Quotes About Thoughtfulness

An educated man ... is thoroughly inoculated against humbug, thinks for himself and tries to give his thoughts, in speech or on paper, some style.

When you have nothing important or interesting to say, don't let anyone persuade you to say it.

I like fruit baskets because it gives you the ability to mail someone a piece of fruit without appearing insane. Like, if someone just mailed you an apple you'd be like, 'huh? What the hell is this?' But if it's in a fruit basket you're like, 'this is nice!'

I aspire to make a record that sounds better 10 listens in than it does after two, and still, at 50 listens, you're picking out things that add a depth and a thoughtfulness to it; there's enough in there that you can still be extracting pieces out of it.

The hand should not necessarily be the quickest organ in one's body when one is writing.

I like buying people little things, not flooding them with money, trying to win them.

I've always cared that you're comfortable in what you're wearing.

I'm always careful in generalising things.

Certain times, I'll choose my words very carefully and maybe come off a little more boring.

I never want anyone to have a bad evening because I caused it.

I censor myself all the time.

When I get thinking, I get very knotted up. I chew things over a lot and take things quite seriously.

I think we have to be very careful how we treat people, even when we are supposedly trying to help them.

It's a ridiculously expensive time of year and if you buy something that you've guessed at and it's not right, what a waste of money. Far better to ask. And if you do it with three or four weeks to go, by the time it comes to Christmas you've forgotten about it - so it's a lovely surprise.

She thought. It was nice to watch her thinking. She still had her legs crossed, and still carelessly.

I like walking because it is slow, and I suspect that the mind, like the feet, works at about three miles an hour. If this is so, then modern life is moving faster than the speed of thought or thoughtfulness.

He had entered some state of grace—but one that did not exclude. He made you feel you were his co-thinker, even if you said nothing.

True love, to me, is when she's the first thought that goes through your head when you wake up and the last thought that goes through your head before you go to sleep.

Danach folgte eine Haarbürste. »Für Mädchen«, sagte er. »Pink mit Glitter.« »Du kennst mich so gut.«

Presents are the best way to show someone how much you care. It is like this tangible thing that you can point to and say, Hey man, I love you this many dollars-worth.

A resignation is a grave act; never performed by a right-minded man without forethought or with reserve.

Foolish, ignorant people indulge in careless lives, whereas a clever man guards his attention as his most precious possession.

I knew a wise man that had it for a by-word, when he saw men hasten to a conclusion, "Stay a little, that we may make an end the sooner."

Kindly words, sympathizing attentions, watchfulness against wounding men's sensitiveness-these cost very little, but they are priceless in their value.