Quotes About Caution

Haste makes work which caution prevents.

I'm trying to get some building work done at the moment, quite seriously. Be careful.

It is more rational to suspect knavery and folly than to discount, at a stroke, everything that past experience has taught me about the way things actually work

Saying, have a great work-out is like saying, I hope you pull something.

Once when I went over my work with my Washington University professor, the late great Stanley Elkin, he pointed to a passage of mine and said: Stop vamping. It has remained a caution.

You can't trust girls. When I get a girlfriend I am not going to tell her where I live or work.

I think my work is influenced by the fact that we're living in dangerous times. If I could put it in a sentence, in fact, my work is about just that: living in dangerous times.

The work you are treating is one full of dangerous hazard, and you are treading over fires lurking beneath treacherous ashes.

I'm gonna see how this works out, but I think it's a bad idea.

Prudence is not the same thing as caution. Caution is a helpful strategy when you're crossing a minefield; it's a disaster when you're in a gold rush.

My whole life in the streets, I was taught not to answer questions and just keep my mouth shut.

I've realized that I am a strict mom. I don't want to think that nothing wrong can happen with me.

We never know when or where harm may strike but, we can take proactive steps to protect ourselves.

I was a mother who worked ridiculously hard to keep catastrophe at bay. I didn't allow my kids to eat hamburgers for fear of E. coli. I didn't allow them to play with rope, string, balloons - anything that might strangle them. They had to bite grapes in half, avoid lollipops, eat only when I could watch them.

I have never made fun of religion. Religion is something I don't even want to mess with, because I am really afraid of the clouds opening up and my being struck by lightning.

I help receivers on my team every now and then, but I'm slow to do even that because they could end up my opponent the following year.

I'm a born, cautious optimist.

I would say I'm cautiously optimistic.

We are optimistic, but we are optimistic in a cautious fashion.

In politics, you also have to be cautiously optimistic.

I always try to be cautiously optimistic.

Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.

And I feel that filmmakers ought to be careful with the use of 3D. Because if you look back over the decades, you see that 3D has come and gone for I don't know how many years now.

By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.