Quotes About Deliberation

The race isn't to the swift, it's to the thoughtful.

But smart has to have a depth as well as a length. Some smart brushes over a problem. And some smart grinds exceeding slow, like the mills of God, and it grinds fine, and when it comes up with an answer, it has been tested.

I certainly am not doing nudity because I think lightly of it - I don't think it's something that one should just jump into without thinking about it.

I won't jump two-footed into something without really thinking about it.

I've served on five different juries, and many of them were bonkers in their own way.

Fools fight; winners think.

often thought the same thing, but

I ended up learning so many things from my aunt. And one of those things was to always wait three seconds before responding to anything that might be important. This was why she so often adjusted her glasses. To buy her those three seconds. So that she'd make sure to take the time to decide whether the first thing she'd wanted to say was the right thing.

it took two full years for final congressional action on the Tax Reform Act of 1986 after the Treasury had already done a thorough analysis and put forward a detailed proposal.

Above all, she wanted to look as though she had not given the matter a moment's thought, and that would take time

Party and ideology routinely trump institutional interests and responsibilities. Regular order - the set of rules, norms and traditions designed to ensure a fair and transparent process - was the first casualty. The results: No serious deliberation. No meaningful oversight of the executive. A culture of corruption.

You might want to put this in the back of your craw and think about it.

If you're not sure what you want, then hold back from making plans or responding to invitations until you have a chance to think about it.

I'm trying to be a little bit more mature about my choices and think about what I want to direct next, instead of just jumping into a movie 'cause I want to do it.

I so dislike moments of revelation, Captain. One is invited to infer all manner of deliberation leading us to this place, this time. When the truth of it is chance and mischance rule our every step.

Obedience had never been deemed a pure virtue among the Tiste Andii. To follow must be an act born of deliberation, of clear-eyed, cogent recognition that the one to be followed has earned the privilege. So often, after all, formal structures of hierarchy stood in place of such personal traits and judgements. A title or rank did not automatically confer upon the one wearing it any true virtue, or even worthiness to the claim. Nimander

Pausing gives us the opportunity to arrive at an internal place from which we can choose wisely what needs to be done or said, and then do so gently.

Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider.

People are moderately more likely to favor approaches that involve reflection and deliberation.

There's always merit to having a debate.

I think that we give the impression, to carry on your metaphor, that we go a little faster than we actually do. I'm fairly lazy so I'm always interested in slowing down.

Sometimes I do, sometimes I don't. The scales are balanced so nicely that a feather would turn them.

Questa è la risposta di Orazio, mia cara Lisaweta. 'Considerare le cose in questo modo significherebbe considerarle con troppa precisione,' non è vero?

could see that fatty mind grinding and figuring.