Quotes About Deliberation

the masters represent "the national interest," like those who applauded themselves for leading the country to war "after the utmost deliberation by the more thoughtful members of the community" had reached its "moral verdict.

There's almost always a calmer and ultimately more efficient way to do something if you just stop and think about it.

A slow hour passed, distracted by intermittent drops of moisture from above, as if the sky were conducting a feasibility study on the implications of rain. Of committing to a course of action.

Deliberate with caution, but act with decision; and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.

Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

You ought to have fully and clearly in your own mind a good reason for everything you do, for everything you learn, for everything you eat, for everything you drink.

I can't do anything quickly. I can be spontaneous, but I have to think about it.

Laziness in doing stupid things can be a virtue.

I'm not really into the statements kind of thing.

Do nothing hastily but catching of fleas.

Os instrutores previnem constantemente os seus discípulos contra o erro de omitir o outro lado de cada questão.

I don't deal with the nuts and bolts of life.

you must pick your words very carefully and be sure to say just what you intend to say.

If there were one word that could act as a standard of conduct for one's entire life, perhaps it would be 'thoughtfulness.

Lord Chi Wen thought three times before taking any action. When the Master heard this, he said: Twice is plenty enough.

The jurors appear vaguely stranded and at loose ends, uprooted from their routines and livelihoods.

There you have the deferrer's delight. As long as you say maybe, or hope, or wish, you can use these as a rationale for not doing anything now. All wishing and hoping are a waste of time—the folly of fairyland residents.

refuses to consider

Look twice before you leap.

Deliberation is necessary, unless we wish to play a fool's part. No amount of energy will take the place of thought. A strenuous life, with its eyes shut, is a kind of wild insanity. A drifting life, with its eyes open, is a kind of mild idiocy.

The number of substitutes for fine and clean thinking the world provides positively gnaws at one's vitals.

nothing is left to chance; everything must be deeply considered.

trivial as her hair. This morning she was thinking about how to construct

I have frequently detected myself in such kind of mistakes... in a total misapprehension of character at some point or other: fancying people so much more gay or grave, or ingenious or stupid than they really are, and I can hardly tell why, or in what the deception originated. Sometimes one is guided by what other people say of them, without giving oneself time to deliberate and judge.