Quotes About Deliberation

I'm a sluggish character; I'm a bit slow. For some reason I find it hard to work quickly.

The key to this collaboration - which we undertook after much deliberation - was to stretch creatively. New characters, new locales, new form (the novella).

For me, it is always important that I go through all the possible options for a decision.

in life, you must always plan your moves. Think before you act. Move toward a favorable outcome.

But she would not be hastened. Words were to her things to be caught one by one and released with difficulty.

When an arguer argues dispassionately he thinks only of the argument.

Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought. —Henry Bergson

But for what reason? Council

Thou weigh'st thy words before thou givest them breath.

I do not mind if you think slowly, but I do object when you publish more quickly than you think.

In my opinion, however, disasters such as these teach men this lesson with regard to anger: one ought not to punish even a slave in anger; for masters who have lost their tempers often do more harm to themselves than they inflict; but in dealing with enemies it is utterly and entirely wrong to launch an attack under the influence of anger and without deliberation. Anger does not look ahead, whereas deliberation is just as concerned with avoiding harm oneself as with inflicting it on the enemy.

When you can't answer the question, flip it over. Forget what makes something go fast--what makes it slow down?

Before beginning, plan carefully.

Let us not concur casually about the most important matters.

If an important decision is to be made, they [the Persians] discuss the question when they are drunk, and the following day the master of the house where the discussion was held submits their decision for reconsideration when they are sober. If they still approve it, it is adopted; if not, it is abandoned. Conversely, any decision they make when they are sober, is reconsidered afterwards when they are drunk.

I urge you both, undertake no course without deep thought: but learn to think very fast.

How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!

You can decide to forgo any ethical deliberations and simply embrace the moral beliefs and norms you inherited from your family and culture. But this approach undermines your freedom, for if you accept without question whatever moral beliefs come your way, they are not really yours. Only if you critically examine them for yourself are they truly yours.

There would be no point asking Sarah because she was incapable of making a decision. If Cecilia asked her if she wanted tea or coffee, she would sit for a full minute, her forehead furrowed as she agonized over the pros and cons of each beverage, before finally saying, "Coffee! No, wait, tea!" A decision like this one would give her a seizure.

The careful untangling of a legal issue. Like math, but with words.

slowing down an activity may meet with greater success than doing it quickly.

Generals have gone to war with far less deliberation than she gave to the choice between the pear tart or the vanilla soufflé.

I do not want to abandon representative democracy. I want to see it balanced by popular sovereignty, especially the variety known as deliberative democracy.

Raising taxes is not a frivolous venture that you do on the editorial page of 'The New Republic,' for god sakes. It's something that you really have to think about and go through carefully.