Carefully Quotes
997 quotes by 813 authors
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Learn avidly. Question repeatedly what you have learned. Analyze it carefully. Then put what you have learned into practice intelligently.
— Edward Cocker
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Choose a subject equal to your abilities; think carefully what your shoulders may refuse, and what they are capable of bearing.
— Horace
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Humility about how little I know has encouraged me to listen more carefully and more wisely.
— John Templeton
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In my 45-year career as an investment counselor, humility did show me the need for worldwide diversification to reduce risk. That career did help me…
— John Templeton
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Forgiveness depends on the person. If he's saying sorry to make himself comfortable, then don't forgive him. If he's asking for forgiveness sincerely, then it's…
— Kim Du-han
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Choose your friends carefully. Your enemies will choose you.
— Yasser Arafat
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For as a city which has been once besieged and not sacked will ever after be more strong to hold out if it be assaulted…
— George Downame
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There is no such thing as absolute truth and absolute falsehood. The scientific mind should never recognise the perfect truth or the perfect falsehood of…
— Unknown Author
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Science gains from it [the pendulum] more than one can expect. With its huge dimensions, the apparatus presents qualities that one would try in vain…
— Leon Foucault
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Writing prejudicial, off-putting reviews is a precise exercise in applied black magic. The reviewer can draw free-floating disagreeable associations to a book by implying that…
— William S. Burroughs
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We can accomplish almost anything within our ability if we but think we can! Every great achievement in this world was first carefully thought out.…
— George Matthew Adams
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On who the flies landed without being chased away by that person, was on her way to death - this was one of the unmistakeable…
— Unknown Author
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I dust [your photo] carefully every morning, for to do so gives me the pleasant feeling that I'm caressing you as in the old days.…
— Nelson Mandela
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Making a garden is somehow like conducting a symphony - different plants come forward at different times and you need to think very carefully about…
— Elisabeth Murdoch
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If a man loses anything and goes back and looks carefully for it, he will find it.
— Sitting Bull
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At the beginning of their careers many writers have a need to overwrite. They choose carefully turned-out phrases; they want to impress their readers with…
— Jorge Luis Borges
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The more you know, the more unflinchingly you deny casual beliefs and Accepted Wisdom when it flies in the face of reality, the more carefully…
— Harlan Ellison
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If I were to offer any advice to young writers, it would be this: be discriminating and be discerning about the work you set for…
— Barry Lopez
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When we grew up and went to school There were certain teachers who would Hurt the children anyway they could By pouring their derision Upon…
— Roger Waters
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Nobody spends somebody else's money as carefully as he spends his own. Nobody uses somebody else's resources as carefully as he uses his own. So…
— Milton Friedman
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