Quotes About Caution

I think sometimes it's a little bit dangerous to change things when clearly they're working.

You don't want to come out with anything that's wrong, of course, in a scientific, you know, a major scientific announcement, and so you're being so careful trying to check, well maybe it's this, maybe it's that, you're looking at every possible thing.

I have to chose my words carefully.

The civil service are risk averse.

I'm a big supporter of safety.

I do not believe in populism. I am not a supporter of radical decisions. Practice has shown that usually these are harmful.

I suppose the old natural stuff would be ok, the old mushroom, but I wouldn't advise anyone to do it.

My head been on a swivel before I was rapping. So, do my head not supposed to be on the swivel? If you've been like this your whole life, do it stop because you got money now? Do it stop because everybody and their momma looking at you now?

Our errors are surely not such awfully solemn things. In a world where we are so certain to incur them in spite of all our caution, a certain lightness of heart seems healthier than this excessive nervousness on their behalf.

I thought that plastic surgery was easy, but it is really serious and is not something you want to mess around with.

Some journalists are pestier than others, so I find out where the pests are. I am careful with my actors and actresses. I come back and tell them, 'Watch out for this one or that one.' People are surprised I do that. But I watch out for them even after the movie is over.

I don't want to set the world up for surprises.

Common sense is the guy who tells you that you ought to have had your brakes relined last week before you smashed a front end this week. Common sense is the Monday morning quarterback who could have won the ball game if he had been on the team. But he never is. He's high up in the stands with a flask on his hip. Common sense is the little man in a grey suit who never makes a mistake in addition. But it's always someone else's money he's adding up.

Don't be a hero, young man. There's no percentage in it.

I knew one thing: as soon as anyone said you didn't need a gun, you'd better take one along that worked.

It's not his step, it's the back of his lap he ought to watch, I said.

Informants can be helpful, but they are never infallible. All tools can break, or be turned into weapons.

I know he hasn't a mean or petty bone in him, but one can err on the side of caution as well as rashness.

Zip it kiddo. Don't ever admit you know a thing about cooking or it'll be used against you later in life.

Sidda and I will always have to be careful with each other.

If you think someone is seriously on the prod for your ass, it keeps you awake.

As many men have observed, the wrong woman can ruin your life if you let her in it.

Learn from the mistakes of others, you can't live long enough to make them all yourself. - Eleanor Roosevelt

He was wary of zealots who embraced good causes only to turn other people against them.61