Deliberate Quotes

332 Deliberate quotes by 270 unique authors

Poetry requires deliberate movement in its direction, a filament of faith in its persistence, receptivity to its fundamental worthwhileness. Within its unanesthetized heart there is… — C.D. Wright
Spraying to kill trees and and raspberry bushes after a clear-cut merely looks unaesthetic for a short time, but tree plantations are deliberate ecodeath. Yet,… — Bernd Heinrich
There's been a deliberate and systematic effort to convey to countries around the world, friends and foes, that if they cross the United States there's… — Sandy Berger
We Persians have a saying that one should deliberate serious matters first drunk, then sober. — Mary Renault
It would be one of the greatest triumphs of humanity, one of the most tangible liberations from the constraints of nature to which mankind is… — Sigmund Freud
Obviously, a man's judgement cannot be better than the information on which he has based it. Give him the truth and he may still go… — Arthur Hays Sulzberger
By far the most numerous and most flagrant violations of personal liberty and individual rights are performed by governments... The major crimes throughout history, the… — John Hospers
Just as we're all students throughout life, we're all teachers. In fact, we learn best by offering what we desire for ourselves to as many… — Wayne Dyer
When certain concepts of TeX are introduced informally, general rules will be stated; afterwards you will find that the rules aren't strictly true. In general,… — Donald Knuth
There are many possibilities that people can choose from. There are bad and there are good ones. So, look carefully to choose for yourself the… — Vladimir Aleksandrovich Antonov
Integration proceeds by just the opposite route: a deliberate heightening of every organic function; a release of impulses from circumstances that irrationally thwarted them; richer… — Lewis Mumford
They [the Persians] are accustomed to deliberate on matters of the highest moment when warm with wine; but whatever they in this situation may determine… — Herodotus
Excellence demands effort and planned, deliberate practice of increasing difficulty — K. Anders Ericsson
Imitation is often a shortcut to a solution. We copy when we lack the inclination, the ability or the time to work out an independent… — Eric Hoffer
Most of the harm in the world is done by good people, and not by accident, lapse, or omission. It is the result of their… — Isabel Paterson
Most of the harm in the world is done by good people, and not by accident, lapse, or omission. It is the result of their… — Isabel Paterson
One often hears of a horse that shivers with terror, or of a dog that howls at something a mans eyes cannot see, and men… — William Butler Yeats
Deliberate virtue is never worth much: The virtue of feeling or habit is the thing. — Georg C. Lichtenberg
Other animals can make sounds, and sounds can indicate pleasure and pain. But language, a distinctly human capacity, isn´t just for registering pleasure and pain.… — Michael Sandel
Chronic sexual predators [to Vachss, pedophiles] have crossed an osmotic membrane. They can’t step back to the other side - our side. And they don't… — Andrew Vachss
I think we're going to move from a Homo sapiens into a Homo evolutis: ... a hominid that takes direct and deliberate control over the… — Juan Enriquez
Once you begin to understand and truly master your thoughts and feelings, that's when you see how you create your own reality. That's where your… — Marci Shimoff
Opening our borders to a flood of illegal immigrants is deliberate … It’s time to impeach; and on behalf of American workers and legal immigrants… — Sarah
The true felicity of a lover of books is the luxurious turning of page by page, the surrender, not meanly abject, but deliberate and cautious,… — Edith Wharton
Smiling can be a deliberate, intentioned act. When it is that, it becomes an act of creation, and a powerful tool. Be quick to smile,… — Neale Donald Walsch

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