Quotes About Consideration

Appliqué is very popular here. To my eye it has a facile look about it, as if the maker has not thought hard but simply cut out whatever shape has taken her fancy and sewn it on to a bit of cloth. Piecing together patchwork, on the other hand, requires more consideration and more accuracy; that is why I like it, though some say it is too cold and geometrical.

With every task she asked for instructions so that she would not offend Abigail with different ways of doing things that might imply her hostess was in the wrong. Abigail was the sort of woman who thought that way.

Traditionally, Indians did not carry on dialogues when discussing important matters. Rather, each person listened attentively until his or her turn came to speak, and then he or she rose and spoke without interruption about the heart of the matter under consideration.

You may laugh at a friend's roof don't laugh at his sleeping accomodation.

So I counted

A moment of consideration often prevents a thousand apologies

Hindsight. It's like foresight without a future.

If we are not intentionally conscious in our communications, we are likely to cause unintentional harm.

Probably hurts him to walk at all, and he couldn't really go faster, not without tripping himself. He's showing sense. This ought to make a big difference." I felt stung. I'd been hurting him, and I didn't know.

Sometimes you never know how much those little things matter.

You have to listen to the people who have a negative opinion as well as those who have positive opinion. Just to make sure that you are blending all these opinions in your mind before a decision is made.

Anda, déjame. Luego te haré caso. Cuando me despierte, si estoy dormida. O, si no, cuando me duerma. Pero no me hagas sombra en el libro ahora, no me rompas lo que estoy haciendo.

Being treated with politeness, consideration, even respect is different from being treated as an equal.

When you go into a room, you knock first. If you start asking people questions and they start tilting back in their chairs, it means they don't want to talk about it. It means if you look at something on their computer screens, they're likely to knock your brains out with a baseball bat.

There are coaches out there," Wooden says, "who have won championships with the dictator approach, among them Vince Lombardi and Bobby Knight. I had a different philosophy.… For me, concern, compassion, and consideration were always priorities of the highest order." Read

when you are about to make a big purchase or an important decision—which car or computer to buy, whether to undergo plastic surgery, or whether to sign up for a costly self-help program—don't ask someone who has just done it.

in both bookstores and coffee shops, it's actually polite to leave browsers and readers alone. When you harass people and offer to help them too much, they feel like you're nudging them out the door.

I know when you need your space. That's why I got the beard.

Does "doing exactly what I want" mean not thinking about other people's feelings? Because that's just not the kind of person I am. Maybe it can mean whatever I want it to mean, like taking care of myselfand not letting people walk over me

I don't want to make anyone else look stupid. That's a privilege I reserve for myself.

That sounds silly, doesn't it? Running away just because you don't want to hurt somebody's feelings? But did you ever think how much of our lives we spend,dodging and twisting and making things difficult for ourselves, to avoid hurting somebody's feelings. Even people with absolutely no claim on us?

Our most widely known scholars have been trained in universities outside of the South. Northern and Western institutions, however, have had no time to deal with matters which concern the Negro especially. They must direct their attention to the problems of the majority of their constituents, and too often they have stimulated their prejudices by referring to the Negro as unworthy of consideration.

Having to explain it means you probably shouldn't have said it.

Not everything is about you," Clary said furiously. "Possibly," Jace said, "but you do have to admit that the majority of things are.