Cautious Quotes - Page 14

• Watching the Dallas Cowboys perform, it is not difficult to believe that coach Tom Landry flew fourengines bombers during World War II. He was in B17 Flying Fortresses out of England, they say. His cautious, conservative approach to every situation and the complexity of the plays he sends in do seem to reflect the philosophy of a pilot trained to doggedly press on according to plans laid down before takeoff. I sometimes wonder how the Cowboys would have fared all this years had Tom flown fighters in combat situations which dictated continuously changing tactics.

  Len Morgan

  Philosophy, War, Believe

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• Who can hope to be safe? who sufficiently cautious?
  Guard himself as he may, every moment's an ambush.

  Horace

  Safety, May, Moments

  Horace (1872). “The Odes and Epodes of Horace”, p.170

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• It is a right, yes a duty, to search in cautious manner for the numbers, sizes, and weights, the norms for everything [God] has created. For He himself has let man take part in the knowledge of these things ... For these secrets are not of the kind whose research should be forbidden; rather they are set before our eyes like a mirror so that by examining them we observe to some extent the goodness and wisdom of the Creator.

  Johannes Kepler

  Knowledge, Eye, Science

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• The coward regards himself as cautious, the miser as thrifty.

  Publilius Syrus

  Psychology, Coward, Thrifty

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• Be hypocritical, be cautious, be not what you seem but always what you see.

  Lord Byron

  Hypocrisy, Hell, Hypocritical

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.2201, Delphi Classics

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• What more delightful avocation than to take a piece of land and by cautious experimentation to prove how it works. What more substantial service to conservation than to practice it on one's own land?

  Aldo Leopold

  Land, Practice, Pieces

  Aldo Leopold (1992). “The River of the Mother of God: and other Essays by Aldo Leopold”, p.172, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• When life hands us a beutiful bouquet of flowers we stare at it in cautious expectation of a bee.

  Dean Koontz

  Flower, Hands, Expectations

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• Like all biologists I simply acknowledge the gravity of the current situation. There are scenarios under which things work out well and to that extent I'm a cautious optimist.

  Richard Lewontin

  Work Out, Gravity, Currents

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• Be cautious, but not too cautious; do not be too much afraid of making a mistake; a man who never makes a mistake will make nothing.

  John Lubbock

  Mistake, Men, Too Much

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• No more verbally incomprehensible no more devoid of the vision thing and no more the cautious pragmatist proudly displaying the virtues of tradition and the advantages of biological seniority.

  Bob Dole

  Vision, Tradition, Virtue

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• You have to be very cautious about what you are doing for charity and things like that. I think you have to start with your life. I think that's what life is expecting you to do. In your family, in your surroundings, in your work life, in the people you're with, your relationships; how you behave and doing what you need to accomplish. That for me is being a hero every day of your life.

  Juliette Binoche

  Hero, Thinking, People

  "Juliette Binoche in Ann Arbor starring in 'Antigone'". Interview with John Monaghan, www.usatoday.com. October 12, 2015.

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• As individuals, it's a responsibility to be cautious about the things we DO put out there. And taking the time to be mindful of what we're sharing. And always coming from a place of integrity. But also sharing positive things. Whether it be online, or just to someone walking down the street - just passing on positive energy.

  Lexi Ainsworth

  Integrity, Responsibility, Passing On

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• [Relationships] never seem to work out, I mean it gets to the point where I have to be extremely cautious. You have to understand, this stardom thing is still new to me, I don't even consider myself "famous". It's 2008: if you have a blog, a mixtape and two pairs of skinny jeans you, too, can be 'famous'.

  Danny Denzongpa

  Mean, Jeans, Two

  Rolling Stone interview, February 13, 2008.

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• I'm pretty cautious and not very athletic, so I've only had really dumb injuries, like sprained ankles and allergic reactions. I did have to go to the hospital after slicing my finger while trying to cut a Kaiser roll in half.

  Mara Wilson

  Cutting, Athletic, Dumb

  "Mara Wilson: Hollywood child star turned New York storyteller". Interview with Katie Rogers, www.theguardian.com. September 18, 2013.

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• The finest virtues can become deformed with age. The precise mind becomes finicky; the thrifty man, miserly; the cautious man, timorous; the man of imagination, fanciful. Even perseverance ends up in a sort of stupidity. Just as, on the other hand, being too willing to understand too many opinions, too diverse ways of seeing, constancy is lost and the mind goes astray in a restless fickleness.

  Andre Gide

  Perseverance, Men, Hands

  Andre Gide (2017). “Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality”, p.289, Routledge

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