Quotes About Deliberation

SQL, Lisp, and Haskell are the only programming languages that I've seen where one spends more time thinking than typing.

Nothing can be done quickly and prudently at the same time.

A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.

I move very slowly. It's usually material first. I sit with the material for a long time.

If all that's going on in your scenes is what's going on in your scenes, think about it a long time.

I must have a prodigious amount of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up!

Deberían dejarse guiar más por la razón».

Well then; do men deliberate about everything, and is anything soever the object of Deliberation, or are there some matters with respect to which there is none? (It may be as well perhaps to say, that by object of Deliberation is meant such matter as a sensible man would deliberate upon, not what any fool or madman might.)

The injunction that before making a final decision in any matter one should sleep on it for a night is obviously fully justified.

How many things there are concerning which we might well deliberate whether we had better know them.

I have hesitation making any kind of decision, really in my life. I'm really slow at it.

Everything in life should be done with reflection.

Thus situated, the perilous experiment must be made. Let me make it with full deliberations, and be prepared for the consequences.

Philosophy is nothing but discretion.

Prudence" is practical wisdom or good sense.

I've been thinking." Ben stopped Nikolas trying to straighten his wayward tie. Nikolas shook Ben's hands off and continued what he was doing with a frown. "This is hardly the time to start a new hobby.

Before you speak or act, first and foremost try to chew the cud within you i.e. think and have a rethink reflectively before you talk or act. I mean, do consider and reconsider whatever you intend to do or say before daring to talk or act in any matter or case. For, doing just that is probable to positively influence your speech or action.

What is known as "wisdom" is ultimately only a perpetual "thinking it over," i.e., non-action as first impulse.

Talent for oratory can simulate the need for action and even thought.

We always carry out by committee anything in which any one of us alone would be too reasonable to persist.

I don't think it's the function of Congress to function well. It should drag its heels on the way to decision.

I always go back to Harry Truman: Should we drop an atomic bomb to save 100,000 lives? That's a hell of a decision to make. Did he make that decision by himself? No, he had advisers.

Decision making, like coffee, needs a cooling process.

All obstructions to the execution of the laws, all combinations and associations, under whatever plausible character, with the real design to direct, control, counteract, or awe the regular deliberation and action of the constituted authorities, are destructive of this fundamental principle, and of fatal tendency.