Because everybody always encouraged me to sing, I assumed that I wasn’t bad at it. It felt like it was obvious what I was going to pursue. I thought I was good for as long as I can remember. – Tinashe
The subscriptions were working so well, and on top of that, we saw the success of Netflix and Spotify and thought, ‘We can create a similar kind of experience for books.’ – Trip Adler
Meditation is difficult for many people because their thoughts are always on some distant object or place. One form of meditation is to label the thought as it appears and then choose to let it go. – Wayne Dyer
I never studied directing and I never really thought about doing it, and then I just found myself in that situation and tried it. I like to be observing everything else, and I get self-conscious in front of the camera. – Sofia Coppola
I’ve been at this for 40 years. And, as an academic, I’ve been content with relatively small audiences, with the thought that the audience I long for will find its way eventually to what I have written, provided that what I have written is good enough. – Stephen Greenblatt
When my wife was getting a lease for her Jeep Cherokee, and I saw a Dodge Ram Sport, I thought, ‘Oh wow, it’s amazing.’ – Stipe Miocic
Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought. – Simone Weil
We are like horses who hurt themselves as soon as they pull on their bits – and we bow our heads. We even lose consciousness of the situation, we just submit. Any re-awakening of thought is then painful. – Simone Weil
What I don’t like to hear in music is something has not been thought through: that a sound is just there randomly. I want to make sure that every single little noise that’s in my song is there because it’s supposed to be there. – Zedd
I know the difference between someone coming up to you on the street and saying, ‘Hey, you’re that dude, right. Yes, that’s what I thought,’ and somebody coming up and saying, ‘Big fan of the show. Big fan of that character.’ And that’s nice. You’re out there telling stories, you’re hoping to find an audience, and it’s very appreciated. – Timothy Olyphant
I never contemplated any kind of existence or identity after my career. I never thought at some point the entertainment industry is going to be through with me. And when it first occurred to me that my career was going to cease to be ascendant, then I freaked out. – Steve-O
I’m constantly intimidated by Shakespeare’s work. Trying to decipher what he’s saying and holding on to that thought – not just as an actor, but as a human being – is a rigour. – Zoe Wanamaker
You get on the radio by writing your own songs. But we had the dilemma of not being able to play anywhere because we weren’t able to play anything that anyone wanted to hear. So we learned songs that we thought that we could do without puking. – Wayne Kramer
In Aristotle the mind, regarded as the principle of life, divides into nutrition, sensation, and faculty of thought, corresponding to the inner most important stages in the succession of vital phenomena. – Wilhelm Wundt
I never thought a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland or anywhere else was a good idea. – Todd Rundgren
The thought for a long time was that banks needed to be too controlled, too regulated to be turned over to the Wild West of the Net. Then the credit meltdown hit, and we saw just how reckless these so-called safe and regulated institutions were. – Sarah Lacy
I like being involved with projects that are not only entertaining but are also thought provoking. Either that, or jobs that keep a roof over my head. A mixture of both is always nice. – Tanc Sade
I actually wanted to be an exotic dancer, but that didn’t work out so I thought I’d take on acting. – Sasha Alexander
I remember thinking when I was younger – we used to take holidays to Spain and France, and I just thought I was never going to get further than Spain or France. I really didn’t when I was younger. And then I started auditioning for ‘Narnia,’ and the first thing when I got the part was go straight to New Zealand, halfway around the world. – William Moseley
A lot of things I have turned down ended up being a big embarrassment. Like that script, ‘The Beaver.’ I thought that was one of the worst scripts I had ever read. But everyone said, ‘Ooh it’s on the Black List.’ Yeah, well, good for it. They’re a bunch of idiots. I saw the final film, and there were no surprises. – Terry Zwigoff
So he said ‘I’m going to chop off the bottom of one of your trouser legs and put it in a library.’ I thought ‘That’s a turn-up for the books.’ – Tommy Cooper
It took me 14 years to write poems about Vietnam. I had never thought about writing about it, and in a way I had been systematically writing around it. – Yusef Komunyakaa
Real knowledge, like everything else of value, is not to be obtained easily. It must be worked for, studied for, thought for, and, more that all, must be prayed for. – Thomas Arnold
I’ve always had a fascination for animals. I loved watching them, and even then I thought of them as beings rather than pets. I call it a birth affect! – Tippi Hedren
I actually went to an Oasis concert. I thought they were a brilliant songwriting band. – Tom Stoppard
I thought some of Mrs. White’s material was prophetic. I felt some of her insights were extremely helpful and I regarded her as a sister in the Lord. I wasn’t out to attack Ellen White’s character. – Walter Martin