Once I realized that right thinking is vital to victorious living, I got more serious about thinking about what I was thinking about, and choosing my thoughts carefully.
My feeling is if you're going to be a leader, you have to carefully assess where people are and where people want to go.
In general, any incoming administration must carefully examine ('vet') its nominees for high public office.
We live fragmented, compartmentalized lives in which contradictions are carefully sealed off from each other. We have been taught to think linearly rather than comprehensively, and we do this not through conscious design or because we are not intelligent or capable, but because of the way in which deep cultural undercurrents structure life in subtle but highly consistent ways that are not consciously formulated.
The best calculation is the absence of calculation. Once you have attained a certain level of recognition, others generally figure that when you do something, it's for an intelligent reason. So it's really foolish to plot out your movements too carefully in advance. You're better off acting capriciously.
It is my business, to manage carefully and dexterously whatever happens
I have noticed that if you look carefully at people's eyes the first five seconds they look at you, the truth of their feelings will shine through for just an instant before it flickers away.
Art begs you to notice it. Why? Because art is God's way of saying hello. So pay attention to poetry. Pay attention to music. Pay attention to paintings and sculptures and photo exhibits and ballets and plays. Don't let all this go unnoticed. Your world is shouting out to you, revealing something intrinsically glorious about itself. Listen carefully. Love art, the way art loves life.
To be smart, spend carefully. To be wise, save regularly. To be genius, give extravagantly.
I have to go over my carefully prepared ad-libs.
Something you want badly enough can always be gained. No matter how fierce the enemy, how remote the beautiful lady, or how carefully guarded the treasure, there is always a means to the goal for the earnest seeker. The unseen help of the guardian gods of heaven and earth assure fulfillment.
I planned my death carefully, unlike my life, which meandered along from one thing to another, despite my feeble attempts to control it.
Choose your friends carefully. They are a reflection of you.
I choose my work very carefully, always for the script and the director, and I don't think that's going to change. My work is like a house. It's built on very strong poles.
I have often heard that the outstanding man is he who thinks deeply about a problem, and the next is he who listens carefully to advice.
Yes, I have a lot of business interests. But I don't work for just anyone, and I choose the companies very carefully.
You might not have the things you want, but if you check carefully, you got all you need.
Women should not weaken their cause by impracticable demands. Make no claim which could not be won in a reasonable time. Take onestep at a time, get a good foothold in it and advance carefully.
There are too many people sympathetic to radical Islam. We should be looking at them more carefully and finding out how we can infiltrate them.
Deliberate before you begin; but, having carefully done so, execute with vigour.