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Quotes About Carefully

If you surround yourself with people who support your upward aim, they will not tolerate your cynicism and destructiveness. They will instead encourage you when you do good for yourself and others and punish you carefully when you do not.
~ Jordan B. Peterson
IF OLD MEMORIES STILL UPSET YOU, WRITE THEM DOWN CAREFULLY AND COMPLETELY
~ Jordan B. Peterson
So, if you are respectful of the rule, and conscious of its importance, and realize that it serves as a bulwark against the chaos of the unknown, and you still decide to break it, carefully, because the particularities of the circumstances demand it – well, then, more power to you. If you are just a careless, ignorant, antisocial narcissist instead, however, then look out. You break a rule at your peril, whether you know it or not.
~ Jordan B. Peterson
The fact is that everything I have in my pockets is carefully chosen so I'll always be prepared. Everything is there so I can be at an advantage at the moment of truth. Actually, that's not accurate. Everything's there so I won't be at a disadvantage at the moment of truth.
~ Etgar Keret
In writing a weird story, I always try very carefully to achieve the right mood and atmosphere and place the emphasis where it belongs.
~ H. P. Lovecraft
Embi: And you're supposed to be so good at mending primuses, pastor Jón! Pastor Jón: And correspondingly bad at Baroque art. Embi: How do you know there are 133 pieces? Who has had time to dismantle this work of art so carefully? Or to count the bits? Pastor Jón: No one is so busy that he hasn't the time to dismantle a work of art. Then scholars wake up and count the pieces.
~ Halldor Laxness
Take the time and do some small thing that will be noticed and remembered. Choose your objects carefully, and buy only what you love.
~ Charlotte Moss
In our joy, we think we hear a whisper. At first it is too soft. Then only half heard. We listen carefully as it gathers strength. We hear a sweetness. The word is Peace. It is loud now. Louder than the explosion of bombs.
~ Maya Angelou
If you listen carefully, you can hear these things. If you look carefully, you'll see what you're after
~ Haruki Murakami
The situation of the Old Left was the theory of Socialist Realism, etc. It seemed pointless to argue. We stayed carefully away from people who wrote for the New Masses.
~ George Oppen
It is a glorious privilege to be attending this, the greatest university in all the world... take a good look and carefully analyze, and when you take the important points and sum them up, you come out with this final thought: Brigham Young University is the greatest university in the world.
~ Spencer W. Kimball
The truth may not set you free, but used carefully, it can confuse the hell out of your enemies.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton, Micah
I don't really think about what's 'age appropriate' for my audience because I think they can handle quite a bit, but I do try to think about what's honest and true to my characters who have grown up in situations where they've been taught to handle these things very carefully and that they're very powerful.
~ Veronica Roth
Then I can write slowly, re-writing each chapter, carefully with a subtle structured style. If I can ever find a subtle structured style.
~ Sylvia Plath
Their homeopathic letters, Envelopes full of carefully broken glass To lodge behind your eyes so you would see
~ Ted Hughes
map. He had taken Morenz carefully through both rendezvous with Pankratin in the East, shown him the latest photograph of the Soviet general and explained that the man would be
~ Frederick Forsyth
I know within my organization, within the grassroots of my organization of the Tea Party movement generally, there's going to be a big drive for impeaching Obama. I don't know if that's the right move... We need to play our cards very carefully and beware of the mouse trap that Obama might be trying to set for us.
~ Niger Innis
Everything that's damned is my business," he leered. "You ought to pick your words more carefully, Castor. Words are the birds that break cover and show your enemy where you're hiding.
~ Mike Carey
Nobody spends somebody else's money as carefully as he spends his own. Nobody uses somebody else's resources as carefully as he uses his own. So if you want efficiency and effectiveness, if you want knowledge to be properly utilized, you have to do it through the means of private property.
~ Milton Friedman
While lashing out against an insult can provide a certain gratification, a long-anticipated and carefully planned revenge is far more satisfying. —DIRECTEUR JOSEPH VENPORT, private conversation with his wife, Cioba
~ Brian Herbert
We live our lives hiding from the things that displease and discomfort us. We reinvent ourselves and our history, constantly placing things in a light most favorable to us. It is in the nature of mankind to do this. Mostly, our deceptions are small ones. But they gather weight through numbers, and having them revealed all at once can be crushing. As well, there are larger truths that, exposed, seem more than we can bear, and so we hide them most carefully.
~ Terry Brooks
It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.
~ Vladimir Lenin
There's something to be said for a disregard of fashion, but it has to be a carefully curated disregard. It works best, I think, on someone under 18. After the age of, say, 40, you can end up looking like a bag lady.
~ Leon Max
For the loss of those we have loved there is no alleviation but time and carefully and rationally chosen diversions such as will not cause our heart to reproach us.
~ Georg Christoph Lichtenberg