Avraham Burg Quotes

Everything that Marvel does, it's a chess move. Nothing is by accident.

Good things, you can't rush into them.

I belong to the just-wait-a-minute club.

Members will not stand with their behinds facing the speaker.

Everything appears to take long in Congress. This is democracy in action.

Congress was designed by the Founding Fathers to move slowly, precisely to avoid the sudden panic of a one-week solution that becomes a 20-year mess.

I don't like to rush things.

Something that I tell myself every morning when I wake up is like: "Think it over, take the time to think it over." I don't like spontaneity, there you go. I'm wary of it.

Deliberate before you begin; but, having carefully done so, execute with vigour.

Prudence, like experience, must be paid for.

Prudent, cautious self-control is wisdom's root.

I found that whenever I encountered a situation, rather than just reacting to it, it was tremendously useful to think carefully about how I should react to it and other situations like it. Besides providing me with more thoughtful responses in each of these cases, approaching things this way provided me and others with guidance on how to deal with similar situations when they came up in the future.

I don't guess. I think. I ponder. I deduce. Then I decide. But I never guess.

Prudent and active men, who know their strength and use it with limit and circumspection, alone go far in the affairs of the world.

I think the rules in Congress, and in particular the rules in the Senate, are unbelievably archaic and slow-moving and, in many cases, unfair. In many cases, you're forced to make deals that are not the deal you'd make. You'd make a much different kind of a deal. You're forced into situations that you hate to be forced into.

For if I do something, I never do it thoughtlessly.

People who deliberate fully before they take a step will spend their lives on one leg

I think before I act---and then think again. I am not entirely a coward, but I do not lose myself in action as you do.

Men, to act with vigour and effect, must have time to mature measures, and judgment and experience, as to the best method of applying them. They must not be hurried on to their conclusions by the passions, or the fears of the multitude. They must deliberate, as well as resolve.

One cool judgement is worth a thousand hasty councils.

I have tried to make all my acts and commercial moves the result of definite consideration and sound judgment. There were never any great ventures or risks. I practiced honest, slow-growing business methods, and tried to back them with energy and good system.

Nothing can be done quickly and prudently at the same time.

At no time am I a quick thinker or writer: whatever I have done in science has solely been by long pondering, patience and industry.

What I don't think we should do is panic, and I don't think we should advocate for ideas and plans that will make things worse.

Ponder and deliberate before you make a move.