Careful Evaluation Quotes

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.

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.

The advice of friends must be received with a judicious reserve; we must not give ourselves up to it and follow it blindly, whether right or wrong.

We can never know that a piece of writing is bad unless we have begun by trying to read it as if it was very good and ended by discovering that we were paying the author an undeserved compliment.

Do not believe hastily.

Never commit yourself to a cheese without having first examined it.

Cautiousness in judgment is nowadays to be recommended to each and every one: if we gained only one incontestable truth every ten years from each of our philosophical writers the harvest we reaped would be sufficient.

The purely agitation attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.

I only change things where I know about a situation. I'd never change just for change.

Those who are close to me know that I am a person who likes to analyse everything before making a decision.

Having grown up as a young Army officer in the Vietnam era, I had an instinctual sort of notion that you have to look very carefully and weigh very carefully what anyone says.