quotes about Thoughtfulness

last updated: November 28, 2023

John Dewey reminded us that the value of what students do 'resides in its connection with a stimulation of greater thoughtfulness, not in the greater strain it imposes.
-- Alfie Kohn

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If there were one word that could act as a standard of conduct for one's entire life, perhaps it would be 'thoughtfulness.
-- Confucius

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Oh, but I think that thoughtfulness and manners are everything.
-- Diana Vreeland

Source : Diana Vreeland (1997). “D.V.”

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We are here to change the world with small acts of thoughtfulness done daily rather than with one great breakthrough.
-- Harold S. Kushner

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An enemy will train us in watchfulness; for if he be wary to seize on every error and trip us, we shall be more heedful to expose nothing, and this will drive us to prudence and thoughtfulness.
-- James Vila Blake

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“Life deals you a lot lessons, some people learn from it, some people don't.”

Source : "Sunday Conversation: Brett Favre". Interview with Suzy Kolber, www.espn.com. November 24, 2004.
“The whole world is being 'deculturalized' into a uniform 'Coca-Cola society,' wanting and needing an American way of life.”
“I tried acting, liked it, and stuck with it. I saw it as the way I would keep that promise to myself of getting back at those who had made my school life a misery.”
“We all have that moment in life when something terrible happens for the first time. Something so unexpected, so awful, that it takes the magic out of the world. Life becomes harder, colder. And everything we do in our lives, from that day on, is our way of coping with that one moment. We stop living and we merely exist. We either choose to move on from that, or we let it consume us.”

Source : Robin Parrish (2007). “Relentless (Dominion Trilogy Book #1)”, p.199, Baker Books
“All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.”
“Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.”

Source : A. Bartlett Giamatti (1981). “The University and the Public Interest”, Atheneum Books
“"Knowledge will bring you the opportunity to make a difference"”
“I did a film when I was about 30; it's a coming of age story called 'Gas Food Lodging,' and I'm so proud of that little independent film. I play this young English geologist, and he's such a simple, loving kind of guy. Doesn't talk too much. He's just a quiet guy, and he gets the girl.”
“I think trying to be cool is the worst possible ambition - and I have never suffered from it.”
“Everybody calls everybody a spy, secretly, in Russia, and everybody is under surveillance. You never feel safe.”