Quotes About Deliberation

think and talk and act rather than react,

Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.

With a little more deliberation in the choice of their pursuits, all men would perhaps become essentially students and observers, for certainly their nature and destiny are interesting to all alike.

it is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

And if I wavered for the instant it was not with what I kept back.

He saw her try, for a time, to appear to consider it; but he saw her also not consider it.

he wished to do everything because he was lucid and quiet

It was always the case for him in these counsels that each of his remarks, as it came, seemed to drop into a deeper well. He had at all events to wait a moment to hear the slight splash of this one.

The possible solutions to a given problem emerge as the leaves of a tree, each node representing a point of deliberation and decision.

On practical level I can't pick up the camera until I think I know what I want. I don't wander around. It's almost impossible for me to pick up a camera... it's really hard.

Cold allowed precision, heat threw caution aside and plunged in rampantly. Cold was the process of deliberation and planning, heat the result of unbridled passion. Passion was fine, but only when controlled and channeled properly.

I'm really slow.

The human race should just slow down and think about what it is doing.

In Italy, you get three or four goals, you go slow, you stop.

I'm slow by nature; even if I write something fast, I'll let it sit for a month and hem and haw over it.

The frustration of the Senate is that it's slow. It looks like an aquarium.

I write very slowly.

I write slowly.

We should tend our freedom wisely.

the property of Man's wit to act readily and quickly, while the property of the judgement is to be slow and poised.

We'd be fools not to.

Festina lente

without intent or design, without forethought or judgment, without planning or deliberation, the cosmos yields meticulously ordered configurations of particles from atoms to stars to life.

Since you can't do everything, you must learn to deliberately put off those tasks that are of low value so that you have enough time to do the few things that really count.