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Quotes About Consideration

There's no shame in following your heart," said Gawain. "But my brother needs to watch where he steps while doing so. And on whom he steps.
~ Robyn Schneider
Truths are best perceived after looking at all sides.
~ Rodney Barker
Having recognized that a choice needs to be made, you can now turn to the full range of possibilities you should consider. These might be versions of the options already identified.
~ Roger L. Martin
To put oneself in the position of others is an act of compassionate imagination freed from self-concern.
~ Roger Lipsey
Small attentions make great friends.
~ Romain Gary
J'ai jamais aimé faire de la peine aux gens, je suis philosophe.
~ Romain Gary
A prudent silence will frequently be taken for wisdom and a sentence or two cautiously thrown in will sometimes gain the palm of knowledge, while a man well informed but indiscreet and unreserved will not uncommonly talk himself out of all consideration and weight. (Alexander Hamilton's 'thesis on discretion' written to his son James shortly before his fatal duel with Burr.)
~ Ron Chernow
deepened with time. Nowadays I am often the veteran on the set. I try to be conscious of the effect that my words and actions have on the people with whom I'm working, mindful of how one single comment could affect someone's life trajectory . .
~ Ron Howard
The longer you wait and put off the nice things you should do on a regular basis, the harder it is to do them, until finally you have to force yourself to be nice, to be thoughtful, and it isn't easy, because you're embarrassed about not having done those easy, nice things in a natural kind of way. Also, the people who you're nice to come to expect your regular niceness. That's it in a nutshell.
~ Ron McLarty
you cannot expect people to seriously consider your idea without accepting the possibility that they will challenge it. Accepting that process of engagement as the terrain of leadership liberates you personally.
~ Ronald A. Heifetz
Do whatever comes your way as well as you can. Think as little as possible about yourself and as much as possible about other people and other things that are interesting. Put a good deal of thought into happiness that you are able to give.
~ Roosevelt, Eleanor
Look,' I said, 'I'm gonna help you out. When a person who works retail is off duty, we don't do nothing for nobody—unless that person asks nice.' 'Wow. You could never be a high school teacher.
~ Louise Erdrich
A wise man looks the other way.
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
We cannot therefore say in logic: This and this there is in the world, that there is not. For that would apparently presuppose that we exclude certain possibilities, and this cannot be the case since otherwise logic must get outside the limits of the world: that is, if it could consider these limits from the other side also.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
Don't let us quarrel. We all have our weaknesses, dear friends; so we must strive to be considerate of one another. And since this poor boy is hungry and has nothing whatver to eat, let us all remain quiet and allow him to sleep; for it is said that in sleep a mortal may forget even hunger. - Scarecrow
~ Lyman Frank Baum
decency to call me and give me an update.
~ Lynda La Plante
All the important roles shortly boiled down to one: remember your with other people; show some consideration.
~ Lynne Truss
If we looked inside ourselves and remembered how insignificant we are, just for a couple of minutes a day, respect for other people would be an automatic result.
~ Lynne Truss
Recusa ser minha mulher? - Essa seria a minha felicidade; mas quisera sê-lo com honra. - Que mais honra? - Um casamento clandestino não nos ficaria bem. Se ambos fôssemos pobres ou ricos, sim; mas a desigualdade das nossas fortunas... - Oh! não faças essa consideração. - É essencial.
~ Machado de Assis
he seemed to be thinking at him.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
God, Benny, don't blow your nose like that in the church. You'd lift half the congregation out of their seats," Patsy warned.
~ Maeve Binchy
The first consideration is sunlight. Roses need at least six hours each day for vigorous, healthy growth. If you have a choice between morning and afternoon
~ Maggie Oster
Respect for others requires a complicated calculation in which one party agrees to moderate their own desires, to consider the longer-term consequences of their own behavior, to think about something other than the thing right in front of them.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
What is required of us is restraint and humility.
~ Malcolm Gladwell