I Thought Quotes
4829 I Thought quotes by 3227 unique authors
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The next time we met was at Appomattox, and the first thing that General Grant said to me when we stepped inside, placing his hand…
— James Longstreet
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So as I thought about it, the most important "tool" you can have today in business is insatiable curiosity. The minute you lose it, you're…
— Steve Rubel
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I thought I had a great opportunity when I started doing my comic book in 1972. I thought there was so much territory to work…
— Harvey Pekar
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I felt more alone that week than any. Sometimes I'd feel a body lying next to me like an amputee feels a phantom limb. All…
— Harvey Pekar
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The things I thought were so important -- because of the effort I put into them -- have turned out to be of small value.…
— Thomas Merton
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I chose surgery because I thought that perhaps this would make me more like the kind of person I wanted to be.
— Atul Gawande
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My greatest concern was what to call it. I thought of calling it ‘information’, but the word was overly used, so I decided to call…
— Claude Shannon
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Going from PayPal, I thought: 'Well, what are some of the other problems that are likely to most affect the future of humanity?' Not from…
— Elon Musk
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I thought about how easily we are all brainwashed by our society and culture to stop thinking and just assume by default that more money…
— Tony Hsieh
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If I thought you weren't my friend, I just don't think I could bear it.
— Doc Holliday
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I thought in this country, the best social program was a job. Yet minimum wage jobs arent paying enough to keep families out of poverty
— Barbara Mikulski
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My friend George and I were walking on the beach in Norfolk, and there were thousands of [razor-clam] shells. They were so beautiful, I thought…
— Alexander McQueen
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I know I had been successful in football. I had been successful in broadcasting. I didn't think that anything could touch me. I thought, I…
— Pat Summerall
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One can learn anything, anything at all, I thought, if provided by a gifted and passionate teacher.
— Pat Conroy
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But my mom was a pianist, and she taught piano out of her house. I was just so excited, being a little kid and having…
— Vanessa Carlton
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In the place where I was a child, there were no artists and there was no art, so I really didn't know what that meant.…
— Jasper Johns
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I quit because I can’t stand seeing kids come to class hungry and needing shoes. I thought I could do more by organizing farm workers…
— Dolores Huerta
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I wanted to project myself forward to age 80 and say, ‘OK, I’m looking back on my life. I want to minimise the number of…
— Jeff Bezos
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Do you ever look at the sky and think, I'm glad I'm alive? After I heard System of a Down, I thought, I'm actually alive…
— Noel Gallagher
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Taxi drivers used to ask me what kind of music I did and I'd say, well, it's kind of jazz, soul, classical - but that…
— Laura Mvula
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I was doing political cartoons and getting angry to the point where I felt I was going to have to start making and throwing bombs.…
— Terry Gilliam
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I thought that was a pretty stupid argument, really, because it's the final product that matters. The look of the film, however it's done, is…
— Roger Deakins
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When the Mac first came out, Newsweek asked me what I [thought] of it. I said: Well, it's the first personal computer worth criticizing. So…
— Alan Kay
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Once again, God to all glory, because I didnt feel one thing. I didnt hurt it one time. I actually argued with my equipment staff…
— Ray Lewis
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But nothing really clicked for me until I gave up completely on hitting the overlap and just did what I loved, even when I thought…
— Steven Pressfield
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