Quotes About Deliberation

Wisdom is worried for being slow in its speech and expeditious in its actions.

Even when throwing in the river, measure what you throw

The Senate is allowed to work the way it was designed to - meaning a place where nothing is decided without a good dose of deliberation and debate, as well as input from both the majority and minority parties - it arrives at a result that is acceptable to people all along the political spectrum.

When men are most sure and arrogant they are commonly most mistaken, giving views to passion without that proper deliberation which alone can secure them from the grossest absurdities.

Avi thinks this over before issuing the carefully engineered statement: "It is as true as it ever was.

All the moves I've made have come after I sat down with my family and my agent and thought what was the best move. I've never rushed into something, never gone anywhere where I wasn't sure 100%.

I like to take my time with things.

I'm real big on making sure everything is right and taking my time.

It's better to get things right than to get them fast.

Pondering is a little like considering and a little like thinking, but looser. To ponder, one must let the facts roll around the rim of the mind's roulette wheel, coming to settle in whichever slot they feed pulled to.

Pondering is a little like considering and a little like thinking, but looser. To ponder, one must let the facts roll around the rim of the mind's roulette wheel, coming to settle in whichever slot they feel pulled to.

Allow planning and discernment to take the needed amount of time.

As the New York primary approached, I certainly wasn't against either candidate, but I still had to decide who to vote for. So I sat down with a yellow pad and made a list of pros and cons for each.

There is, therefore, wisdom in reserving one's decisions as long as possible and until all the facts and forces that will be potent at the moment are revealed.

Making wise decisions requires more than incentives. It requires wisdom.

All things will be clear and distinct to the man who does not hurry; haste is blind and improvident.

ACT as men of thought; THINK as men of action.

The superior man sets his person at rest before he moves; he composes his mind before he speaks.

When a man feels the difficulty of doing, can he be other than cautious and slow in speaking?

This is great wisdom, not to be hasty in action, or stubborn in our own opinions.

In deliberation we may hesitate; but a deliberated act must be performed swiftly.

People in New Hampshire know that I'll talk thoughtfully, substantively about any issue.

At Nintendo, we think deeply about everything.

That is neoliberal democracy in a nutshell: trivial debate over minor issues by parties that basically pursue the same pro-business policies regardless of formal differences and campaign debate. Democracy is permissible as long as the control of business is off-limits to popular deliberation or change; i.e. so long as it isn't democracy.