Thought Quotes

I worked in the NHS as a hospital orderly during my national service, and people thought it was a noble service. But over the years it's lost its humanity.

The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after.

At first, I didn't realize it was gonna be a character. I just thought I was gonna be doing me.

I never thought for a second that anything I ever did was going to make someone cringe. That never occurred to me.

Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought.

No one was more shocked or angry than I was when we didn't find the weapons. I had a sickening feeling every time I thought about it. I still do.

We feel that there are so many kids who need adopting. We thought we'd do it after having a couple of our own, but we just changed our mind.

You must not under any pretense allow your mind to dwell on any thought that is not positive, constructive, optimistic, kind.

Sometimes all you need is just for somebody to believe in you in order to be able to accomplish maybe what you never thought you could.

Do you remember when you were 10 or 11 years old and you really thought your folks were the best? They were completely omniscient and you took their word for everything. And then you got older and you went through this hideous age when suddenly they were the devil, they were bullies, and they didn't know anything.

I'm a big advocate of freedom: freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom of thought.

Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

I always thought I could do a good job coaching, but the opportunities have not presented themselves.

Revolutions are brought about by men, by men who think as men of action and act as men of thought.

I thought about going to NYU film school - that was this ideal to me. But I didn't make any kind of grades in high school.

Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority.

Human beings want to be free and however long they may agree to stay locked up, to stay oppressed, there will come a time when they say 'That's it.' Suddenly they find themselves doing something that they never would have thought they would be doing, simply because of the human instinct that makes them turn their face towards freedom.

I thought it completely absurd to mention my name in the same breath as the presidency.

A great tennis career is something that a 15-year-old normally doesn't have. I hope my example helps other teens believe they can accomplish things they never thought possible.

Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did.

I don't have a problem believing in God and Jesus. But in Genesis one has to wonder about these sentences that just go on and end without finishing. The thought is unfinished. Where did Adam go? What is he doing? Hello? There has to be some pages missing.

I have always thought of myself as a Czechoslovak Catholic.

I will always believe in love, but my idea has changed from what I've always thought.

This is slavery, not to speak one's thought.

Be unselfish. That is the first and final commandment for those who would be useful and happy in their usefulness. If you think of yourself only, you cannot develop because you are choking the source of development, which is spiritual expansion through thought for others.

I don't think I ever thought of myself as Superman. But there were people who thought of me that way, and maybe I believed them a little.

I never thought about getting any tattoos removed.

The thought of dancing scared me. A lot. Because I have absolutely no aptitude for it.

Students never think it can be the teacher's fault and so I thought I was stupid. I was frustrated and would come home and cry because I couldn't do it. Then we got a new teacher who made math accessible. That made all the difference and I learned that it's how you present it that makes it scary or friendly.

In high school, a teacher once suggested that I be a math major in college. I thought, 'Me? You've got to be joking!' I mean, in junior high, I used to come home and cry because I was so afraid of my math homework. Seriously, I was terrified of math.