Quotes About Restraint

In an information industry the cost of monopoly must not be measured in dollars alone, but also in its effect on the economy of ideas and images, the restraint of which can ultimately amount to censorship.

Markets are born free, yet no sooner are they born than some would-be emperor is forging chains. Paradoxically,

And if all else fails, I try to obey this message I got in a Chinese fortune cookie (which I have since taped to my laptop): "Avoid compulsively making things worse.

you should never publicly criticize anyone or anything unless it is a matter of morals or ethics. Anything negative you say could at the very least ruin someone's day, or worse, break someone's heart, or simply change someone from being a future ally of yours to someone who will never forget

Avoid compulsively making things worse.

can think, I can wait, I can fast.

3—When in doubt, starve it of oxygen.

Two Words for Conflict Resolution "[My mentor's] life advice to me, when I'm going into a conflict or a difficult situation with my parents or an argument with Neil [Gaiman, her husband] is, 'Say less.' That's it. Just say less.

If I have nothing positive to say, I don't say anything.

Confronting a teenager five minutes before she leaves for school is not helpful, even if the content is accurate. Rebuking a friend for an offense in front of others is not helpful. Asking your husband to consider how you hurt him as he is trying to get to sleep is not helpful.

some supporters of the unrestrained free market have found that dogma: the claim that science is nothing more than politics.

Imagination is a beast that has to be put in a cage.

Nu te prici la vorbe ?i nu te b?ga în certuri; las?-l pe cel?lalt s? aib? dreptate. Nu-?i impune niciodat? voia ta mai presus de a celuilalt. Astfel se deprinde greul me?te?ug al ascult?rii, ?i prin aceasta al smereniei. C?ci smerenia ne este de cea mai mare trebuin??.

Don`t talk while you are anger, Don`t talk about new offering`s while you are happy

In everything the middle course is best: All things in excess bring trouble to men.

I am the the type to have a personal experience with a celebrity, but I'm too classy to bring that up.

Patience means restraining one's inclinations.

Once a man next to me found the handle of a radiator in his mashed potato; he said nothing, merely moving it to the side of his plate after sucking the mashed potato off it first. Nobody else said anything either. If the truth was known several of us were probably jealous.

Wyatt didn't necessarily aim to be a saint in Dodge City, but being less of a sinner could be a more satisfying life. There

I don't want to offend people.

I know I probably offend some people. I have been talking a little too much so I'm trying not to talk as much.

I want to be careful when I'm breaking down matches because I don't want to offend anybody or knock anybody's work. It took me a long time to get where I was at, so I know how it feels when someone knocks on you.

We don't want to cross too many lines or offend the parents at all.

Each day, each one of us chooses not to do many things that would be legal but offensive to those around us.