#cautious

No one except your husband knows of the cautiousness at the heart of your life. Your adulthood has been a progressive retreat from curiosity and wonder, an endless series of delays and procrastinations. You wanted to be so much, once, but life kept on getting in the way... You settled. Shunned creativity, flight, risk, never had the courage to give a dream, any dream, a go. ↗

— Nikki Gemmell

#dreams #fear-of-failure #courage

A White Tiger keeps no friends. It's too dangerous. ↗

— Aravind Adiga

#distrust #friend #friendship #friendship

I think every band is a little cautious when the drummer starts to write tunes. ↗

— Matt Cameron

#cautious #drummer #every #i #i think

There are successful scholars, public-spirited scholars, upright scholars, cautious scholars, and those who are merely petty men. ↗

— Xun Zi

#men #merely #petty #public-spirited #scholars

I've been a minister and I know how cautious you have to be. ↗

— Thomas Watson, Jr.

#cautious #how #i #know #minister

First of all, in terms of investment in Internet-related developments, venture capitalists - once burned - are now very cautious and are investing in areas that actually make business sense. ↗

— Vinton Cerf

#areas #burned #business #business sense #capitalists

I'm always cautious about overstepping any boundaries. At the end of the day, it's a director's medium, and if they don't want to hear from me I just step back. ↗

— Matt Damon

#always #any #back #boundaries #cautious

Ray is very secretive about his ideas - why not, the times that the Kinks have been ripped off, especially in the early years, it makes you a little bit cautious about telling anybody what you're doing. And that's understandable. ↗

— Dave Davies

#anybody #been #bit #cautious #doing

We are optimistic, but we are optimistic in a cautious fashion. ↗

— Tom Lantos

#fashion #optimistic

I thought, I need to be more cautious about my choices - it reflects on who I am. ↗

— Heath Ledger

#am #cautious #choices #i #i am