Quotes About Thoughtfulness

No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.

It wasn't an unusual thing for her to keep her thoughts to herself. She had that Quaker habit. Quiet contemplation, she call[ed] it. I got to like it myself, listening to the world without making any noise to add to it.

The kind of life I want is to be a person who would get a personal note every day.

At no time do I come from a cynical point of view. I'm coming from a concerned point of view.

SQL, Lisp, and Haskell are the only programming languages that I've seen where one spends more time thinking than typing.

They've just gone over the line in my opinion, and again, there's a proper time for a pat down, there's a proper time for an advanced technology body search, but it has to be done with some thought.

But anyone with the time and the inclination can acquire technical proficiency. To achieve greatness, though, that requires artistry. That requires imagination and thoughtfulness.

Wasn't this the man who had made hot-water bottles for me every month when I got my period

Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree.

I admit I still recoil against a society that has so slipped in caring that ordinary human sharing and thoughtfulness appears to warrant ahumanitarian award and diligent effort seems too often the exception rather than the rule.

You're right not to talk. It's a sort of higher honesty, I think. Once you start talking, there's no telling what you'll say.

Kindly intentioned, but not considerate.

You're right not to talk. It's sort of a higher honesty, I think. Once you start talking, there's no telling what you'll say.

And I gave you some of those chocolate cupcakes with the squiggle of white frosting across the top. I buy those for your mother because she loved them and won't buy them for herself.

I pride myself on not making people's experience shittier.

I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.

Deberían dejarse guiar más por la razón».

Moreover, it frequently happens with men that they fail to analyse these things, and do not make out for themselves any clear definition of what their feelings are or what they mean. We hear that a man has behaved badly to a girl, when the behaviour of which he has been guilty has resulted simply from want of thought.

El sabio no dice todo lo que piensa, pero siempre piensa todo lo que dice.

Wise men speak when they have something to say, fools speak because they have to say something

I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge which might be useful to him gets crowded out, or at best is jumbled up with a lot of other things so that he has a difficulty in laying his hands upon it. Now the skilful workman is very careful indeed as to what he takes into his brain-attic.

Good morning—through in a minute—I'll leave the tub filled for you

Ready-made phrases and the ritual of etiquette were unknown to him; his thoughtfulness was pure improvisation, and it resembled the little inventions affection inspires.

A party like this isn't about the surprise factor. It's about someone going to so much trouble that it just... overwhelms you.