Quotes About Deliberation

I didn't wander into motherhood or nonmotherhood unconsciously, recklessly. I gave it due consideration.

I always feel like I just wanna go, and that's something that I'm learning every day - understanding to think more instead of just going because I see an advantage or I see that 'oh, I can make this move, I can make this shot.'

The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress; therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure.

I don't like spontaneity; there you go. I'm wary of it.

Take your time, now,' said Mr. Blood. 'I never knew speed made by overhaste.

We didn't buy much, but we thought about everything.

The hand should not necessarily be the quickest organ in one's body when one is writing.

The desire to minimize human uniqueness has prompted exaggerated claims about animal tool use, about their range and mode of communication and their sense of each other, about their putative beliefs and other modes of thought. However, the monuments of collective endeavour seen in the animal kingdom – for example the heaps created by termites – are the result not of conscious deliberation but of dovetailing automaticities.

I'm always careful to even guess, at any juncture, about things before we do them.

Certain times, I'll choose my words very carefully and maybe come off a little more boring.

When I get thinking, I get very knotted up. I chew things over a lot and take things quite seriously.

I think you cannot make films without choosing everything.

As my friends will tell you, I am a superior agonizer. Believe me, you do not want me in the cockpit of an airliner. But in my defense, choosing an idea is also a high-stakes affair.

Adulthood is made up of a prudent anticipation and a philosophical memory that make you navigate more slowly and steadily.

Neither in tailoring nor in legislating does man proceed by mere accident.

Men of thoughts should have nothing to do with action.

I knew a wise man that had it for a by-word, when he saw men hasten to a conclusion, "Stay a little, that we may make an end the sooner."

The wise man thinks once before he speaks twice.

Behind every kick of the ball there has to be a thought.

If thou thinkest twice before thou speakest once, thou wilt speak twice the better for it.

Hasty resolutions are of the nature of vows, and to be equally avoided.

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.

In all controversies, it is better to wait the decisions of time, which are slow and sure, than to take those of synods, which are often hasty and injudicious

Every thought is an afterthought.