Diane Ackerman Quotes

I'm not an idiot. Everything is calculated that I do.

Let no act be done without purpose.

Advise well before you begin, and when you have maturely considered, then act with promptitude.

Rational behavior requires theory. Reactive behavior requires only reflex action.

Everything's intentional. It's just filling in the dots.

Anything I do, I always have a reason for.

Few things are brought to a successful issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm and prudent forethought.

Everything that I decide to do means something, otherwise I don't do them.

Where men of judgment creep and feel their way, The positive pronounce without dismay.

I never do anything by chance.

One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.

They are circumspect to do their actions by advise and councell, and not rashly or inconsiderately

When something is so hot, I don't want to just jump on it right away. I want to take it home and make sure I give it my best shot.

Everything I do is premeditated.

I don't do anything unless I think about it six months in advance.

Each decision we make, each action we take, is born out of an intention.

Human freedom involves our capacity to pause between the stimulus and response and, in that pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight. The capacity to create ourselves, based upon this freedom, is inseparable from consciousness or self-awareness. (p. 100)

Let us distinguish between acting intentionally and acting deliberately or on purpose, as far as this can be done by attending to what language can teach us.

It's safer to do nothing and know why you doing it, than to do something and don't know why you do it.

Action without thought is empty. Thought without action is blind.

INTENTION, n. The mind's sense of the prevalence of one set of influences over another set; an effect whose cause is the imminence, immediate or remote, of the performance of an involuntary act.

To live consciously means to seek to be aware of everything that bears on our actions, purposes, values, and goals—to the best of our ability, whatever that ability may be—and to behave in accordance with that which we see and know.

I would like to think there is a reason and a choice behind everything.

If there is something you choose to experience in your life, do not "want" it-choose it.

We shall make progress towards Swaraj only if we do everything thoughtfully and with understanding.