Caution Quotes - Page 11

• Caution is an important quality in a leader, but it has to be caution followed by decision. Caution followed by ambivalence can be a weakness.

  Leon Panetta

  Decision, Leader, Important

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I'm interested in taboos for certain reasons. They can dramatise things and they're scary, and they're important to think about. I'm also wary about the fact that if you don't proceed with caution and understand what you're doing, you understand these things are realities that you're dealing with, they're real things.

  Bo Burnham

  Real, Thinking, Scary

  Source: thelatest.co.uk

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• The Christians and the Jews do not believe that the Bible is the verbatim words of God. In fact it is clear that the books of the Bible are written by men - allegedly inspired men - but humans nonetheless. God in the Bible is spoken of in third person. This gives the believer a degree of caution. If the writers of the Bible were humans and humans are fallible, the Bible should not be taken literally. It is possible to interpret it, use one's logic to understand it in the light of science and adapt its teachings to meet the needs of the time.

  Ali Sina

  Christian, Believe, Book

  Source: myislam.dk

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• Once when I went over my work with my Washington University professor, the late great Stanley Elkin, he pointed to a passage of mine and said: Stop vamping. It has remained a caution.

  Adam Ross

  University Professors, Said, Late

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• But let me offer a word of caution. If you choose to give from your heart, be careful. The most incredible feeling might just overwhelm you. And if you continue in this behavior, that feeling may become permanent.

  Steve Goodier

  Heart, Giving, Feelings

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• Every individual taste, every natural appetite, was bridled by caution. The people asleep in those houses, I thought, tried to live like the mice in their own kitchens; to make no noise, to
  leave no trace, to slip over the surface of things in the dark.

  Willa Cather

  Dark, People, House

  Willa Cather (2016). “My çntonia”, p.124, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• I regret the unhappiness of princes who are slaves to forms and fettered by caution.

  Elizabeth I

  Regret, Slave, Unhappiness

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• The essence of spirit ... was to choose the thing which did not better one's position but made it more perilous. That was why the world he knew was poor, for it insisted morality and caution were identical.

  Norman Mailer

  Essence, World, Spirit

  Norman Mailer (1972). “Existential errands”, Signet

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• Beauty is a dangerous word. Beauty becomes slightly indulgent for me. It's a snatched kind of moment for me because I'm entitled to a nice day in my life but beauty creeps close to narcissism, which I really dislike, particularly in human beings who were born with good looks, who cash in on it. It's a bit of a dodgy word for me. I look at it with caution. It can be a bit like walking into quicksand; it can get you in to all kinds of trouble.

  Don McCullin

  Nice, Narcissism, Kind

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• When it comes to deciding to use the Bomb, a personality that is calm, clear and measured would seem to inspire more confidence that caution would be employed.

  Donald Trump

  Personality, Inspire, Would Be

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• If you've heard Hillary Clinton's recent remarks on Ritalin and other drug use on children, you'll find the usual nauseating demagoguery. She appears to be urging Ritalin caution; but, if you listen carefully, she's calling it a miracle drug: "A Godsend for emotional and behavioral problems, for both children and their parents." She insists her efforts are not an attack on the medical treatment of children's emotional well-being because the drugs are very, very "useful."

  Peter Breggin

  Children, Emotional, Drug Use

  Source: whale.to

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• I also love a film by Ang Lee - "Lust, Caution."

  Meital Dohan

  Lust, Film

  Interview with Anthony Statler, www.bullz-eye.com. November 16, 2009.

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• I'm not on Twitter. In theory, I really like Instagram. I think it's a warmer environment. I think, though conversations can erupt that aren't always friendly, you have an opportunity to jump in and redirect and even caution people against language and behavior that I personally object to.

  Sarah Jessica Parker

  Opportunity, Thinking, People

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• Caution is the instinct of the weaker animal.

  Catharine Sedgwick

  Animal, Weakness, Instinct

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• Referendums are a democratic instrument, but so are decisions reached in a parliamentary democracy. I advise extreme caution when it comes to referendums. In Germany too.

  Martin Schulz

  Decision, Democracy, Germany

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Overachievement is aimed at people who want to maximize their potential. And to do that, I insist you throw caution to the wind, ignore the pleas of parents, coaches, spouses, and bosses to be "realistic." Realistic people do not accomplish extraordinary things because the odds against success stymie them. The best performers ignore the odds. I will show you that instead of limiting themselves to what's probable, the best will pursue the heart-pounding, exciting, really big, difference-making dreams-so long as catching them might be possible.

  John Eliot

  Inspirational, Dream, Heart

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• I'm an artist living in a small, Scottish village. So one would expect to be treated with some sort of caution. And the village and the farmers have shown enormous tolerance of me and interest in what I do. I mean, they don't necessarily understand what I'm doing all the time. But they, you know, I think they respect what I do and that there is a connection between what they do with the land and what I do, you know, that we're both dependent on weather and respond to that.

  Andy Goldsworthy

  Mean, Thinking, Artist

  "Sculptor Turns Rain, Ice And Trees Into 'Ephemeral Works'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. October 8, 2015.

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• I do think Russian foreign policy is very savvy. There's a need for great caution because the Russians are able to discreetly blackmail countries.

  Vaclav Havel

  Country, Thinking, Able

  Source: www.rferl.org

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• We've long known that firms can pay higher wages if they spend less on workplace safety enhancement. Libertarians ask, "If a worker is willing to accept higher wages in return for his agreement to exercise greater caution while performing his job, why should the government prevent him from making that choice?" It's a rhetorically powerful question, yet it overlooks the fact that the agreement in question will have adverse effects on others.

  Robert H. Frank

  Jobs, Powerful, Exercise

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• In Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury raised cautions against mass media, especially the television, which dumb down human sensibilities and coerce everybody's thoughts into a single uniform value, allowing human to forget the fundamental action of "having one's opinion". As a result, the society deteriorates. I decided to exhibit [Edward] Kienholz's work which features television as its subject, as well as the Big Double Cross as works that represent this warning.

  Yasumasa Morimura

  Media, Dumb, Fundamentals

  Source: u-in-u.com

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• I am certainly not proposing that we wait passively for the people in power to change their minds. I think we need to be confrontational, to expose the truth in ways that are uncomfortable and that, yes, require courage. What I caution against is using hateful rhetoric to inspire action, and I see a lot of that today. We strengthen the underlying field of hatred, dehumanization, and conquest. It certainly doesn't engage what allows people to do courageous things and to commit deeply, which is the experience of beauty, love, grief.

  Charles Eisenstein

  Grief, Thinking, People

  Source: www.mindfulnessbell.org

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• I caution anyone who in their protest becomes the very thing that they're protesting against. Meaning turning to hateful speech, violating principles and ideals that are sacred in America. We need to raise our voices, but we do not need to indulge in hate.

  Cory Booker

  Hate, Protest, Indulge

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Composers are influenced by all the important music in their lives - and I suppose that since radio started playing popular music, that's as likely to be The Beatles or Aphex Twin as it is to be Verdi or Ravel. They'd be strange teenagers if they didn't. But cross-pollinating happens too - Aphex Twin did more interesting things with electronic music than most trained composers, who seemed to approach samplers with undue caution and reverence in those early days.

  Jonny Greenwood

  Teenager, Interesting, Important

  Source: thequietus.com

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• We don't want to make a mistake. Would you rather make the mistake and err on the side of caution or wait until something happens and then answer to the American people, why you didn't vet these people properly?

  Ted Yoho

  Mistake, People, Waiting

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• On areas like abortion where there is major disagreement among the mainstream religious groups in the Judeo-Christian tradition, I believe that requires a lot more caution. The Jewish position on abortion is very different from the Roman Catholic position. That is reason to be cautious about enacting laws rather than saying to the religious group: instruct your followers on these matters as matters of personal religious belief.

  Bruce Babbitt

  Religious, Believe, Abortion

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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