Quotes About Caution

Who doesn't love a compliment? But every compliment comes with a warning: Beware—Do Not Overuse. Go ahead, sniff your compliment. Take a little sip. But don't chew, don't swallow. If you do, you risk abandoning the good work that inspired the compliment in the first place. If that happens, maybe it was the compliment and not the job well done that you were aiming for all along.

Looking at cleavage is like looking at the sun. You can't stare at it. It's too risky. You get a sense of it and then you look away.

Fire, they said, is no natural friend to man. That is why one must humor it.

Better to feel the pain now, my dad had told me that day I'd fallen off my bike, than suffer the infection later.

Trust your instincts, Frankie. Dad had first said that to me when I couldn't decide if the towering plant I was eyeballing was an extremely poisonous giant hogweed or a delicious Indian celery.

I had to assume the worst about people because I knew firsthand what horrible things they were capable of.

You need to be careful not to over-reach and also assess the capacity you have to work with.

Be careful, perfection can make persons and work pass out of sight.

Stay away from girls who cry a lot or who look like they get pregnant easily or have careers.

So, my advice to young scientists is, think critically about your work; probably don't blab unnecessarily.

Nor yet be overeager in pursuit of any thing; for the mercurial too often happen to leave judgment behind them, and sometimes make work for repentance.

Beware all enterprises that require new clothes.

Be happy when you work, thankful when you earn, cautious when you spend, shrewd when you save, and charitable when you give.

Sometimes, on duty, if one trusts a stranger, one's nerves are on edge. What if I am making a mistake!

I've heard that hard work never killed anyone, but I say why take the chance?

Beware: If you egg people on, you'll get egg on your face.

When you write the first book of a series, you do have to be careful what you put in because then you are stuck with it.

I think you need to be very careful of getting 'stuck' in musical theatre.

My only foray into anything stock-market-related was in my eighth grade social studies class. I have steered clear ever since.

I'm extremely fascinated by marriage. I want to study marriage. I want to learn about it. I want to know it. I want to figure out whether or not I want to do it. I'm not just going to leap into it, because that's not good for anybody.

Crazy stuff happens when you start replying to scam emails. It's really difficult, and I highly recommend we do it.

I just have to say no to some of the stunts that I love doing so much. I enjoy doing that stuff, but I've learned to let the stuntmen do those.

I never rode a bull - I'm not that stupid.

I've made some stupid decisions, so I have to be careful. I once said 'no' to a film that was a number-one hit. And 'Date Movie' had the smallest budget of any movie I'd been in, and it went to the top of the box office.