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Thoughtfulness Quotes

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

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

Confucius
Would Be, Thoughtfulness, Standards

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

Diana Vreeland
Thinking, Thoughtfulness, Manners
Diana Vreeland (1997). “D.V.”

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
Connections, Students, Thoughtfulness
Alfie Kohn (2007). “The Homework Myth: Why Our Kids Get Too Much of a Bad Thing”, p.72, Da Capo Press

There's been a thoughtfulness to everything I do. Even the stupidest things I do have some kind of point.

Jim Carrey
Kind, Thoughtfulness, Stupidest
"Jim Carrey On His 'World Stopping' New Book". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, www.etonline.com. September 24, 2013.

But anyone with the time and the inclination can acquire technical proficiency. To achieve greatness, though, that requires artistry. That requires imagination and thoughtfulness.

Christopher Paolini
Greatness, Imagination, Thoughtfulness
Christopher Paolini (2012). “Inheritance Deluxe Edition (The Inheritance Cycle, Book 4)”, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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
Errors, Enemy, Thoughtfulness

This is a moment in our history - that we can thank neoliberalism for - that has really destroyed what Hannah Arendt called "the virtue of thoughtfulness."

Henry Giroux
Moments, Virtue, Thoughtfulness

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