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Quotes About Thoughtful

She was still an assistant and like assistants all over corporate America, but especially in Hollywood, orderly women like Nevin and Goldstein were quite accustomed to invisibly supplying the warm, personal touch on behalf of their bosses. Thousands of gifts and notes were passed back and forth by powerful people who didn't have a clue that they were being so very thoughtful.
~ Julie Salamon
Nature is like a wild animal that you have trained to work for you. So long as you are vigilant and walk warily with thought and care, so long will it give you its aid; but look away for an instant, be heedless or forgetful, and it has you by the throat.
~ Kamala Markandaya
The truth is, words are never accidental.
~ Karen Ehman
Contrary to our metaphors, humans are much more imitative than the other apes. For example: if chimps watch a demonstration on how to get food out of a puzzle box, they, in their turn, skip any unnecessary steps, go straight to the treat. Human children overimitate, reproducing each step regardless of its necessity. There is some reason why, now that it's our behavior, being slavishly imitative is superior to being thoughtful and efficient, but I forget exactly what that reason is.
~ Karen Joy Fowler
She was so quiet, but she noticed everything. Her eyes tracked the world like it was a book written in a language she could not understand
~ Karin Slaughter
his chair again. He pulled at his mustache. "Well, I wish I could
~ Karin Slaughter
I attract a different kind of boy when my hair's red. I get more quality men - like a more thoughtful, nerdy dude.
~ Kirsten Dunst
There was a thoughtful frown on the face of the man who was the possessor of twenty million dollars.
~ Eleanor Porter
George Harrison is one of the sweetest, kindest and most considerate men I know.
~ Al Aronowitz
But no thoughtful man's life is uninteresting or devoid of marvels. A sincere life cannot be empty of memorable occurrences.
~ Charles Spurgeon
The trouble with men of sense is that they are so dreadfully in earnest all the while.
~ Christian Nestell Bovee
A man of sense may be in haste, but can never be in a hurry.
~ Lord Chesterfield
I wanted to do something nice so I bought my mother-in-law a chair. Now they won't let me plug it in.
~ Henny Youngman
Well-behaved: he always speaks as if his mother might be listening.
~ Mason Cooley
My mother always bought our birthday gifts.
~ Bruce Eric Kaplan
Most fears cannot withstand the test of careful scrutiny and analysis. When we expose our fears to the light of thoughtful examination they usually just evaporate.
~ Jack Canfield
Working hard, and being thoughtful, and generous, and smart; it's a path to a better life.
~ Ashton Kutcher
I'm the sort of person who keeps a lot to myself.
~ Patrick Rafter
If you think my music is sentimental and self-absorbed, I agree with you.
~ James Taylor
Since we astronomers are priests of the highest God in regard to the book of nature, it befits us to be thoughtful, not of the glory of our minds, but rather, above all else, of the glory of God.
~ Johannes Kepler
This may come as a surprise, given the nature of my job, but I am very guarded and contemplative. I'm not a naturally boisterous person.
~ Ed Helms
Cigar smoking by it's very nature is much more reflective than interactive.
~ Michael Douglas
Designs of purely arbitrary nature cannot be expected to last long.
~ Kenzo Tange
It is my nature to thin where others read.
~ Thomas Sydenham