Quotes About Deliberation

A masterpiece is never created in a hurry.

La función del hombre sabio consiste, sobre todo, en deliberar rectamente… Y delibera rectamente, en el sentido más estricto de la palabra, quien apunta en sus cálculos hacia las más altas actividades abiertas del hombre. ARISTÓTELES, Ética de Nicómaco, VI

Err on the side of caution

An important advance is that emotion now looms much larger in our understanding of intuitive judgments and choices than it did in the past. The executive's decision would today be described as an example of the affect heuristic, where judgments and decisions are guided directly by feelings of liking and disliking, with little deliberation or reasoning.

The executive's decision would today be described as an example of the affect heuristic, where judgments and decisions are guided directly by feelings of liking and disliking, with little deliberation or reasoning.

Mr. Shelton thought for a moment.

We enter into no illegal turpitude until rather careful reflection has assured us of its expediency.

These people will think their way around an ice cream cone before ever giving it a lick.

The novice in the military art flew from point to point, retarding his own preparations by the excess of his violent and somewhat distempered zeal; while the more practiced veteran made his arrangements with a deliberation that scorned every appearance of haste

Every third night a commitee holds a meeting in my head.

What is well-spoken must be yoked to what is well-thought. And such thought is the product of great labor, "the drudgery of the law.

I see,' said Jerott slowly. 'You've thought it all out.' 'That's what I do,' said Lymond. 'I sit on my brood-patch and think.

No, said Arthur, no, he added thoughtfully. No, he added again, even more thoughtfully. What? he said at last.

How fast you go. You arrive at a conclusion much sooner than I would permit myself to do.

Marriage, I have always held, is a serious affair, to be entered into only after long deliberation and forethought, and suitability of tastes and inclinations is the most important consideration.

IF anybody had been there to observe the gentle-looking elderly lady who stood meditatively on the loggia outside her bungalow, they would have thought she had nothing more on her mind than deliberation on how to arrange her time that day. An expedition, perhaps, to Castle Cliff; a visit to Jamestown; a nice drive and lunch at Pelican Point_ or just a quiet morning on the beach. But the gentle old lady was deliberating quite other matters. She was in a militant mood.

In a case like this we have to take everything into account,' he said, noncommittally.

He used deliberation as others use quickness of repartee.

The wise man does not commit himself. Is not that so?

She paused for a moment, turning things over in her mind.

The hardest part of anything in life is thinking about it.

We do not want to count; we want to think the count.

Slow down. Make a point of revisiting passages that seem especially rich, or especially confusing, or for that matter especially offensive.

Know what you're trying to do before you do it. Turning knobs at random isn't enlightening any more than throwing paint at a wall blindfolded will let you paint a nice picture.