Rethought Quotes

You're going to have to ask Steve about that. After the last one, I think he thought no way, but after the passage of time, I think he rethought things and decided to try it. - Joe Ritchie

Wisdom, prudence, forethought, these are essential. But not second to these that noble courage which adventures the right, and leaves the consequences to God. - Robert Dale Owen

When despair for the world grows in me, and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be -- I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds. I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought or grief. I come into the presence of still water. And I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light. For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free. - Wendell Berry

There is no forethought or editing when I paint. These covered canvases are all over my studio. When I begin to see an eye, a nose, the composition begins. It's all through trial and error. Like cooking without a recipe. - Harriet Wiseman

The memory should be specially taxed in youth, since it is then that it is strongest and most tenacious. But in choosing the things that should be committed to memory the utmost care and forethought must be exercised; as lessons well learnt in youth are never forgotten. - Arthur Schopenhauer

The man who knows when not to act is wise. To my mind, bravery is forethought. - Euripides

The larger question is when humans began influencing the climate and nutrient system. We are in an unusually long interglacial period right now, and another interesting but unresolved question is whether humans, without forethought, have inadvertently kept Earth out of the next ice age by altering its energy budget. - James White

The implications for star birth and star death, both ends of the stellar spectrum, have to be rethought. - Martin Ward

The habit of saving is itself an education. It fosters every virtue, teaches self-denial, cultivates the sense of order, trains to forethought, and so broadens the mind. - Thornton T. Munger

The firm doesn't start work without a purchase order. Work gets done with a clear plan at the outset of the campaign. It has compelled both the state agencies and ad agency to do business with more forethought and with more attention to incremental costs along the way. - Curt Topper