Caution Quotes - Page 13

• Make all approaches to the stream with care and caution. Remember that once you are seen you are a great disadvantage if not completely defeated

  Ray Bergman

  Fishing, Rivers, Lakes

  Ray Bergman (2000). “Trout”, p.359, Derrydale Press

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• Popular culture as a whole is popular, but in today's fragmented market it's a jostle of competing unpopular popular cultures. As the critic Stanley Crouch likes to say, if you make a movie and 10 million people go see it, you'll gross $100 million - and 96 per cent of the population won't have to be involved. That alone should caution anyone about reading too much into individual examples of popular culture.

  Mark Steyn

  Reading, People, Example

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• It is important, likewise, that the habits of thinking in a free Country should inspire caution in those entrusted with its administration, to confine themselves within their respective Constitutional spheres; avoiding in the exercise of the Powers of one department to encroach upon another.

  George Washington

  Country, Exercise, Thinking

  United States. President, George Washington, United States (1825). “The speeches, addresses and messages, of the several presidents of the United States, at the openings of Congress and at their respective inaugurations: Also, the Declaration of independence, the Constitution of the United States, and Washington's farewell address to his fellow-citizens”, p.106

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• There is a time on every job where you say, screw caution. I'm not foolhardy. I'm not stupid. But sometimes you have to be the battering ram.

  Jeff Abbott

  Jobs, Stupid, Rams

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• Now we will no longer concede so easily that anyone has the truth; the rigorous methods of inquiry have spread sufficient distrust and caution, so that we experience every man who represents opinions violently in word and deed as any enemy of our present culture, or at least as a backward person. And in fact, the fervor about having the truth counts very little today in relation to that other fervor, more gentle and silent, to be sure, for seeking the truth, a search that does not tire of learning afresh and testing anew.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Enemy, Culture

  "Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits". Book by Friedrich Nietzsche, transl. by Helen Zimmern, Section IX, "Man Alone with Himself"/ aphorism 633, 1909-1913.

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• So the first step out of childhood is made all at once, without looking before or behind, without caution, and nothing held in reserve.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Childhood, Firsts, Steps

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2012). “The Farthest Shore”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• A life of unremitting caution, without the carefree - or even, occasionally, the careless - may turn out to be half a life.

  Anna Quindlen

  Inspirational, Half, May

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• So my message is in whichever realm, be it going into space or going into the deep sea, you have to balance the yin and yang of caution and boldness, risk aversion and risk taking, fear and fearlessness. No great accomplishment takes place, whether it be a movie or a deep ocean expedition, or a space mission, without a kind of dynamic equipoise between the two. Luck is not a factor. Hope is not a strategy. Fear is not an option.

  James Cameron

  Ocean, Sea, Two

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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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• There are 5,000 great people for every jerk on Usenet. But that still is a lot of jerks. Proceed with caution and eyes wide open.

  Don Rittner

  Eye, People, Internet

  Don Rittner (1999). “The IMac Book”, Coriolis Group

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• It's important that we attempt to extend life beyond Earth now. It is the first time in the four billion-year history of Earth that it's been possible, and that window could be open for a long time - hopefully it is - or it could be open for a short time. We should err on the side of caution and do something now.

  Elon Musk

  Years, Long, Important

  "Uberpreneurs: How to Create Innovative Global Businesses and Transform Human Societies". Book by Peter Andrews and Fiona Wood, December 8, 2013.

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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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• I've never been much for self-revelation. In two decades of public life, I always approached the limelight with extreme caution. Not that I kept my personal life off-limits; rather, the personal life I put on display was a blend of fact and fiction.

  James McGreevey

  Self, Two, Fiction

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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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• 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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• 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'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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• One of the things that I think you see sometimes in politics is a certain degree of caution. It's usually advised by consultants who don't want to see you march to the end of a limb.

  Elizabeth Edwards

  Thinking, Degrees, Want

  "Elizabeth Edwards: Resilience Remembered". www.npr.org. December 8, 2010.

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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 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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• Caution is the instinct of the weaker animal.

  Catharine Sedgwick

  Animal, Weakness, Instinct

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• I constantly caution our teams: 'Play your game, just play your game. Eventually, if you play your game, stick to your style, class will tell in the end.' This does not mean that we will always outscore our opponent, but it does insure that we will not beat ourselves.

  John Wooden

  Sports, Team, Mean

  John Wooden, Jack Tobin, Bill Walton (2004). “They Call Me Coach”, McGraw Hill Professional

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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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