Think Carefully Quotes

#1. Do you have a problem? Think carefully! Is it really a problem or is it just your mind's invention, your mind's exaggeration? Is your problem really a problem? Think carefully, because mostly it is not!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#2. Choose a subject equal to your abilities; think carefully what your shoulders may refuse, and what they are capable of bearing.

Horace

#3. Seven Ways to Live Your Life:
Love unconditionally
Forgive kindly
Live profoundly
Give joyfully
Think carefully
Hug compassionately
Inspire passionately

Debasish Mridha

#4. Think carefully, Gideon. I have exes in my past, too. You're setting the precedent now for how I'll handle them. I'm taking my cues from you.

Sylvia Day

#5. Think carefully before you say them, for once you have taken the black, there is no turning back.

George R R Martin

#6. I'm really all right, she would think, carefully, lightly, as she pulled the key from the ignition, trying not to examine the sensation too closely or lose it with any sudden movement, as if it were a thin-filmed shiny bubble poised in her chest.

Tessa Hadley

#7. Think carefully before asking for justice. Mercy might be safer.

Mason Cooley

#8. In Yosemite, as in life, think carefully before starting a family.

John Siracusa

#9. To succeed in a business project, especially one you're excited about, it helps to think carefully about all the skills you have that could be helpful to others and particularly about the combination of those skills.

Chris Guillebeau

#10. Before sharing interesting information that has not been solicited, think carefully about whether it has the potential to cause distress.

Graeme Simsion

#11. *Appendix usually means "small outgrowth from large intestine," but in this case it means "additional information accompanying main text." Or are those really the same things? Think carefully before you insult this book.

Pseudonymous Bosch

#12. Think carefully. We only have one life to live. We alone are responsible for it.

Ayse Kulin

#13. -"Wow,are we becoming friends?" I asked.
-"Hmmm ... friends." He appeared to think carefully and examined me and my state of blush.
"Yes, I think we are."
-"Interesting. From cockblocker to friend. Not bad." I giggled.

Alice Clayton

#14. Introverts think carefully before they speak. We can be excellent public speakers because we prepare carefully.

Sophia Dembling

#15. You cannot pursue all your goals simultaneously or satisfy all your desires at once. And it's an emotional drain to think you can. Instead, you must focus on long-term fulfillment rather than short-term success and, at various points in your life, think carefully about your priorities.

Eric C. Sinoway

#16. Plus, if you think carefully, when you fall in love with someone not for her lookay, don't you think it's purer? It would last longer as physical aged but personality grows

Evelyn Rose

#17. Think carefully before you issue me a command, Zenobia. For I will do what you tell me, even if I'm the worst possible man for the job.

Libbie Hawker

#18. when a man's only assets are the brain in his head and the
tongue in his mouth, he has to think carefully before he decides
to open that mouth and speak.

Paul Auster

#19. In life it is difficult to find a way of life, but later is much more difficult to stay on that road ... So before any decisions think carefully.

Nikolic Mihajlo

#20. Everything you think today will ultimately reflect in your future. So think carefully, think better.

Debasish Mridha

#21. The manufacturing of most goods harms the environment in one way or another. The culprit is not the factory, but it is we who buy what it produces. Therefore we should think carefully about items we purchase.

Amy Dacyczyn

#22. I have in the past tended to overestimate the amount of change I can affect in the short run and then not fully appreciate the change I can affect in the long run. And so I've learned that it's critical to think carefully about the pace of change, and it's something that I've learned the hard way.

Harry West

#23. Politicians are good at saying how Government must do more, but we must also think carefully about where Government should do less.

Charles Kennedy

#24. When I am writing political op-eds, I do think carefully about the impact of my words. When I am writing fiction, it's a different story. In my fiction I am more reckless. I don't care about the real world until I am done with the book.

Elif Safak

#25. But think carefully on it. Names are not a thing to be rushed. There's power in names.

Melissa Grey

#26. People who cannot distinguish between good and bad language, or who regard the distinction as unimportant, are unlikely to think carefully about anything else.

B.R. Myers

#27. Religious life is about something real in human experience that is not constrained by what Wittgenstein called 'all that is the case'. In this sense Heidegger is not simply 'mistaken' - he just asks us, as philosophers mostly do, to think more carefully about what we're saying.

George Pattison

#28. Raising taxes is not a frivolous venture that you do on the editorial page of 'The New Republic,' for god sakes. It's something that you really have to think about and go through carefully.

Arthur Laffer

#29. To take each day as a separate page, to be read carefully, savoring all of the details, this is best for me, I think.

Pearl S. Buck

#30. If work is part of your identity, think very carefully before you give it up. Giving it up won't make you a better mother; it will make you less of the person you are; and that will make you less of a mother.

Jean Marzollo

#31. Just as the people who lived through the Second World War thought different things on different days, I think everybody who goes through that period carefully now thinks different things on different days.

Nicholson Baker

#32. When we're young we think everything has to be wrapped up in a month. But you should take the long view on this one. Before you make a move, be sure, Anya. And even once you're sure, tread carefully. And remember you don't have to do what they expect you to do" -Charles Delacroix

Gabrielle Zevin

#33. I think perfectionism is based on the obsessive belief that if you run carefully enough, hitting each stepping-stone just right, you won't have to die.

Anne Lamott

#34. Frankly, as much as I love to improvise, it hasn't been difficult to stick to the script on 'Mad Men.' The writing is so precise, and the story so carefully crafted, that I don't think there's room - or need - for ad libbing. I could never come up with dialogue as lovely as these writers do, anyway.

Rich Sommer

#35. I am very filmmaker oriented, as a producer. I think the most important thing is that you have to really choose the players carefully.

Nina Jacobson

#36. Thinking is the place where intelligent actions begin. We pause long enough to look more carefully at a situation, to see more of its character, to think about why it's happening, to notice how it's affecting us and others.

Margaret J. Wheatley

#37. Would Emma think him too bold for sharing something so intimate with her? She carefully folded the letter and then held up the cross as if admiring it. "This is too special a gift. I couldn't possibly accept - " "Please. I want you

Jody Hedlund

#38. We very often fail to think as carefully about helping others as we could, mistakenly believing that applying data and rationality to a charitable endeavor robs the act of virtue. And that means we pass up opportunities to make a tremendous difference.

William MacAskill

#39. I'm fascinated by rap and by hip-hop. I think there's a lot of poetry in it. There's a lot of anger, a lot of social energy in it. And I think you'd better listen to it pretty carefully, 'cause it's important.

John F. Kerry

#40. But I have tried to go over it very carefully, not merely what the evidence is, but with psychoanalysts and psychologists, and I think we're just about all agreed that Lincoln and Speed did not have a homosexual relationship.

David Herbert Donald

#41. As a journalist, I've always treaded carefully about being Jewish and caring a lot about Israel and having that not become too big of an issue that could affect my journalism. But I also don't think it's essential to my Judaism, as I think it might be for some other people.

David Gregory

#42. [He] carefully put a funky-looking pair of reading glasses on her. "There we go. How are they?"
She blinked experimentally, peering around the room. "Good, I think. Thank you."
"Wear them the next time we f***. That would be thanking me."
"Aww. You say the sweetest things."
"Don't I?

Kylie Scott

#43. To me, it's all about saying "thank you" before you open the gift box. At times, the gift wrap is so beautiful, all I want to do is admire the craftsmanship before very carefully pulling back the tape to see what's inside. I think that pretty much defines how I see people in general.

Jes Fuhrmann

#44. I choose my work very carefully, always for the script and the director, and I don't think that's going to change. My work is like a house. It's built on very strong poles.

Franka Potente

#45. - Is that for me? said he.

- Yes, it's for you.

He took it carefully in his hands, and stroked it.

- Do you think it's nice?

- Nice - why I could go round the world in such.

Knut Hamsun

#46. I found maths very easy, but I still enjoyed discovering things. You have to have the necessary information. For example, what's the difference between the mean and the median? Probability fascinated me. You have to think very carefully about things, which is the way my mind works anyway.

Daniel Tammet

#47. Look, I've always said from the word go many years ago that I felt the whole bonus culture, they need to think very carefully about being detached from the rest of the British public.

Iain Duncan Smith

#48. Anyone who is contemplating going to Afghanistan does need to think very carefully about the consequences, both to them and their families in terms of the grief they may suffer, as well as contemplate the legal action that might follow on their return, if they were to return,

Geoff Hoon

#49. You imagine the carefully pruned, shaped thing that is presented to you is truth. That is just what it isn't. The truth is improbable, the truth is fantastic; it's in what you think is a distorting mirror that you see the truth.

Jean Rhys

#50. I think whites are carefully taught not to recognize white privilege, as males are taught not to recognize male privilege.

Peggy McIntosh

#51. Men," he began his address to the officers, measuring his pauses carefully. "You're American officers. The officers of no other army in the world can make that statement. Think about it.

Joseph Heller

#52. Making a garden is somehow like conducting a symphony - different plants come forward at different times and you need to think very carefully about their placement in relation to each other.

Elisabeth Murdoch

#53. When young people say I want to be a novelist, I'd say, think very carefully about it. There will be very few rewards, you probably won't make any money, you probably won't become famous, and you will spend your whole life locked up in a room by yourself worrying about how to survive.

Paul Auster

#54. Knowing about the neurobiological and evolutionary basis for social behavior can soften the arrogance and self-righteousness that often attends discussions of morality. It may help us all to think a little more carefully and rationally.

Patricia Churchland

#55. One rule of thumb you should use when setting deadlines for yourself is to carefully consider how much time you expect the entire project to take and multiple that number by 1.5. For example, if you think your project is going to take 10 days to complete, plan to give yourself 15 days.

Ric Thompson

#56. It's funny how Merry brings out everyone's jealous side."

I frown. "What's the appeal of a guy who barely reaches your belly button?"

"Think about what you just said. Carefully.

Heather R. Blair

#57. In recent weeks we learned that scientists have created human embryos in test tubes solely to experiment on them. This is deeply troubling, and a warning sign that should prompt all of us to think through these issues very carefully.

George W. Bush

#58. I think one of the shortcomings of reality, of real experience, is most people's inability to examine something carefully and thoughtfully without moving around or being distracted by something else. What photography does really is it forces you to examine something you normally wouldn't.

Grant Mudford

#59. I always think it's important to choose your initial theme very carefully because you're going to be married to it for a long time. You might have to generate an hour's worth of music from a very short, little piece of theme.

Anne Dudley

#60. What was it that motivated you to tidy in the first place? What do you hope to gain through tidying? Before you start getting rid of things, take the time to think this through carefully. This means visualizing the ideal lifestyle you dream of.

Marie Kondo

#61. I think it is more tha6 the sea is a reminder of how little control we have over our own lives no matter how carefully we try to plan and order them. Everything changes in ways we least expect, and everything is frighteningly vast. We are so small.

Mary Balogh

#62. Since we do float on an unknown sea, I think we should examine the other floating things that come our way carefully; who knows what may depend on it?

Elizabeth Bishop

#63. Everything with Marvel is on a need-to-know basis, so I didn't officially know until the second episode I did, which I think was the 10th episode in the season. Information is carefully guarded over there. I definitely didn't know that I was 'Deathlok.'

J. August Richards

#64. We have to rethink our whole energy approach, which is hard to do because we're so dependent on oil, not just for fuel but also plastic. If plastic vanished, there would be total chaos. We have to think quite carefully about using oil and its derivatives, because it's not going to be around forever.

Margaret Atwood

#65. We lead more interesting lives than we think. We are characters in plots, without the compression and numinous sheen. Our lives, examined carefully in all their affinities and links, abound with suggestive meaning, with themes and involute turnings we have not allowed ourselves to see completely.

Don DeLillo

#66. Once all come to know that by the concentration of the mind on one point, on one principle, on one desire, a power is radiated to that point with creative nature and demonstrative abilities, man will think more carefully, more constructively and more efficiently

Harvey Spencer Lewis

#67. I think that Ronald Reagan wanted to hear other people's views, and he always listened carefully, and from time to time he changed his own mind about a position. And especially he took pains to listen carefully to foreign leaders with whom he was dealing.

Jeane Kirkpatrick

#68. Babe, listen to me and listen carefully. If you're in trouble, I'm fucked. I was a goner the moment you smiled at me. I don't think I've ever wanted someone as much as I want you.

Mia Asher

#69. The night was ordinary. It usually is, I think, when your life changes. Most people aren't doing anything special when the carefully placed pieces of their life break apart.

Carole Radziwill

#70. Influential people aren't buffeted by the latest trend or by public opinion. They form their opinions carefully, based on the facts. They're more than willing to change their mind when the facts support it, but they aren't influenced by what other people think - only by what they know.

Travis Bradberry

#71. Banks need to think through their ethics very carefully, and many have done so. I don't know any bank that dismisses the concept of ethical banking.

Justin Welby

#72. I think the intelligent thing about it is that you have to carefully listen to it all to grasp it, and because I'm not in every scene - colossal disappointment to everybody that it may be - I'm not getting the full picture here today while recording it.

Paul Darrow

#73. I grow more and more intrigued by this as I write: how words, even the most carefully chosen, can mean such different things from one person to another, so that others might think about what I write in ways I did not intend at all.

Dawn Hammill

#74. I'm proud of all the movies I've made. They're not sequels, they're not franchises. And the reason I pick my films carefully is that I don't want to spit on my life. I like to think of myself as more than that.

Kevin Costner

#75. Children are trained to think linearly instead of imaginatively; they are taught to read slowly and carefully, and are discouraged from daydreaming. They are trained to reduce the use and capacity of their brain.

Tony Buzan

#76. They think that successful diplomacy requires years of experience and an understanding of all the nuances that have to be carefully considered before reaching a conclusion. Only then do these pinstriped bureaucrats consider taking action.

Donald J. Trump

#77. I don't like food that's too carefully arranged; it makes me think that the chef is spending too much time arranging and not enough time cooking. If I wanted a picture I'd buy a painting.

Andy Rooney

#78. I shouldn't think I'll have the slightest problem playing a man," she said. "I shall merely remember to rearrange my breeches in front at least once an hour, thereby drawing attention to the padding I carefully placed there in the morning, and I'll blend in perfectly.

Eloisa James

#79. You don't have to accept every advice. You must carefully think about it in your quiet moment.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#80. It says somewhere - in the Book of Proverbs, I think - that lying lips are abomination to the Lord, but they that deal truly are his delight. I considered my words carefully before I spoke them.

Alan Bradley

#81. Any carefully planned thing destroys the creativity. You can't think your way through a story; you have to live it. So, you don't build a story; you allow it to explode.

Ray Bradbury

#82. We measure very carefully what the positives are and I think it is less than one tenth of one percent, so we are very pleased with the accuracy of our biometric checks and we continue to monitor that.

Asa Hutchinson

#83. Think of people like bottles full of a liquid inside but without labels; smell the bottle, pour out what is inside and study it carefully. Never mind the labels; pretend that they don't exist! Labels are misleading!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#84. Trying to separate the contributions of nature and nurture to an attribute is rather like trying to separate the contributions of length and width to the area of a rectangle, which at first glance also seems easy. When you think about it carefully, though, it proves impossible.

Paul R. Ehrlich

#85. I work with a lot of mathematicians, and one thing I notice about them is that they are not particularly fast with numbers; in fact some of them are rather slow. This is not a bad thing; they are slow because they think deeply and carefully about mathematics.

Jo Boaler

#86. I think, to me, the sheer joy of fancy dress is that it allows you to take a break from our very carefully considered and constructed identities.

Kate Reardon

#87. Best if you think of this room as a minefield. Tread carefully or get exploded, she advised Jared, and then said aloud, Hideous brats! We have a guest. Conceal evidence of your crimes.

Sarah Rees Brennan

#88. What do you always think about? What do you think you can do easily? What do you find peace in your heart to do? Watch those things carefully because among them is something on which you can turn the entire environment surrounding you for your success.

Israelmore Ayivor

#89. At every turn, girls - even the most carefully raised and deeply loved - are surrounded by a popular culture that exhorts them to think of themselves as sexually disposable creatures.

Caitlin Flanagan

#90. If you want to think new thoughts that are different, then do what creative people do - get the problem reasonably clear and then refuse to look at any answers until you've thought the problem through carefully how you would do it, how you could slightly change the problem to be the correct one.

Richard Hamming

#91. ...a thriller's toughest trick: carefully assembling everything we think we know, until it reveals the one thing we didn't see coming.

Entertainment Weekly

#92. I still think as a painter - especially in terms of structuring a picture ... I carefully choose the models, costumes, requisites, and backdrops of my photographs.

Loretta Lux

#93. I hope people will think very carefully about the future,

Queen Elizabeth II

#94. When there is only a last chance left, think wise and make decisions carefully.

Auliq Ice

#95. I think an important lesson from the game is that once you have made a move, you cannot take it back. You really have to measure your decisions. You think a lot. You evaluate your choices very carefully. There's never any guarantee about what's going to follow once you have made a decision.

Viswanathan Anand

#96. I think that in our society we use the word 'terrorism' a lot - individuals throw the word around a lot without carefully considering it.

Marshall Curry

#97. The years 19 and 20 are a crucial stage in the maturation of character, and if you allow yourself to become warped when you're that age, it will cause you pain when you're older. It's true. So think about it carefully.

Haruki Murakami

#98. Good twists are enormously hard to come by, and I think the best ones are earned ones. The idea that a story can take a left turn on you, it's easy to do, but it has to be done very, very carefully, or else you risk losing the audience's trust.

Damon Lindelof

#99. Next time that somebody tells you something is true, why not say to them: 'What kind of evidence is there for that?' And if they can't give you a good answer, I hope you'll think very carefully before you believe a word they say.

Richard Dawkins

#100. Whenever you see a sweeping statement that a tremendous amount can come from a very small number of assumptions, you always find that it is false. There are usually a large number of implied assumptions that are far from obvious if you think about them sufficiently carefully.

Richard P. Feynman