Thought Quotes

Thought before word. Never word before thought.

As long as there's life, there's hope.

I think a power to do something is of value. Whether the result is a good thing or a bad thing depends on how it is used, but the power is a value.

Do I like being thought of as attractive? I don't know anyone on Earth who doesn't, but I do find it funny.

I've no interest in being thought provoking. Who needs more thoughts. I'd rather go down as one who is thought disposing.

The secret to success is to subjugate your ego and serve others.

The function of abundance is not to possess things but to use them and gather experiences.

Do what you do best, and outsource the rest.

Politics is the art of achieving prestige and power without merit.

It's only a drop in the ocean - but the ocean wouldn't be the same without that drop.

Your good is happening right now, even as you accept this statement of truth.

Marketers know - no matter how deep the emotional connection or brand loyalty - when a product does not perform, rational thought overtakes emotion, and most consumers make a new choice.

Clearness is the ornament of deep thought.

I want to show people as they are, not glorified, no shame - fat, bulges, wrinkles and all. I want the work to be disturbing, unsettling, provocative, challenging, and thought provoking.

We would do well to ask ourselves the kind of fundamental questions posed by [Buruma's] erudite and thought-provoking book.

I have also been touched by the dark side of power and leadership.

When I have listened to my mistakes, I have grown.

I'm terrified beyond the capacity for rational thought.

Happiness lies not in happiness but only in the attempt to achieve it.

I've never felt a need to really respond to someone else's writing.

Simplicity is about clarity of thought and being willing to stay in a problem long enough to come to a solution, though it could be right in front of you.

You have to climb to reach a deep thought.

Doubt is the freedom of thought. Any claim to truth can be doubted.

We must be careful not to discourage our twelve-year-olds by making them waste the best years of their lives preparing for examinations.

I thought that being popular in school was just so pathetic. I knew I had a future over and beyond the horizon of that school.

Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.

What was once thought can never be unthought.

Because the eye has seen, thoughts are structured upon images and not upon ideas.

I think since I was kid people told me that they thought I was funny.

I remember watching Gilda Radner when I was a kid and everyone thought she was so funny and no one ever said that she was a funny woman, she was just funny.

When I came into politics I always thought there was a possibility I would be killed.

I thought to spend my declining years writing poetry and teaching - but that won't pay the Bergdorf's bill. I think I'll move to somewhere life is cheaper.

People who cannot distinguish between good and bad language, or who regard the distinction as unimportant, are unlikely to think carefully about anything else.

We must think things not words, or at least we must constantly translate our words into the facts for which they stand, if we are to keep to the real and the true.

With a philosophy education, one can infuriate his peers, intimidate his date, think of obscure, unreliable ways to make money, and never regret a thing.

I always thought of myself as a moderate liberal, a fighter for peace and justice. I never thought of myself as being all that far out.

Religions, themselves, are (intellectual) blasphemies.

If it is a new thought to you that gratitude brings your whole mind into closer harmony with the creative energies of the universe, consider it well, and you will see that it is true.

If you start embracing life's storms instead of hiding away from them, you'll stop fearing them all together; it is this way one becomes immovable.

Supporting customers through multiple channels is no longer an option for financial services organizations; it's a necessity.

Sell your presence and purchase bewilderment.

You will find God in the church of your choice.

Between repetition and forgetting, it is a marvel that a new thought ever struggles into existence.

I wanted to kill art for myself.. ..a new thought for that object.

The minute we begin to think we have all the answers, we forget the questions.

Sometimes you have to be lucky, but I always say that to be lucky, you have to fight for it.

the fundamental right of freedom of thought and expression is essential. If you curtail what the other fellow says and does, you curtail what you yourself may say and do.

Reason like science, grows by way of mutual criticism; the only possible way of planning its growth is to develop those institutions that safeguard. the freedom of thought

Quality requires your Presence.

A train of thought is never false. The falsehood lies deep in the necessities of existence.