Quotes About Deliberate

I always like to think on a problem before reading about it.

I'm very careful. I think about everything. Some people go, 'Oh, I went out and bought something and didn't realise how much it was,' but there's no such thing with me. I always think about the future because I never want to go backwards.

If you analyze my career graph, you will see that I'm slow at choosing projects.

There's nothing gratuitous about my films.

I wrote strong advocacy stories, and when I got to fiction, I made a deliberate effort to leave that behind and enter a country where I had no ax to grind, no advocacy issues that I was carrying with me.

Success in any endeavor does not happen by accident. Rather, it's the result of deliberate decisions, conscious effort, and immense persistence...all directed at specific goals.

All around them, the people worshipped, on their knees. Worshipped what was good, able to worship what was good by deliberately using it to cover up the bad.

I simply go about my passage swiftly and silently, with a certain deliberate, dark efficiency.

Each word bears its weight, so you have to read my poems quite slowly.

If I were to try to describe the way in which I write, the only word I would use without qualification is 'slowly.'

I think my style as far as vocal delivery and even down to the pronunciation of certain words is so deliberate.

I think that my humble beginnings were very deliberate, and I'm grateful for them because I'm not sure I would see my achievements the same way if they were handed to me. I'm not sure my work ethic would be the same.

Everything in our society is so purposeful.

My spirit animal... probably like a turtle, because I have no concept of time.

Every move a sloth makes is with purpose, which is more than most of us can say about 90% of the time.

It is on great occasions only, and after time has been given for cool and deliberate reflection, that the real voice of the people can be known.

I've been directing for 25 years almost, and I've only directed nine films in that time because I like to be careful.

Much of what we think of as "relational knowing"—joking around, expressing affection, and making friends5—is based in this kind of memory. We know how to do it without thinking about it. It does not require deliberate attention or verbal processing, yet it is intrinsic to who we are.

Slowly, but very deliberately, the brooding edifice of seduction, creaking and incongruous, came into being, a vast Heath Robinson mechanism, dually controlled by them and lumbering gloomily down vistas of triteness. With a sort of heavy-fisted dexterity the mutually adapted emotions of each of them became synchronised, until the unavoidable anti-climax was at hand. Later they dined at a restaurant quite near the flat.

The two of them might have met on that high place deliberately for public celebration of some rite or sacrifice. At first neither said a word. That seemed an age. At last Dr Trelawney took the initiative. Raising his right arm slightly, he spoke in a low clear voice, almost in the accents of one whose very perfect enunciation indicates that English is not his native tongue.

I think that the so-called gentleman who sits down with the deliberate intention of extracting money from the pockets of his antagonists, who lays out for himself that way of repairing the shortcomings of fortune, who looks to that resource as an aid to his means, — is worse, much worse, than the public robber!

We shall learn the qualities of governments in the same way as we learn the qualities of individuals, since they are revealed in their deliberate acts of choice; and these are determined by the end that inspires them.

And, generally speaking, all things are good which men deliberately choose to do;

For it is about our actions that we deliberate and inquire, and all our actions have a contingent character; hardly any of them are determined by necessity.