Deliberate Quotes · Page 6

I have seen slower people than I am and more deliberate... and even quieter, and more listless, and lazier people than I…

— Mark Twain

A massive amount of quantity with a deliberate focus on improvement leads to the knowledge and experience of how to make quality.

— An Na

It's their deliberate, disgusting, revolting conduct that is responsible for the disease

— Jesse Helms

“Leadership is self-made. People who have deliberately decided to become problems solver lead better.”

— Israelmore Ayivor

It is on great occasions only, and after time has been given for cool and deliberate reflection, that the real voice of…

— George Washington

“Deliberate practice is often the opposite of enjoyable. I like the term “stretch” for describing what deliberate practice feels like,”

— Cal Newport

Deliberate virtue is never worth much: The virtue of feeling or habit is the thing.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

To develop thinking as a skill, it should be deliberate, focused, confident, and enjoyable.

— Edward de Bono

Human passions, like the forces of nature, are eternal; it is not a matter of denying their existence, but of assessing them…

— Leon Bourgeois

The world in which we live can be understood as a result of muddle and accident; but if it is the outcome…

— Bertrand Russell

The deliberate union of so great and various a people in such a place, is without all partiality or prejudice, if not…

— John Adams

The human response it calls for is truly heroic, requiring nothing short of rewiring the entire planet with a new generation of…

— Eban Goodstein

It is important that the United States move with all deliberate speed to develop and get into usage alternative fuels that will…

— Virgil Goode

I am attracted to ellipsis, to the unsaid, to suggestion, to eloquent, deliberate silence. The unsaid, for me, exerts great power: often…

— Louise Glück

Then as the years went on and my listening became more deliberate, I would climb up on an arm of our big…

— Seamus Heaney

Try everything that can be done. Be deliberate. Be spontaneous. Be thoughtful and painstaking. Be abandoned and impulsive. Learn your own possibilities.

— George Bellows

The only method compatible with our notions of civilization and the race is to prevent the breeding of the unfit by sterilization…

— Nikola Tesla

The Persians are very fond of wine ... It is also their general practice to deliberate upon affairs of weight when they…

— Herodotus

Now, tell me how you're going to teach the history of Jefferson, and cut out all those quotes and cut out all…

— Newt Gingrich

The whole is a riddle, an enigma, an inexplicable mystery. Doubt, uncertainty, suspence of judgment appear the only result of ourmost accurate…

— David Hume

Simplicity in its essence demands neither a vow of poverty nor a life of rural homesteading. As an ethic of self-conscious material…

— David Shi

“when a branch of psychology, sometimes called performance psychology, began to systematically explore what separates experts (in many different fields) from everyone…

— Cal Newport

For the first time in six or seven thousand years, many people of goodwill find themselves confused about art. They want to…

— Barbara Holland

Obviously, a man's judgement cannot be better than the information on which he has based it. Give him the truth and he…

— Arthur Hays Sulzberger

I say that human nature is the original beginning and the raw material, and deliberate effort is what makes it patterned, ordered,…

— Xun Kuang

I'm something of a history buff. It's deliberate that a lot of my films have been period pieces.

— Cary Elwes

The only failure is the failure to learn from conscious and deliberate efforts to make things better, even if those attempts fall…

— Stewart D. Friedman

If deliberate distortion of reality by corporate media could be effectively prosecuted in the United States, the entire industry would be behind…

— Cynthia McKinney

Our unconscious is really good at quick decision-making - it often delivers a better answer than more deliberate and exhaustive ways of…

— Malcolm Gladwell

Satire of satire tends to be self-canceling, and deliberate shock tactics soon lose their ability to shock, especially when they're too deliberate.

— Herb Caen

“deliberate practice—practice designed to develop mastery in the specific areas required by whatever role or position we are targeting.”

— David DiSalvo

Sometimes I don't even deliberate. I just decide from the bench, it's so obvious. The beautiful part is that I have carte…

— Joseph Wapner

Success has to do with deliberate practice. Practice must be focused, determined, and in an environment where there's feedback.

— Malcolm Gladwell

“I'm in a hole because at some point I found a shovel and started digging. Maybe I should trade my shovels for…

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

“It is a lifetime accumulation of deliberate practice that again and again ends up explaining excellence.”

— Cal Newport

There's fatigue but also a deliberate desire to want to reach absolute perfection at every concert.

— Lisa Gerrard

There is only one purpose to which a whole society can be directed by a deliberate plan. That purpose is war, and…

— Walter Lippmann

Ironically, the more deliberate we are in our work - cranking through our inboxes, clearing our to-do lists - the more myopic…

— Dinesh Paliwal

My only deliberate attempt has been to act, to do good work. Thereafter, the medium has been choosing me.

— Indraneel Bhattacharya

I want to throw my voice more, I want to manipulate melody more... I want to be less deliberate and mechanical... I…

— Sufjan Stevens