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Quotes About Deliberate

Student - It is not that I do not delight in your Way, Master, it is simply that my strength is insufficient. Confucius - Someone whose strength is genuinely insufficient collapses somewhere along the Way. As for you, you deliberately draw the line.
~ Confucius
Always so deliberate, hardly surprised by the most outlandish advents. A creation perfectly evolved to meet its own end. They sat at the window and ate in their robes by candlelight a midnight supper and watched distant cities burn.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Gudrun entered the taxi, with the deliberate cold movement of a woman who is well-dressed and contemptuous in her soul.
~ D. H. Lawrence
something that's so thoughtful on the outside you say, 'Oh, wow, it must be really thoughtful
~ Walter Isaacson
Should you want to contain something, you must deliberately let it expand. Should you want to weaken something, you must deliberately let it grow strong. Should you want to eliminate something, you must deliberately allow it to flourish. Should you want to take something away, you must deliberately grant it access.
~ Wayne W. Dyer
The peaceful home, like the hoped-for peaceful world, does not depend on a sudden benevolent change in human nature. It does depend on deliberate procedures that methodically reduce tensions before they lead to explosions. Emotionally healthy parents are not saints. They're aware of their anger and respect it. They use their anger as a source of information, an indication of their caring. Their words are congruent with their feelings. They do not hide their feelings.
~ Haim G. Ginott
strategy formation walks on two feet, one deliberate, the other emergent.
~ Lawrence Freedman
Magic is the deliberate manipulation of coincidence.
~ Lawrence M. Schoen
Our civic life is heavily marked—indeed, pocked—by debates in which each side is so certain of its position that any movement is effectively impossible. For that matter, debate—in its original sense of "to consider something, to deliberate"—is impossible. We wind up with so much sound and fury and nothing gained.
~ Leah Hager Cohen
This was a letter to be run through eagerly, to be read deliberately, to supply matter for much reflection, and to leave everything in greater suspense than ever.
~ Jane Austen
Unlike other peoples the United States found their origin in a deliberate act of corporate self-assertion, and ever since the Revolution every little American has been taught to associate himself personally with this creative act.
~ Christopher Dawson
If a scientist sidesteps their scientific peers, and chooses to take an apparently changeable, frightening and technical scientific case directly to the public, then that is a deliberate decision, and one that can't realistically go unnoticed.
~ Ben Goldacre
The public must suffer untold pangs from the stiffness, the deliberate stifling of emotion, on the part of many British actors.
~ Ivor Novello
God deliberately chooses weak, suffering and unlikely candidates to get His work done, so that in the end, the glory goes to God and not to the person.
~ Joni Eareckson Tada
The only thing that we can really make is our work, and deliberate work of the mind, imagination and hand, done, as Nietzsche said, 'notwithstanding,' in the long run remakes the world.
~ Edmund Wilson
Well, my deliberate opinion is - it's a jolly strange world.
~ Arnold Bennett
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie - deliberate, contrived and dishonest - but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought." ~ John F. Kennedy
~ Tim O'Shea
For the great enemy of truth is very often not the lie—deliberate, contrived and dishonest—but the myth—persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Too often we hold fast to the clichés of our forebears. We subject all facts to a prefabricated set of interpretations. We enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought."—John F. Kennedy
~ Timothy Ferriss
changes. It was the deliberate policy of Nazi Germany to artificially create conditions of state destruction and then steer the consequences towards Jews.
~ Timothy Snyder
We don't deliberately set out to offend. Unless we feel it's justified.
~ Graham Chapman
The other difference between codes and patterns," Langdon continued, "is that codes do not occur naturally in the world. Musical notation does not sprout from trees, and symbols do not draw themselves in the sand. Codes are the deliberate inventions of intelligent consciousnesses.
~ Dan Brown
He was, in other words, a careful man with careless impulses.
~ Dan Simmons
ponderously
~ Dan Simmons
judiciously
~ Dan Simmons