Top 1200 Thoughtful People Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

When the public starts classifying you as thoughtful, someone given to serious issues, you find yourself declassified as a humorist.

By slow, thoughtful watching, you can gain much, as against working up a wild, panicky condition.

Of course he despised the world as a whole; every thoughtful man should; it is almost a test of refinement.

Accommodation to change, the thoughtful pursuit of alternative futures are keys to the survival of civilization and perhaps of the human species.

It is very significant that some of the most thoughtful and cultured men are partisans of a pure vegetable diet

President Obama is funny, he's thoughtful, he's challenging, he's fun to work with - and it's been an extraordinary privilege.

I try to be thoughtful about spreading the wealth: young designers. Mixing things up is important to me.

sensitive," I tried. Sam translated, "squishy." "creative." "Dangerously Emo." "thoughtful." Feng shui.

I'm progressive in some ways, old-fashioned in others. I like it when guys hold the door open and are sweet and thoughtful.

I used to make snap judgments, moved quickly. It's more important to be thoughtful, think of the consequences of your decisions.

Time and fevers burn away Individual beauty from Thoughtful children, and the grave Proves the child ephemeral

God exist whether or not men may choose to believe in Him. The reason why many people do not believe in God is not so much that it is intellectually impossible to believe in God, but because belief in God forces that thoughtful person to face the fact that he is accountable to such a God.

Research shows that the deciscions of a group as a whole are more thoughtful and creative when there is minority dissent than when it is absent.

It is by thoughtful reflection that the elusive moments of the past draw near to us in present reality and gain a measure of permanence.

Any Supreme Court confirmation needs to be a thoughtful process, with full respect for the separation of powers outlined in the Constitution.

I'm incredibly articulate, thoughtful and moral, and I think about what I do. I want to be known for doing something good.

I was living in Paris, which is a very beautiful, very wonderful place, but a tight place as a city, a tight place culturally. Its people are very brilliant, thoughtful, the place functions, but it's a historical place in some ways, like a big museum.

Yet compared with the serious things of life, fishing is after all rather trivial. The thoughtful angler must frankly confess this.

We succeed, not alone by the laborious exertions of our faculties, be they small or great, but by the regular, thoughtful and systematic exercise of them.

Religion becomes a hollow shell of its former self when ritual remains and thoughtful reflection disappears.

Whoever is providing leadership needs to be as fresh and thoughtful and reflective as possible to make the very best fight.

But there is more to a fine photograph than information. We are also seeking to present an image that arouses the curiosity of the viewer or that, best of all, provokes the viewer to think-to ask a question or simply to gaze in thoughtful wonder. We know that photographs inform people. We also know that photographs move people. The photograph that does both is the one we want to see and make. It is the kind of picture that makes you want to pick up your own camera again and go to work.

Americans don't speak foreign languages, by and large. Their interest in anything beyond the borders of the country is limited. A European of any cultivation has to speak a couple of languages; he inevitably without being very thoughtful about it gets to understand what other people think about him.

I grew up in Denmark and was fortunate enough to have access to good schools and thoughtful teachers.

I don't put pictures of my children on, rarely, I think I've done it twice? I'm thoughtful about that, because I don't think you can get it back, and I don't think it's fair to people to try to convey a desire to maintain some privacy and then share pictures and expect that somebody else won't want the same ability.

There ought to be a thoughtful welfare-reform debate that doesn't turn into something that could be called scapegoating.

I think coming to work and being absurd and neurotic and thoughtful at the same time is far more interesting.

Thoughtful education programs and access to effective forms of contraception are key to preventing unplanned pregnancy.

I like the values associated with a medical family - common sense, being practical but also thoughtful.

Try everything that can be done. Be deliberate. Be spontaneous. Be thoughtful and painstaking. Be abandoned and impulsive. Learn your own possibilities.

I love that Cuties is sustainable. They use good ingredients. They're a really thoughtful brand. And I like that they don't leak.

Sometimes the way through someone's tough outer shell is to do something obvious, thoughtful and sweet.

I see young people being dismissed for supposedly wanting only "stupid" and "easy" material, or that they don't have an attention span longer than three minutes. I disagree with all those statements; I just think they aren't true. I'm saying that our generation wants stuff that is substantial and challenging, as well as thoughtful and endearing. Well, I don't know if I'm doing that, but I'm trying.

I am thoughtful about introducing terms that tend to be in circulation primarily in academic circles. "Homonormativity" and "homonationalism" are by no means solely academic terms, and in fact circulate in important ways in many activist circles, but in general I find them to be terms that most people I meet are not familiar with.

You still want to be thoughtful about what you do, no doubt, but you have to learn through trial-and-error experimentation as well.

I do believe in God. I was raised Catholic. For me, personally, I was always very thoughtful about projects that I chose for myself.

At the heart of the failure of most plays is the inability to carry on a thoughtful conversation about your work with yourself.

Meat is complicated. We have to be thoughtful about the ecosystem that we're living in and not to destroy it because of the instant gratification and the demand of others.

I think we all do have a guardian angel. I believe they work through us all the time, when we are thoughtful and good and kind to each other.

I've always believed that no subject is off-limits as long as you can find a way to make it significant, thoughtful, and interesting.

Elephants are social, thoughtful animals. They live in communities and - I have to say it - in matriarchal societies. They bear no grudge, but they remember well.

Education is man's going forward from cocksure ignorance to thoughtful uncertainty.Where there is an open mind there will always be a frontier.

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

Develop the wise art of being radically truthful and remaining considerate, thoughtful, and safe.

Barack Obama is an incredibly intelligent, thoughtful, decisive person in pursuing the agenda he sets.

We are very, very thoughtful about once an economic system creates maldistribution of wealth, thinking about how we redistribute it, but we need to pay attention to why that system is excluding people to create that maldistribution in the first place.

Speaker Ryan's vision for a confident America, both at home and abroad, reflects his thoughtful leadership.

The way that you eliminate bad and ugly is either through activism and policy making that never tolerates evil -- instead of the liberal politically correct policy of accepting evil and accepting other points of views that destroy lives. We the thoughtful, productive people of American have got to take our freedom back.

Thoughtful criticism and close scrutiny of all government officials by the press and the public are an important part of our democratic society.

I love Alton Brown's show 'Good Eats,' about the chemistry of food. It's really thoughtful.

One of the things about leadership is that you cannot be a moderate, balanced, thoughtful, careful articulator of policy. You've got to be on the lunatic fringe.

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.

Republicans and Democrats know Xavier Becerra to be a thoughtful leader who is always willing to listen to both sides.

I hear [my Twitter followers] say, you know, 'Bob Rae, you're an asshole'. [...] I'm working my way and trying to represent the people and speaking in Question Period and here we have vox populi, the thoughtful man on the street, 'you are an asshole!'. Thank you very much. I read it on my Twitter and I get up and ask a question.

Regulators are going to have to come up with a way to treat Bitcoin that is balanced and thoughtful but also recognize that this is a global phenomenon.

Leadership is loud. It is quiet. It is thoughtful and emotional and cerebral and nerdy and goofy and joyful and motivating.

Does the thoughtful man suppose that...the present experiment in civilization is the last world we will see?

Valentine's Day gifts like teddy bears, chocolate and perfume are SO lame. How about be thoughtful and original?

Violence is interesting. This is a great obstacle to world peace and also to more thoughtful television programming.

I need the spiritual revival that comes from spending quiet time alone with Jesus in prayer and in thoughtful meditation on His Word.