Deliberation Quotes

“You must understand, young Hobbit, it takes a long time to say anything in Old Entish. And we never say anything unless it is worth taking a long time to say.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers

“Impulsiveness can be charming but deliberation can have an appeal, as well.”
― Sarah Dessen, Along for the Ride

“We Persians have a saying that one should deliberate serious matters first drunk, then sober.”
― Mary Renault, The Persian Boy

“Don't exercise your freedom of speech until you have exercised your freedom of thought.”
― Tim Fargo

“A 'post-truth democracy' [...] would no longer be a democracy.”
― Jürgen Habermas, Between Naturalism and Religion: Philosophical Essays

“Q: What's the biggest myth about writing?
A: That there's any wildness attached to it. Writing tends to be very deliberate."

[Colm Tóibín, novelist – portrait of the artist (The Guardian, 19 February 2013)”
― Colm Tóibín

“…what have you accumulated from the past—what are you in the process of accumulating that will be passed on, if not deliberately, then accidentally? Is this accumulation the best of what has been and the best of what is currently being written, sung, and created? Is it wise? And if not, what will be the next generation’s inheritance, your children’s legacy?”
― Rosalie De Rosset, Unseduced and Unshaken: The Place of Dignity in a Woman's Choices

“slowing down an activity may meet with greater success than doing it quickly.”
― Linda Lantieri, Building Emotional Intelligence: Techiques to Cultivate Inner Strength in Children

“Like everybody who is not in love, he imagined that one chooses the person one loves after endless deliberation and on the strength of diverse qualities and advantages.”
― Marcel Proust, Sodom and Gomorrah

“Stop over-loading yourself with numberless tasks. Give time to yourself for rest and positive deliberations. You can’t think better and plan better when you are under stress!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365

“There is wisdom in always exploring the counterpoint- sometimes a silver cloud has a dark lining too.”
― Gyan Nagpal

“The wise general in his deliberations must consider both favorable and unfavorable factors. He ponders the dangers inherent in the advantages, and the advantages inherent in the dangers.

By taking into account the favorable factors, he makes his plan feasible; by taking into account the unfavorable, he may resolve the difficulties. Advantage and disadvantage are mutually reproductive. The enlightened deliberate.”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

“Destroying oneself, he thought ruefully, should always be done at a deliberate pace.”
― Mark Beauregard, The Whale: A Love Story

“A product should be made intentionally”
― Sunday Adelaja

“I'm in a hole because at some point I found a shovel and started digging. Maybe I should trade my shovels for ladders and start climbing.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Data levels all arguments.”
― Anthony W. Richardson, Full-Scale: How to Grow Any Startup Without a Plan or a Clue

“Reason… suasion. Thought! As always, the answer is in an appeal to rationality!”
― A.D. Aliwat, In Limbo