Only a fool tests the depth of the water with both feet
Acting without thinking is like shooting without aiming.
Please, don’t drive a school bus blindfolded.
I bashed myself. I cut myself. I caught on fire. I fell: I had been myopically focused on peeling garlic, and hadn't noticed a bin of beef at my feet until I walked into it.
About five years ago I saw a mockingbird make a straight vertical descent from the roof gutter of a four-story building. It was an act as careless and spontaneous as the curl of a stem or the kindling of a star.
Could you hold the chainsaw a bit closer to your mouth, please?
Someday we'll look back on this moment and plow into a parked car.
What happened casually remains -
