhibition, for the process of... | |
 | Arthur Holmes - 1924 - 246 ページ
...James states it thus: "The essential achievement of the will, in short, when it is most 'voluntary' is to attend to a difficult object and hold it fast before the mind." In other words, simply pay attention to the "work" we have to do, and pay attention so intently that... | |
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The essential achievement of the will, in short, when it is most 'voluntary' ', is to attend to a difficult object and hold it fast before the mind. 
