Careful Quotes

• Sequencing - the careful striptease by which you reveal information to the reader - matters in an article, but it is absolutely essential to a book.

  

  Joshua Foer
  • Book
  • Information
  • Essentials

• Don't solicit feedback on your product, idea or your business just for validation purposes. You want to tell the people who can help move your idea forward, but if you're just looking to your friend, co-worker, husband or wife for validation, be careful. It can stop a lot of multimillion-dollar ideas in their tracks in the beginning.

  

  Sara Blakely
  • People
  • Wife
  • Purpose

• Be careful what you shoot at . . . most things in here don't react too well to bullets.

  

  Sean Connery
  • Shoot
  • React
  • Bullets

• Be careful what you yearn for, because that which you desire most will either complete you or destroy you, and you don't get to choose.

  

  William Lashner
  • Desire
  • Careful

• Love is sublime, truly, a precious gift. But also, alas, one of God's little pranks. It's naive of you to confuse love with happiness, as if they were somehow the samae thing. In fact love, once found, is more akin to gravity: too strong, too close, and it will crush you. Unless you're careful, always.

  

  Wil McCarthy
  • Strong
  • Thing
  • Found

• You don't want to be rude but you have to be careful - there are a lot of strange people out there. (Goldman attributes this quote to Cliff Robertson.)

  

  William Goldman
  • People
  • Strange
  • Rude

• Society can give its young men almost any job and they'll figure how to do it. They'll suffer for it and die for it and watch their friends die for it, but in the end, it will get done. That only means that society should be careful about what it asks for. ... Soldiers themselves are reluctant to evaluate the costs of war, but someone must. That evaluation, ongoing and unadulterated by politics, may be the one thing a country absolutely owes the soldiers who defend its borders.

  

  Sebastian Junger
  • Country
  • War
  • Mean

• If it takes you 20 or 25 years to establish yourself in one field, you really ought to be careful not to stray too far.

  

  Joshua Lederberg
  • Years
  • Fields
  • Ought

• Be as careful of the books you read as the company you keep.

  

  Edwin Paxton Hood
  • Book
  • Company
  • Library

• Sometimes I feel like every movie I make could be the last. I know that's not really the case, but if I think about it that way and I'm very careful, then maybe I can build a career, movie by movie, that I'm happy with.

  

  Casey Affleck
  • Feels
  • Careers
  • Cases

• Life changes when you have a child, when you have your own family. You become more careful about what you do. You're not going to be out late, going out to clubs, hanging out with your friends. You're going to be at home, taking care of your daughter, playing with her.

  

  Paul Pierce
  • Life
  • Children
  • Home

• Be careful going in search of adventure - it's ridiculously easy to find.

  

  William Lewis Trogdon
  • Travel
  • Easy
  • Adventure

• You have to be very careful with women friends.

  

  Heather Locklear
  • Careful
  • Women Friends

• Our borders are much too porous...We want to keep them open, but we also have to be much more careful. ...Right now, if you get on an airplane to the U.S. and claim asylum...when you arrive at Kennedy Airport in New York, they will say to you, 'OK, we'll give you a hearing on whether you deserve asylum. Show up in a year.' And two-thirds of the people never show up.

  

  Charles Schumer
  • Immigration
  • Deserve
  • Airplane

• Let's be careful when we start comparing American to European tolerance because there isn't necessarily a lot of European tolerance.

  

  Montel Williams
  • Tolerance
  • Europe
  • Careful

• I think people are more in contact now with the consequences of war than they've been for a very long time. And that's what amazes me when sometimes politicians seem to forget their history. They don't look and re-learn about what has happened before. Maybe they haven't got the memory, maybe they're already too young, but you can see how we become puffed up, and how we as a nation rise so quickly if we're not careful.

  

  Michael Morpurgo
  • War
  • Sometimes
  • Memories

• We have to be careful about creating more rules.

  

  Paul Parker
  • Rules
  • Creating
  • Careful

• Be careful. I wouldn’t want anything to happen to the worst Spanish student in the history of the language.” I laughed. “No problemo.

  

  Kiersten White
  • Language
  • Students
  • Worst

• We have to stop making excuses. One of the things that I'm careful to show is the horrendous effects of institutional and structural racism, but in the end, you can't wait for white man or a Black man to come riding in on a white horse to save you. We have to save ourselves, and that's the lesson of "The African Americans."

  

  Henry Louis Gates
  • Men
  • Black
  • Waiting

• You have to be careful what you think you know.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • Careful

• I worry because I care. Gods help me, I know I shouldn't, but I do. So I will always tell you to be careful, because I will always care what happens.

  

  Sarah J. Maas
  • Worry
  • Happens
  • Gods

• I think we've, again, got to be extremely careful; otherwise we'll misunderstand what's going on in Iraq and in Syria today. Of course, you can't say that those of us who removed Saddam in 2003 bear no responsibility for the situation in 2015.

  

  Tony Blair
  • Today
  • Responsibility
  • Situation

• The difference between a stranger sending you a message that you might be interested in at a very low volume level, no repetition, just sending it to very few people, and that being done as spam - those things get close enough that you want to be careful never to filter out something that's legitimate.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Message
  • Careful
  • Spam

• Be careful in your life, Tolui. I want you fit and strong for when I come for you.

  

  Conn Iggulden
  • Life
  • Strong
  • You

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