#thought

People have always doubted whether I was good enough to play this game at this level. I thought I was, and I thought I could be. What other people thought was really always irrelevant to me. ↗

— Steve Nash

#could #doubted #enough #game #good

The first moments of sleep are an image of death; a hazy torpor grips our thoughts and it becomes impossible for us to determine the exact instant when the "I," under another form, continues the task of existence. ↗

— Gerard De Nerval

#becomes #continues #death #determine #exact

It's important to be precise about words, because of the thought value of them-they frame and shape so much of the way we understand things. ↗

— Michael Nesmith

#because #frame #important #much #precise

When I started out in 1960, I thought it might possibly last a couple of years. I never expected it to last 42. I take great satisfaction in that longevity. ↗

— Bob Newhart

#expected #great #i #last #longevity

The subject must be thought of in terms of the 20th century, of houses he lives in and places he works, in terms of the kind of light the windows in these places let through and by which we see him every day. ↗

— Arnold Newman

#century #day #every #every day #him

It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience. ↗

— John Henry Newman

#conscience #judgment #matters #often #said

Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#even #explanations #mystical #shallow #thought

I have many times thought I did the wrong thing, but the reason was not to be a medical doctor - it was just to have the information. But then, maybe I was wrong, I don't know. ↗

— Lennart Nilsson

#doctor #i #information #just #know

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

— Kwame Nkrumah

#act #action #brought #men #revolutions

If I have been of service, if I have glimpsed more of the nature and essence of ultimate good, if I am inspired to reach wider horizons of thought and action, if I am at peace with myself, it has been a successful day. ↗

— Alex Noble

#am #been #day #essence #good