{"quotes":[{"text":"Impulsivity is something akin to spontaneously jumping out of an airplane and not realizing that you forgot something until about five seconds before impact.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["airplane","choice","consequences","crash","discretion","fool","foolish","hit","impact","impulsive","parachute","plane","repercussions","skydiving","spontaneous","thoughtless","wisdom","wise"],"id":14952,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"Samad! My mouth is like the grave! Whatever is told to me dies with me.'Whatever was told to Zinat invariably lit up the telephone network, rebounded off aerials, radio waves, and satellites along the way, picked up finally by advanced alien civilizations as it bounced through the atmosphere of planets far removed from this one.","author":"Zadie Smith","tags":["discretion","keeping-secrets","secrets"],"id":34351,"author_id":"Zadie+Smith"},{"text":"Starting over begins when I develop a reawakened appreciation for what I already have, a renewed recognition of what I’ve recklessly forsaken, a rehabilitated understanding that I foolishly do both of those things, and a revitalized commitment to live the rest of my life never doing either of them again.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["appreciate","appreciation","awaken","begin","begin-again","beginning","care","caution","cherish","discernment","discretion","foolish","foolishness","forsake","forsaken","reawaken","recognition","restart","savor","squander","start","thankful","thankfulness","value","wisdom"],"id":74728,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"Miss Benson had the power; which some people have, of carrying her wishes through to fulfillment; her will was strong, her sense was excellent, and people yielded to her – they did not know why.","author":"Elizabeth Gaskell","tags":["attitude","confidence","convincing","discretion","personality","sensible","strength"],"id":79545,"author_id":"Elizabeth+Gaskell"},{"text":"Our best-laid plans are often our worst-made decisions.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["decide","decision","decisions","discernment","discretion","foolish","foolishness","leader","leadership","plan","plans","poor-planning","strategies","strategy","tactics","wisdom"],"id":81671,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"That we may not fall short of desire, but let us give way to the unspoken passion hidden in the closet of our discretion. (“Crépuscule du désir”).","author":"Erik Pevernagie","tags":["closet","crépuscule","desire","discretion","fall-short","give-way","hidden","may","passion","unspoken"],"id":109168,"author_id":"Erik+Pevernagie"},{"text":"A secret spoken finds wings.","author":"Robert Jordan","tags":["confidentiality","discretion","secrets","sharing-secrets"],"id":111039,"author_id":"Robert+Jordan"},{"text":"Why must you speak your thoughts? Silence, if fair words stick in your throat, would serve all our ends better.","author":"J.R.R. Tolkien","tags":["discretion","fair-words","indiscretion","silence","speech","thoughts"],"id":127915,"author_id":"J.R.R.+Tolkien"},{"text":"Wisdom teaches you when to use your discretion- with whom, what, and when to share your feelings and discernments...","author":"Assegid Habtewold","tags":["discernment","discretion","feelings","wisdom"],"id":135184,"author_id":"Assegid+Habtewold"},{"text":"Don't destroy yourself by allowing negative people add gibberish and debris to your character, reputation, and aspirations. Keep all dreams alive but discreet, so that those with unhealthy tongues won't have any other option than to infest themselves with their own diseases.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["backbiting","calumny","character","detractors","discreet","discretion","disease","diseases","enemies","false","gibberish","haters","health","infest","michael-bassey-johnson","negative-people","reputation","ruin","unhealthy"],"id":173050,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":26,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}