Quotes About Deliberation

If you could make a pudding wi' thinking o' the batter, it 'ud be easy getting dinner.

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

qué es la vacilación sino un rodeo de la conciencia?

I can't stop thinking like this.

I can see her weighing her response, concentrating like a cliff diver studying the ebb and flow of the tide."Um, well... could you at least give me an idea?""Two weeks give or take a week or two.

Like everybody who is not in love, he thought one chose the person to be loved after endless deliberations and on the basis of particular qualities or advantages.

sometimes when you're too careful it just turns into a different kind of carelessness.

resist the temptation to jump to a solution;

We Persians have a saying that one should deliberate serious matters first drunk, then sober.

Dragonfly can't decide which blade of grass to land on

The point is simply to keep the argument going, to ensure that it never reaches a conclusion (which leads to confusion, fatigue and collusion)

My mother left home in the manner that characterized everything she did: with a decision that swelled and ripened slowly and once made could be rescinded by no one. She would sit at the kitchen table with a large sheet of paper that she would divide into two columns. At the top of one she would write FOR and at the top of the other AGAINST...She made her lists, counted on her fingers, and made her decision only after tabulating and weighing.

You would rather think about the good than do it.

Physical proximity, of course, facilitates the common education of the affects, but also essential are the intense experiences of cooperation, the creation of mutual security in a situation of extreme vulnerability, and the collective deliberation and decision-making processes. The encampments are a great factory for the production of social and democratic affects.

The rare example of thoughtful, studied deliberation occurred in 1787 with the drafting of the U.S. Constitution. Now, events call for the same studiousness, deliberation, and debate on governance at a global scale. If that debate does not occur, events themselves, through those "factions" or what are today known as "special interests," will determine the fundamental goals and principles under which future civilization will be governed.

developing and exercising their abilities in work that wins social esteem, sharing in a widely diffused culture of learning, and deliberating with their fellow citizens about public affairs.

Who can talk you through this stuff before you decided to act on it?" "Well," said the president, "you won't like the answer, but the answer is me. Me. I talk to myself.

Our wisdom and deliberation for the most part follow the lead of chance.

From pro's and con's they fell to a warmer way of disputing.

a considerable

First thoughts are not always the best.

Too much thinking can lead to overthinking or cause a person to become overly cautious in life.

Slow people are just paying close attention.

Whatever the committee decided, it would take time for the towers to be built.