#thought

They gave me the chaps and hat and everything. I looked like a real cowboy. I walked around the rodeo and thought, I am a real cowboy and thought everyone thought I was a real cowboy. ↗

— Michael Biehn

#around #chaps #cowboy #everyone #everything

Some care is needed in using Descartes' argument. "I think, therefore I am" says rather more than is strictly certain. It might seem as though we are quite sure of being the same person to-day as we were yesterday, and this is no doubt true in some sense. But the real Self is as hard to arrive at as the real table, and does not seem to have that absolute, convincing certainty that belongs to particular experiences. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#continuity #descartes #existence #existentialism #experience

Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#forethought #may #undoubtedly

Until I really accepted this about myself and got over any of my own transphobia that I had, I really felt like I wouldn't be accepted. I thought I would ruin my life. ↗

— Chastity Bono

#accepted #any #felt #got #had

Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought. ↗

— Napoleon Hill

#education #effort #get #struggle #thought

When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and manly thoughts, seek for no other test of its excellence. It is good, and made by a good workman. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#excellence #good #inspires #made #manly

Even when I wasn't overweight I was never one of those girls or women who wanted to look nice. I always thought it wasn't important. ↗

— Jo Brand

#even #i #i always #important #look

I remember when Victoria Wood started to come through, and I thought she was great, though she and I are very different in our approach. ↗

— Jo Brand

#come #different #great #i #i remember

Those who live by the sea can hardly form a single thought of which the sea would not be part. ↗

— Hermann Broch

#hardly #live #part #sea #single

The great art of films does not consist of descriptive movement of face and body but in the movements of thought and soul transmitted in a kind of intense isolation. ↗

— Louise Brooks

#body #consist #descriptive #does #face