I won't jump two-footed into something without really thinking about it.
Stand-up is cool. In stand-up, you get to learn about yourself if you do it from a thoughtful place.
I've worked with some of the greatest filmmakers in the history of the medium, and they all have something in common: a quality that is creative, comfortable, and thoughtful.
The race isn't to the swift, it's to the thoughtful.
Whoever is providing leadership needs to be as fresh and thoughtful and reflective as possible to make the very best fight.
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.
Those who are guided by reason are generally successful in their plans; those who are rash and precipitate seldom enjoy the favour of the gods.
Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time.
The rule for every worthwhile man is that no serious job ever shall receive less than his best thought and effort.
I've taken Saturdays to be the day I pull back completely. I do things that are more creative, and I've actually found that helps me when I get back into work to be more thoughtful, and I truly believe that feeding your creative soul is really important to being more analytical.
At Nintendo, we think deeply about everything.
It's a surer way to a woman's heart to be interested in what she's thinking than what she's wearing or not wearing.
When I say right, it just has to be well thought out. I feel like I'm on a pretty good roll, and it can't be me trying to force what might be perceived to be next.
If I had to create a god, I would lend him a “slow understanding”: a kind of drip-by-drip understanding of problems. People who understand quickly frighten me.
The danger of what's happening right now in terms of using reconciliation is, the purpose of the Senate is going to be defeated. And that is to bring consensus to big issues in this country so that we have a reasoned and thoughtful approach and that the American public buys into it.
I have a philosophy that has guided me throughout all of my scientific career, and that is, I think of myself as a fairly thoughtful person. I don't go into projects impetuously, and I try to select important problems.
State of the Culture' is more mature content. We want to go as deep as we can on whatever the subject matter is, we're not there to joke.
Here in Italy, football is more like a chess game. You have to think about every move.
There is a tremendous amount of support for the approach we have taken, which again is to base our decisions on risk analysis and thoughtful scientific process.
When you become sufficiently expert in the state of the art, you stop picking ideas at random. You are thoughtful in how to select ideas and how to combine ideas. You are thoughtful about when you should be generating many ideas versus pruning down ideas.
A valiant man Ought not to undergo, or tempt a danger, But worthily, and by selected ways, He undertakes with reason, not by chance. His valor is the salt t' his other virtues, They're all unseason'd without it.
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.
If I were to try to describe the way in which I write, the only word I would use without qualification is 'slowly.'
When Dad made a decision, whether it was about family or his own career, the majority of the time, it was for the long term, not the short term.
Prudent men lock up their motives, letting familiars have a key to their hearts, as to their garden.
