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Quotes About Deliberate

No other species lives with regret over past events, or makes deliberate plans for future ones.
~ Daniel J. Levitin
The real key to learning something quickly is to take a deliberate, intelligent approach to your learning.
~ Lindsay Kolowich
The woman went on. She had not looked back. She went out of sight up the road: swollen, slow, deliberate, unhurried, and tireless as augmenting afternoon itself. She walked out of their talking too; perhaps out of their minds too.
~ William Faulkner
a creature cloistered now by deliberate choice and still in the throes of enforced apprenticeship to, rather than voluntary or even acquiescent participation in, breathing
~ William Faulkner
Yet even then the music has still a quality stern and implacable, deliberate and without passion so much as immolation, pleading, asking, for not love, not life, forbidding it to others, demanding in sonorous tones death as though death were the boon, like all Protestant music.
~ William Faulkner
Stupidity's the deliberate cultivation of ignorance.
~ William Gaddis
We must now turn from considering the necessary struggle with language arising, as it were, from its very nature and the nature of the society it serves to the more ominous threat to its integrity brought about neither by its innate inadequacy nor yet by the incompetence and carelessness of its ordinary users, but rather engineered deliberately by those who will manipulate words for their own ends.
~ Chinua Achebe
The "occasionally remarkable" moments shouldn't be left to chance! They should be planned for, invested in.
~ Chip Heath
The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact. Their newspapers and propaganda carefully cultivate every fissure of disunity, every crack in the common front against fascism.
~ Henry A. Wallace
from Inkpen and Choudhury, 1995:313-323) … Strategy absence need not be associated with organizational failure…. Deliberate building in of strategy absence may promote flexibility in an organization…. Organizations with tight controls, high reliance on formalized procedures, and a passion for consistency may lose the ability to experiment and innovate.
~ Henry Mintzberg
In that brief glance Vronsky has time to notice the restrained animation that played over her face and fluttered between her shining eyes and the barely noticeable smile that curved her red lips. It was as if a surplus of something so overflowed her being that it expressed itself beyond her will, now in the brightness of her glance, now in her smile. She deliberately extinguished the light in her her eyes, but it shone against her will in a barely noticeable smile.
~ Leo Tolstoy
I'm a little more measured. That sense of urgency I thought accompanied things - it can take a little longer. You have to take the long view.
~ Michael Arad
Look at every path closely and deliberately, then ask ourselves this crucial question: Does this path have a heart? If it does, then the path is good. If it doesn't, it is of no use.
~ Carlos Castaneda
As a leader, you must consistently drive effective communication. Meetings must be deliberate and intentional - your organizational rhythm should value purpose over habit and effectiveness over efficiency.
~ Chris Fussell
In all the ills that befall us, we are more concerned by the intention than the result. A tile that falls off a roof may injure us more seriously, but it will not wound us so deeply as a stone thrown deliberately by a malevolent hand. The blow may miss, but the intention always strikes home.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
We need to have a better balance between a deliberate strategy and staying open. Because in the end, most of us end up being successful in a career that we never imagined we would be in at the beginning.
~ Clayton M. Christensen
I try not to be overly analytical.
~ Diane Lane
In 313, issuing a proclamation that for the first time gave a legal standing to Christianity, he coyly refused to name 'the divinity who sits in heaven'.54 The vagueness was deliberate. Christ or Apollo, Constantine wished to leave the choice of whom his subjects identified as 'the supreme divinity'55 to them. Where there were divisions, he aimed to blur.
~ Tom Holland
The Rooneys are very classy. They're very deliberate with their decision-making. Once you're part of that family, Steeler nation, they treat you with respect. You don't have a lot of rambunctious players running around.
~ Tony Dorsett
Belize: I hate America, Louis. I hate this country. Nothing but a bunch of big ideas and stories and people dying, and then people like you. The white cracker who wrote the National Anthem knew what he was doing. He set the word free to a note so high nobody could reach it. That was deliberate.
~ Tony Kushner
Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life.
~ Tony Robbins
Breakable codes and findable clues. Everything had been done on purpose.
~ Trenton Lee Stewart
liked some time to consider his new dilemma
~ Trenton Lee Stewart
All art is propaganda. It is universally and inescabably propaganda; sometimes unconsciously, but often deliberately, propaganda.
~ Upton Sinclair