Quotes About Deliberation

I'd say," the Ranger answered after a few seconds' deliberation, "that he'll be heading south now that he has the chance. Back into Araluen." "How do you know that?" Horace asked. He was always impressed at the two Rangers' ability to read a situation and come up with the correct answer to a problem. Sometimes, he thought, they almost seemed to have divine guidance. "I'm guessing," Halt told him.

Haste maketh waste.

Where once there seemed to be room to wonder, to speculate, to not know, there now seems to be increasing pressure for instant answers, immediate solutions, and narrowly defined results.

People] will do the rational thing, but only after exploring all other alternatives.

People] will do the rational thing, but only after exploring all other altertives.

He looked calmer somehow. It wasn't peace of mind he had found, but maybe a new deliberation.

began to think there was a good deal to be said for

His grin turns into a thoughtful pursing of the lips, and he actually seems to consider my question.

Poley rested his knuckles on his lips, the image of a fighting cock.

You are alive! True magic involves the reduction of properties to simplicity – making them transmutable so that they can be utilized in fresh directions, bearing fruit many times. Know deliberation, self-consciousness and concentration to be antithetical to magic, and sycophancy to be a way of making stupid.

It is ridiculous to say that Sacco and Vanzetti are being railroaded to the chair. The situation is much worse than that. This is a thing done cold-bloodedly and with deliberation. But care and deliberation do not guarantee justice.

I would have to think about it for two or three months before I decided to do something which would have meaning. And it would have to be more than just an impression or pleasure. I would need an objective, a meaning. That is the only thing that could help me.

Usually when you do a pilot, there's a moment where all of the executives get together and say thumbs up or down.

consideres, quid tuae rationes postulent.

took time to really ponder

As historical texts become rich and conceptually dense, readers may slow down not because they fail to comprehend, but because the very act of comprehension demands that they stop to TALK with their texts. In plain English, they pretend to deliberate with others by talking to themselves.

I have been laid up with intentional flu.

If I look confused it's because I'm thinking.

As I slowly grow wise I briskly grow cautious.

She deliberated too much afore making decisions; he acted on instinct. He liked Oreos, she preferred pasta worms.

Ask yourself, "When does this decision have to be taken?" and having answered it, defer the decision until then, in order to give yourself maximum pondering time.

No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.

Normally when people say they haven't decided, they're being polite but they're definitely not voting for you. I think it's different this time. People are thinking hard about the issues.

The individual is foolish; the multitude, for the moment is foolish, when they act without deliberation; but the species is wise, and, when time is given to it, as a species it always acts right.