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Quotes About Careful

Drama demands the reversal of expectation, but in such a way that the first surprise is followed by an immediate recognition of inevitability. And inevitability takes careful pin-setting.
~ Wallace Stegner
If we are serious about peace, then we must work for it as ardently, seriously, continuously, carefully, and bravely as we have ever prepared for war.
~ Wendell Berry
I think we must be careful about too easily accepting, or being too easily grateful for, sacrifices made by others, especially if we have made none ourselves.
~ Wendell Berry
To learn your artistry and to be able to perfect that, is overwhelming. Especially when you are exuding love. The human emotion is a very delicate thing, so you have to be careful about how you present it because it can be kind of scary, or too overwhelming if you're not careful. So I try to just keep it love.
~ Whitney Houston
Love is sublime, truly, a precious gift. But also, alas, one of God's little pranks. It's naive of you to confuse love with happiness, as if they were somehow the samae thing. In fact love, once found, is more akin to gravity: too strong, too close, and it will crush you. Unless you're careful, always.
~ Wil McCarthy
SPEAKING OF COGNITIVE EASE "Let's not dismiss their business plan just because the font makes it hard to read." "We must be inclined to believe it because it has been repeated so often, but let's think it through again." "Familiarity breeds liking. This is a mere exposure effect." "I'm in a very good mood today, and my System 2 is weaker than usual. I should be extra careful.
~ Daniel Kahneman
System 2 also is capable of a more systematic and careful approach to evidence, and of following a list of boxes that must be checked before making a decision
~ Daniel Kahneman
In most situations, a direct comparison makes people more careful and more logical. But not always. Sometimes intuition beats logic even when the correct answer stares you in the face.
~ Daniel Kahneman
He would be painstaking in his approach, meticulous. For there was nothing more dangerous, he thought, than a patient man.
~ Daniel Silva
one needed to be careful what one wished for.
~ Daniel Silva
He was so diplomatic he hardly spoke at all...
~ Dave Duncan
Your job when working around your flock is to move and work in a way that does not startle them or make them feel they are about to be devoured.
~ Dave Holderread
Good food cannot be made of inferior ingredients masked with high flavor. It is true thrift to use the best ingredients available and to waste nothing. If you use the best butter, eggs, cream, meat, and other ingredients, and use them carefully and wisely, you will have less waste than if you search for bargains end up with a full garbage pail.
~ JAMES BEARD
Shouldn't someone give a pep talk or something?" Minho asked, pulling Thomas's attention away from Alby. "Go ahead," Newt replied. Minho nodded and faced the crowd. "Be careful," he said dryly. "Don't die.
~ James Dashner
Thomas knew he had to be careful. It was strange that she only agreed with him about WICKED now that she'd gotten her memories back.
~ James Dashner
Be careful," he said dryly. "Don't die.
~ James Dashner
Be careful, don't die
~ James Dashner
take details from "real life" into fiction and make them believable requires careful work: creating characters the reader can believe would do the unbelievable and setting up a scene where those events make some kind of sense.
~ Dorothy Allison
He had been as careful as he knew how to be, but it had not been enough because he too had been hurt, by a loss he could afford less than Richard.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
Pleased to meet you, I'm sure," he observed as he sniffed round our ankles. "Excuse the noise, won't you, but I have my job to do. Got to be careful who we let in, you know. But it's a dull life and I'm really quite pleased to see a visitor. Dogs of your own, I fancy?
~ Agatha Christie
We had reached Leastways Cottage, and Poirot ushered me upstairs to his own room. He offered me one of the tiny Russian cigarettes he himself occasionally smoked. I was amused to notice that he stowed away the used matches most carefully in a little china pot. My momentary annoyance vanished.
~ Agatha Christie
we've got to be careful. We've got to get there slowly.
~ Agatha Christie
It should also be noted that the first encounter may be a failure, if loveplay is not known. The man must be more careful than the woman in the act of copulation, since he does not know how to restrain himself, while the woman is always hesitant. The responsibility lies with both.
~ Alain Daniélou
I have always had this mentality because I hated to break anything on the car.
~ Alain Prost