Quotes About Deliberation

How come you're staring at your drink?

I mean dumb choices in the wake of considerable deliberation: those times when you identify a real problem in your life, analyze it, and then with utter confidence come up with precisely the wrong answer.

It's hard, in retrospect, to understand why you did something stupid. I don't mean the small stuff—ruining your favorite tie because you tried to eat soup in the car or throwing out your back because you got talked into playing tackle football on Thanksgiving. I mean dumb choices in the wake of considerable deliberation: those times when you identify a real problem in your life, analyze it, and then with utter confidence come up with precisely the wrong answer

It sounds great, let me think about it …" or "Let me do a bit more research and I'll call you back.

Sir Roger . . . told them, with the air of a man who would not give his judgement rashly, that much might be said on both sides.

In all controversies, it is better to wait the decisions of time, which are slow and sure, than to take those of synods, which are often hasty and injudicious

Meretzky suggests that you consider the following:

By polygons I mean,' said Judy, 'that a question is not a figure with one side only. It is a cube, a heptagon, an octagon. You and I see just one side of a thing and jump to the doing of it. We must learn to walk around the five or the seven or the eight sides it may have and study each before we move an inch.

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

I went through much deliberation on choosing my next TV role after 'Reply 1988.'

There is nothing fast or easy about diplomacy. I have no illusions about that.

I don't try to make any decision of the impulse of my heart. I think things through and go from there.

Communicative and deliberative approaches work well as ideals and evaluative yardsticks for decision making, but they are quite defenceless in the face of power.

asking the right questions.

Do not speak fast, for that shows folly.

Rain spoke as slowly as she could, working her way like a tightrope artist across her thoughts, feeling them an instant before walking the words out.

There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision, and for whom the lighting of every cigar, the drinking of every cup, the time of rising and going to bed every day, and the beginning of every bit of work, are subjects of express volitional deliberation. Full half the time of such a man goes to the deciding, or regretting, of matters which ought to be so ingrained in him as practically not to exist for his consciousness at all.

It is a mistake to use intense words without carefully weighing and measuring them, or they will have already been used when one needs them later.

If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing slowly... very slowly.

In analysing complicated variations one must examine each branch of the tree once and once only.

Ric placed his elbows on his desk and rested his chin in the palms of his hand. "So, let me sum up - we've got one vote for total annihilation and one vote for forcing them to join the hockey team. Am I correct?" "Yes," both females replied.

Online life is about premeditation.

We think about what to do, and muster considerations and arguments in favor of one course or another. How are we to think about that?