Pythagoras Quotes

Thought is an Idea in transit, which when once released, never can be lured back, nor the spoken word recalled.

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• When I was around eight, I learned how to touch-type at school, and I received a computer as a present. I started writing plays, and for many years I thought I would be a playwright.

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
  • Writing
  • School
  • Present

• I thought that I'd have a briefcase-and-power-suit career.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Power
  • Career
  • Thought

• I had no trouble going from radio to TV - I just thought of TV as radio with pictures.

  

  Larry King
  • Thought
  • Trouble
  • Radio

• I got to the big leagues when I was 20. I thought I had it all figured out. Went to spring training that next year and started off well, got sent down, and I pouted pretty much all of 2000. And it wasn't the right way to handle it.

  

  Vernon Wells
  • Pretty
  • Training
  • Thought

• Cancer has taught me a lot of things. Maybe it is the best thing that has happened to me. I can't say right now, but maybe some years down the line, I would realise. When I was taking chemotherapy, there were a lot of elderly patients, and that would inspire me. I thought, 'If they can be cured, why can't I be?'

  

  Yuvraj Singh
  • Why
  • Best
  • Thought

• Some people thought I'd be on the PGA Tour, that I'd win tournaments, play in majors, contend in majors, win majors. I thought they were crazy.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • People
  • Crazy
  • Thought

• Because of where I come from, I never thought I'd see in my life a black candidate running for President.

  

  Samuel L. Jackson
  • Life
  • Black
  • Running

• I studied communications, only because I could get my own show on the campus radio station. I never thought of it as a career. Music was always a really passionate hobby - it was like collecting DVDs or stamps.

  

  Kaskade
  • Music
  • Career
  • Never

• My first thought is always of light.

  

  Galen Rowell
  • Light
  • Always
  • Thought

• Murderers, in general, are people who are consistent, people who are obsessed with one idea and nothing else.

  

  Ugo Betti
  • People
  • Idea
  • Nothing

• I thought I knew there was a God. I always acknowledged that, but at the same time, I didn't live by those laws.

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • Time
  • God
  • Live

• A couple of my friends started having babies, and I thought, 'Maybe one day, with the right guy.' I have to find the guy first.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Friends
  • Guy
  • Day

• When you start putting too much thought into it, the music starts getting too revealing. You don't need to know all my inner thoughts.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Music
  • Thoughts
  • Thought

• At 14, I'd have given my left arm to be a boy: I thought I was horrible and that no-one would ever find me attractive.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Me
  • Boy
  • Thought

• Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Action
  • Thought
  • Human

• While teaching a course on global development at Uppsala University in Sweden, I realized our students didn't have a fact-based worldview. They talked about 'we' and 'them.' They thought there were two groups of countries: the Western world, with small families and long lives, and the Third World, with large families and short lives.

  

  Hans Rosling
  • World
  • Long
  • Small

• Every child is a thought in the mind of God, and our task is to recognize this thought and help it toward completion.

  

  Eberhard Arnold
  • God
  • Mind
  • Help

• Getting older doesn't bother me. When I was 30, I thought I should have achieved more, but you get more comfortable and think it's time to stop putting pressure on yourself.

  

  Natasha Little
  • Time
  • Stop
  • Thought

• I wore goofy hats to school and did musical theater. Most people thought I was a dork. But if you have a sense of humor about it, no one can bring you down.

  

  Zac Efron
  • People
  • School
  • Thought

• People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • People
  • Goals
  • Succeed

• Things base and vile, holding no quantity, Love can transpose to form and dignity. Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. Nor hath Love's mind of any judgment taste; Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Mind
  • Eye
  • Judgment

• I can't really comment on rumors.

  

  Larry Page
  • Really
  • Rumors
  • Comment

• I think, for an actor, the whole world is a place of work because if you focus on characters and on stories, they are everywhere, so yeah, I feel very privileged to have had this great opportunities in the international cinema and especially in the American cinema.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • World
  • Work
  • Great

• Thought is an Idea in transit, which when once released, never can be lured back, nor the spoken word recalled.

  

  Pythagoras
  • Thought
  • Idea
  • Transit