Deliberate Process Quotes

Any decision made by my father was the result of a process that had involved many voices and which sometimes had taken weeks or months.

Strategic thinking rarely occurs spontaneously

I don't believe in making a record and rushing it.

The example of changing a constitution by assembling the wise men of the state, instead of assembling armies, will be worth as much to the world as the former examples we had give them. The constitution, too, which was the result of our deliberation, is unquestionably the wisest ever yet presented to men.

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.

But making big decisions shouldn't be easy - it shouldn't be that you have an idea, and you get to execute it without anyone questioning it.

For me, being a writer is not an altered state. It's very ponderous, and very - it's like being a shoemaker.

I am someone who likes to take my time. I do one album in three years, unlike others.

I will not let anyone carry out hasty legislation … It must be done with reverence, slowly, one step at a time.