Quotes About Deliberate

Let no act be done without a purpose, nor otherwise than according to the perfect principles of art.

Let nothing be done rashly, and at random, but all things according to the most exact and perfect rules of art.

No random actions, none not based on underlying principles.

To undertake nothing: i. at random or without a purpose; ii. for any reason but the common good.

No pointless actions.

that no one does the wrong thing deliberately;

I planned my death carefully, unlike my life, which meandered along from one thing to another, despite my feeble attempts to control it.

The pile of stones thus marks both an act of deliberate remembrance, and an act of deliberate forgetting. They're fond of paradox in that region.

Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you cannot understand at the time.

It takes deliberate and continuous effort to carve out time in our overfull schedules to listen to the voice of God.

It was the first time I'd heard her voice, and I saw the deliberate brave calm of her blanched face, the wind making her eyes tear, though she herself remained staunch.

I spiraled slowly down the steps, the soft way a milkweed seed sometimes twirls to earth. I wanted time for any vague thought to come to mind that mind should want. No new ones came, but the pace seemed a meditative winding, and what I was winding was like yarn on an oblong skein, softly enfolding a quiet center that was myself.

He could not change his nature, could not help being cautious, deliberate, introspective, not traits to be scorned by any means, but traits that seemed dull, bland—even to him—when compared with Davydd's hell-for-leather dazzle.

The best way to make room for both life and career is to make choices deliberately-to set limits and stick to them.

To you to live a significant life, you have to become intentional.

The greatest enemy of the truth is very often not the lie--delierate, contrived, and dishonest, but the myth persistent, peruasive, and unrealistic. Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie--deliberate, contrived and dishonest--but the myth--persistant, persuasive and unrealistic.

What is different about meditation and a number of other practices like talk therapy or exercise or sound nutrition is that we are deliberately shaping our brains, intervening in the building process. Someone once argued that there is no choice

No doubt I do act in 'bad faith' when I deliberately avoid facing an honest decision and follow the conventional pattern of behavior in order to be spared the anxiety that comes when one is... thrown into seventy thousand fathoms.

I mean, you may cause others a spot of bother by your weaknesses, perhaps, but coping with you may possibly increase their strength and sympathy. But if you sin deliberately, even if it seems only against yourself--well--you won't be the only one to suffer. You may even be the one who suffers least.

A man of few words will rarely be thoughtless in his speech- he will measure every word.

I actually love the 'rappers look,' with the saggy pants and oversized clothes. It's very deliberate.

I say that human nature is the original beginning and the raw material, and deliberate effort is what makes it patterned, ordered, and exalted.

I have deliberately left Sylvester and Julia's appearances to the reader's imagination.