A Quote by Robert Metcalfe

I consider what I write to be literature. I choose the words carefully. — © Robert Metcalfe
I consider what I write to be literature. I choose the words carefully.
Words are an invitation to life, a request to bring energy into form. Choose your words carefully.
I have to consider the amount of business that my name can do and choose my projects carefully.
Today we are going to talk about words. You know, words are containers for power. They carry creative or destructive power. They carry positive or negative power. We can choose our words and we should do it carefully.
Mentorship is an incredibly huge responsibility. And you need to choose your mentors carefully, just like mentors choose their apprentices carefully. There has to be trust there, on a very deep level.
People, please remember that I choose my words very carefully. Assumptions are your enemy.
The Lord's Prayer is 66 words, the Gettysburg Address is 286 words, there are 1.322 words in the Declaration of Independence, but government regulations on the sale of cabbage total 26.911 words. The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
There is a responsibility as president to choose your words carefully, especially on foreign policy, and to speak as clearly as possible.
You don't buy all the clothes in the market. You choose slowly and carefully, asking the prices for each before buying. The same way you choose your friends, by looking into their lives carefully, before taking any as a companion, then dropping those that are not relevant.
Carefully observe oneself and one's situation, carefully observe others, and carefully observe one's environment. Consider fully, act decisively.
Certain times, I'll choose my words very carefully and maybe come off a little more boring.
One has to work very carefully with what is in between the words. What is not said. Which is measure, which is rhythm and so on. So, it is what you don't write that frequently gives what you do write its power.
South African literature is a literature in bondage. It is a less-than-fully-human literature. It is exactly the kind of literature you would expect people to write from prison.
Only you can determine your choice of attitude. Choose wisely, choose carefully, choose confidently!
I must choose my words carefully in order to avoid any negative interpretation. Among politicians, this is a tactic known as lying.
I have to choose my words carefully because I don't want to sound like one of those who goes on about how things were better in my day.
I was about to write that in the future I would chose my words more carefully but I'm sure I won't.
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