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Oh, but I think that thoughtfulness and manners are everything.
There's been a thoughtfulness to everything I do. Even the stupidest things I do have some kind of point.
If there were one word that could act as a standard of conduct for one's entire life, perhaps it would be '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."
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.
But anyone with the time and the inclination can acquire technical proficiency. To achieve greatness, though, that requires artistry. That requires imagination and thoughtfulness.
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.