Michel Thomas quotes

“What you understand, you know; and what you know, you don't forget.”
-- Michel Thomas

Source : "Speak French with Michel Thomas", Disc 1, 2000.

#Forget Quotes

“All stress inhibits true and effective learning.”
-- Michel Thomas

Source : "Speak French with Michel Thomas" by Michel Thomas, Disc 1, March 29, 2001.

#Stress Quotes

“If you give yourself that short little moment of thinking, then you cannot miss it.”
-- Michel Thomas

Source : "Speak French with Michel Thomas" by Michel Thomas, Disc 3, March 29, 2001.

#Thinking Quotes #Giving Quotes #Missing Quotes

“If you know how to handle the verbs, you know how to handle the language. Everything else is just vocabulary.”
-- Michel Thomas

Source : "Speak French with Michel Thomas" by Michel Thomas, Disc 5, March 29, 2001.

#Vocabulary Quotes #Verbs Quotes #Language Quotes

“Even if you forget that´s not the same as if it never happened. The slate is not entirely wiped clean; you can´t reclaim the person you were beforehand; your state of innocence is not there to be retrieved.”

“I couldn't forget. I couldn't break. She had the power to break me. No one had ever been given that power, ever.”

“The one word you should forget when you start a new project is the word 'I' - you need to replace that word 'I' with the idea of 'everybody else.”

“In a thousand years we shall all forget The things that trouble us now.”

Source : Adam Lindsay Gordon, Marcus Andrew Hislop Clarke (1911). “Poems: A.H. Massina”

“Maybe some are so busy waiting, they forget what indescribable beauty is right there in front of them.”

“Never forget that it is the spirit with which you endow your work that makes it useful or futile.”

Source : Adelaide Rosalia Hasse (1919). “The Compensations of Librarianship”

“I willingly speak to those who know, but for those who do not know I forget.”

“Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.”

“You know, London is so sprawling, and you can sometimes forget that anybody else is on a stage anywhere else.”

“In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself.”