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Quotes About Careful

When you're teaching creative nonfiction, it helps to have written about your life in a very open way, because you can say, 'Look, how much are you willing to risk emotionally to write? How careful can you be with the other people you're writing about?'
~ Marya Hornbacher
It seemed weird calling a teenager 'sir' but I'd learned to be careful with immortals. They tended to get offended easily. Then, they blew stuff up.
~ Rick Riordan
Decades of the seniority rule had conferred influence in the Senate not on men who broke new ground but on men who were careful not to.
~ Robert A. Caro
Be careful of selfish motives. You can mistake them for principles and end up dying for them.
~ Robert Brault
Conoce  a tu presa,  y  elígela con cuidado. No pier- das tiempo en la caza menor: los conejos que caen en la trampa, el visón preso en el cepo perfumado. Desafío es placer.
~ Robert Greene
We all believe we are masters in the realm of opinions and reasoning. You must be careful, then: Learn to demonstrate the correctness of your ideas indirectly.
~ Robert Greene
but we must be careful not to do our enemies' work for them. To argue that to preserve our freedoms we must suspend our freedoms, that to safeguard elections we must cancel elections, that to defend ourselves from dictatorship we must appoint a dictator—what logic is this? We
~ Robert Harris
Eldrith Jhondar, seated at a lapis-inlaid table beneath a hanging on one white-plastered wall, was making careful notes from a tattered manuscript; sometimes she absently cleaned the nib of her pen on the sleeve of her dark wool dress. Marillin
~ Robert Jordan
One must be extremely careful and rigidly logical when dealing with Nature: one logical slip and an entire scientific edifice comes tumbling down. One false deduction about the machine and you can get hung up indefinitely.
~ Robert M. Pirsig
She said we couldn't be too careful what habits we formed and what ideals we acquired in our teens, because by the time we were twenty our characters would be developed and the foundation laid for our whole future life. And she said if the foundation was shaky we could never build anything really worth while on it.
~ L.M. Montgomery
If you're not careful, you run out of time.
~ Laura Dave
If you're not careful, you run out of time.
~ Laura Dave
No matter how careful you are, you can end up pregnant. That's what sex is designed to do, after all. So, never sleep with someone who's mean or stupid, and ugly is a judgment call, because all three may breed true.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
If you howl at the moon and swear on your own blood, anything you desire will be yours. Be careful what you wish for. There's always a catch.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
Surgeons must be very careful When they take the knife! Underneath their fine incisions Stirs the Culprit-Life!
~ Emily Dickinson
The scientist is indistinguishable from the common man in his sense of evidence, except that the scientist is more careful.
~ Willard Van Orman Quine
Because television doesn't offer the kind of budget that a movie offers, you've got to be a little more careful where you spend the money to put the fiction in science.
~ Steven Spielberg
Embryonic stem-cell research requires the destruction of life to create a stem cell. That's why I think we've got to be very careful in balancing the ethics and the science.
~ George W. Bush
He spun out enough toilet paper to vandalize a house and carefully cleaned the seat.
~ Adam Rex
Look before you leap.
~ Aesop
Our minds are susceptible to the influence of external voices telling us what we require to be satisfied, voices that may drown out the faint sounds emitted by our souls and distract us from the careful, arduous task of accurately naming our priorities.
~ Alain de Botton
A good way of evaluating the wisdom of someone's ideas might be to undertake a careful examination of the state of their own mind and health. After all, if their pronouncements were truly worthy of our attention, we should expect that the first person to reap their benefits would be their creator.
~ Alain de Botton
You know what you remind me of," Odile said to them as they scooted into the booth. "Those sneaky co-stars having an on-set affair who are always so careful not to let anyone photograph them together because they don't want the paparazzi to have any material by which to draw inferences." "You know what you remind me of?" Jenny replied coolly. "The paparazzi." Odile: "Touché.
~ Diana Peterfreund
Her thoughts were in turmoil. He was telling her to be careful? But it was too late. She had just met her dear-departed mother's worst nightmare—an unsuitable man.
~ Dinah McCall