Make definite assertions. Avoid tame, colorless, hesitating, non-committal language. Votes: 3
William Strunk, Jr.Avoid context and specifics; generalize and keep repeating the generalization. Votes: 3
Jack SchwartzAvoid food products containing ingredients that a third-grader cannot pronounce. Votes: 3
Michael PollanAvoid retirement playgrounds like poison, because that's exactly what they are. Votes: 3
Linda GoodmanAvoid methodology. If what you're doing is about technique, that's not art. Votes: 3
Kay WalkingStickAvoid cynical and negative people like the plague. They are killers of potential. Votes: 3
Rick PitinoNO PROCESSED FOODS! Natural is best. Straight from the garden. Avoid the tins. Votes: 3
Natalie CookAvoid the precepts of those thinkers whose reasoning is not confirmed by experience. Votes: 3
Leonardo da VinciAvoid all doubtful ideas and put your mind into the realms of true belief. Votes: 3
Israelmore AyivorAvoid working directly under somebody you don't admire and don't want to be like. Votes: 3
Charlie MungerAvoid the eye that discovers with rapidity the bad, and is slow to see the good. Votes: 3
Johann Kaspar LavaterAvoid the temptation to work so hard that there is no time left for serious thinking. Votes: 3
Francis CrickAvoid the trap of looking back unless it is to glorify God for what He has done. Votes: 3
T. B. JoshuaAvoid teams at all cost. Keep your circle small. Never join a group that has a name. Votes: 3
George CarlinAvoid the world, it's just a lot of dust and drag and means nothing in the end. Votes: 3
Jack KerouacFools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it. Votes: 1
Alan PerlisAvoid using cigarettes, alcohol, and drugs as alternatives to being an interesting person. Votes: 1
Marilyn vos SavantTo avoid a blackout, electricity generating companies must lower generation in line with low demand. Votes: 1
Jyotiraditya Madhavrao ScindiaWe should only affect compassion, and carefully avoid having any. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldOrdinary [people] avoid troubles. Extraordinary [people] turn them into advantage. Votes: 0
Enoch L. JohnsonI avoid literature whenever possible, because whenever possible I avoid myself... Votes: 0
Thomas BernhardIn prosperity let us most carefully avoid pride, disdain, and arrogance. Votes: 0
Marcus Tullius CiceroDon't necessarily avoid sharp edges. Occasionally they are necessary to leadership. Votes: 0
Donald RumsfeldThe real reason Milton went blind was to avoid reading unsolicited manuscripts. Votes: 0
Rita Mae BrownIn order to avoid being called a flirt, she always yielded easily. Votes: 0
Charles Maurice de TalleyrandThe petitioner's problem is to avoid Scylla without being drawn into Charybdis. Votes: 0
Robert JacksonReality may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but ... hypotheses may not. Votes: 0
Jorge Luis BorgesThe petitioner's problem is to avoid Scylla without being drawn into Charybdis. Votes: 0
Robert H. JacksonSometimes you have to avoid mentioning things because people's feelings are tender. Votes: 0
Garrison KeillorA man must learn to endure patiently what he cannot avoid conveniently. Votes: 0
Michel de MontaigneOur society strives to avoid any possibility of offending anyone - except God. Votes: 0
Billy GrahamAgriculture is best, enterprise is acceptable, but avoid being on a fixed wage Votes: 0
Indian ProverbI don't believe in inspiration. I write when I can't avoid writing anymore. Votes: 0
Aleksandar HemonFor preserving peace of soul, it is also necessary to avoid judging others. Votes: 0
Nikolaj VelimirovicThe primary concern of the human animal is to avoid rejection and abandonment. Votes: 0
Laura SchlessingerIn handling resources, strive to avoid disaster rather than to attain an optimum. Votes: 0
Butler LampsonEvery job will demand some sacrifice. The key is to avoid unnecessary sacrifice. Votes: 0
Sheryl SandbergI never exploited my father's role in helping Jews avoid the concentration camps. Votes: 0
Zbigniew BrzezinskiIf they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots. Votes: 0
Napoleon BonaparteCommon sense, however it tries, cannot avoid being surprised from time to time. Votes: 0
Bertrand RussellTantra does not seek any type of experience, nor does it avoid it. Votes: 0
Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount CherwellAbove all, train hard, eat light, and avoid TV and people with negative attitudes. Votes: 0
Scott TinleyIn inventing a model we may assume what we wish, but should avoid impossibilities. Votes: 0
AristotleIf you could avoid all your mistakes, you'd miss everything you learned from them. Votes: 0
Marie Forleo... a warrior could not avoid pain and grief but only the indulging in them Votes: 0
Carlos CastanedaI've never understood the female capacity to avoid a direct answer to any question. Votes: 0
Leonard NimoyI value my reputation. I work hard to avoid even the appearance of impropriety. Votes: 0
Richard HannaWe should avoid planting and cultivating too many thorns in the bosom of society. Votes: 0
Abraham LincolnStrange how complicated we can make things just to avoid showing what we feel! Votes: 0
Erich Maria RemarqueI claim the holy right to disappoint men in order to avoid disappointing God. Votes: 0
Aiden Wilson TozerProgress requires setbacks; the only sure way to avoid failure is not to try. Votes: 0
Henry SpencerI value my reputation. I work hard to avoid even the appearance of impropriety. Votes: 0
Richard L. HannaWhat the hell-you might be right, you might be wrong...but don't just avoid. Votes: 0
Katharine HepburnAlways try in interviews to avoid the cliches about the problems of public life. Votes: 0
Jack NicholsonWe believe that to govern perfectly it is necessary to avoid governing too much. Votes: 0
James HiltonBeauty and Genius must be kept afar if one would avoid becoming their slave. Votes: 0
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheRespectable society believed in God in order to avoid having to speak about him. Votes: 0
Jean-Paul SartreYou always have to avoid working for the sake of putting yourself out there. Votes: 0
Haley Joel OsmentI try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward. Votes: 0
Charlotte BronteIt is difficult for men in high office to avoid the malady of self-delusion Votes: 0
Calvin CoolidgeEntrepreneurs are willing to work 80 hours a week to avoid working 40 hours a week. Votes: 0
Lori GreinerIf you avoid conflict to keep the peace, you start a war inside yourself. Votes: 0
Cheryl RichardsonAt Arsenal me and Patrick (Vieira) didn't want to face Scholes. We would avoid him. Votes: 0
Emmanuel PetitBeing a non-swimmer, I've never been excited by the sea so avoid it on holidays. Votes: 0
Donald SindenIf you really love one another, you will not be able to avoid making sacrifices. Votes: 0
Mother TeresaSober up, and you see and hear everything you'd been able to avoid hearing before. Votes: 0
Sammy Davis, Jr.You can't avoid pain in life. It's how you handle pain, that's what defines you. Votes: 0
Marc MaronI hate horror movies! I avoid them like the plague. I don't like getting scared. Votes: 0
Danai GuriraIn my portraits I try to avoid the fleeting expression and vivacity of a snapshot. Votes: 0
Bill BrandtWrite to exhaustion so that you can no longer manage to avoid writing the truth. Votes: 0
Elissa SchappellI want to avoid personal attacks, ... I promise not to make fun of your singing. Votes: 0
Dick CheneyIt is sometimes necessary to play the fool to avoid being deceived by cunning men. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldThose who ought to be secure from calumny are generally those who avoid it least. Votes: 0
StanisÅaw I LeszczyÅskiThe worst vulgarity is to avoid vulgarity solely on the grounds that it is vulgar. Votes: 0
Tanith LeeIf possible, avoid being a bubble; for a bubble, even the gentlest touch is fatal. Votes: 0
Mehmet Murat ildanWhy did the Lord give use so much quickness unless it was to avoid responsibility? Votes: 0
Ogden NashI avoid the public because the English public is too aggressive these days for me. Votes: 0
David HockneyTo have a high IQ, you tend to specialize, think deep thoughts. You avoid trivia. Votes: 0
Christopher LanganThe thing is not only to avoid error, but to attain immense masses of truth. Votes: 0
Thomas CarlyleI avoid banks and I've never been in any sort of corporate environment at all. Votes: 0
Jodie WhittakerThough you should not fear failure, you should do your very best to avoid it. Votes: 0
Conan O'BrienI am convinced that by eating biological foods it is possible to avoid a tumor. Votes: 0
Gwyneth PaltrowPlus, there were so many pianos in my house, so I couldn't really avoid it. Votes: 0
Vanessa CarltonIf you wish to avoid seeing a fool you must first break your looking glass. Votes: 0
Francois RabelaisI avoid people who I actually like. I suppose that's a phobia but also a habit. Votes: 0
Steven MorrisseyDon't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft. Votes: 0
Theodore RooseveltThe game is full of peaks and valleys, the key is to avoid the Grand Canyon. Votes: 0
Andy Van SlykeThis is the tendency of all living things: to avoid pain and to cling to pleasure. Votes: 0
Pema ChodronNight is torment. That is why people go to sleep. To avoid clear sight and torment. Votes: 0
Dorothy RichardsonI use a lot of sense memory and, well, I can't really avoid getting into character. Votes: 0
Alexandra DaddarioI have to be careful what I eat before going onstage, to avoid an upset stomach. Votes: 0
Samantha BondIt is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it. Votes: 0
Francis BeaumontWe may avoid the laws of man, but there are greater laws that can't be broken. Votes: 0
Earl NightingaleThe end and object of conquest is to avoid doing the same thing as the conquered. Votes: 0
Alexander the GreatThe more money that you have, the easier it becomes to hide that and avoid taxes. Votes: 0
Jeffrey HollenderPain is pain, joy is joy - you can't avoid bringing pieces of yourself into a role. Votes: 0
Joshua LeonardThere is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking. Votes: 0
Joshua ReynoldsOne does not miss heaven by a hair, but by constant effort to avoid and escape God. Votes: 0
Dallas WillardMy hope is that learning about past evils will help us to avoid them in the future. Votes: 0
Livia Bitton-JacksonI think you should aim for the stars - and hopefully avoid ending up in the clouds! Votes: 0
Roxanne McKeeThough we may not always be able to avoid pain, we can choose how much we suffer. Votes: 0
Judy TatelbaumAin't no man can avoid being born average, but there ain't no man got to be common. Votes: 0
Satchel PaigeI don't set out to offend or shock, but I also don't do anything to avoid it. Votes: 0
Sarah SilvermanIf someone stinks, view it as a reason to help them, not a reason to avoid them. Votes: 0
Larry WallAin't no man can avoid being born average, but there ain't no man got to be common Votes: 0
Satchel PaigeThe past will not tell us what we ought to do, but... what we ought to avoid. Votes: 0
Jose Ortega y GassetI avoid roles that might send me down a road where I might end up being typecast. Votes: 0
Denzel WhitakerOne sure way I can avoid facing myself is by refusing to look into the face of God. Votes: 0
Craig D. LounsbroughI love the smell of Burger King when I ride past, but sometimes I have to avoid it. Votes: 0
LaMarr WoodleyOh God, I'm awful at sports. In gym I just try and avoid getting hit in the face. Votes: 0
Tavi GevinsonSome days I think I look kind of cute, but other days I try to avoid the mirror. Votes: 0
David Alan GrierI can do only one thing at a time, but I can avoid doing many things simultaneously.
Ashleigh BrilliantLeaders do not avoid, repress, or deny conflict, but rather see it as an opportunity
Warren G. BennisBeware of any work for God that causes or allows you to avoid concentrating on Him...
Oswald ChambersEverything that thou reprovest in another, thou must most carefully avoid in thyself.
Marcus Tullius CiceroChristmas: the one time of year when you canât avoid the nuts in your family muesli.
Charles StrossIn order to maintain a friendship, do not avoid confrontation, but rather, embrace it.
Christopher JonesBe sensitive to the qualities inherent in the medium. Paint honestly and avoid tricks.
John French SloanMy goal was to avoid bloodshed. But unfortunately there was some bloodshed, after all.
Mikhail GorbachevI don't have famous neighbours and if I did, I'd avoid them. I don't live the jet-set.
Vanessa ParadisNow I'm a pretty lazy person and am prepared to work quite hard in order to avoid work.
Martin FowlerPoor people either mismanage their money or they avoid the subject of money altogether.
T. Harv EkerIt behooves us to avoid archaisms. Never use a long word when a diminutive one will do.
William SafireAvoid Extremes; and shun the fault of such Who still are pleas'd too little or too much.
Alexander PopeA bachelor gets tangled up with a lot of women in order to avoid getting tied up to one.
Helen RowlandIf you value your safety, avoid holy places founded in the name of peace and brotherhood.
Ashleigh BrilliantOnly a marriage with partners strong enough to risk divorce is strong enough to avoid it.
Carolyn HeilbrunTo avoid discovery I stay on the run. To discover things for myself, I stay on the run...
Jeanette WintersonTo avoid tripping on the chain of the past, you have to pick it up and wind it about you.
Mason CooleyUsually I avoid sugar, but sugar is like the most deeply satisfying addictive thing ever.
Rachel ZuckerWhile prudence will endeavor to avoid this issue of war, bravery will prepare to meet it.
Thomas JeffersonI sometimes think novelists write about sex in order to avoid boring themselves to death.
Walker PercyMostly, I avoid worrying since the time spent doing it could be spent more constructively.
Adora SvitakAvoid being seized by the police. The cops are not your friends. Don't tell them anything.
Hunter S. ThompsonDomestic discord is not inevitably and fatally necessary; but yet it is not easy to avoid.
Samuel JohnsonWhenever you avoid alarming situations, you almost always increase your anxiety about them.
Albert EllisSometimes the only thing we do to avoid success is refuse to be energetic on our own behalf
Barbara Sherit is easy to surpass a predecessor, but difficult to avoid being surpassed by a successor.
Eiji YoshikawaThere is no more dangerous illusion than the fancies by which people try to avoid illusion.
Francois FenelonI was drawn to his aloofness, the way cats gravitate toward people who'd rather avoid them.
Rachel HartmanWhen you see your own desire to be happy, you can't avoid seeing the same desire in others.
Yongey Mingyur RinpocheIn real life I avoid all parties altogether, but on paper I can mingle with the best of them
Anne TylerMuch of television has been homogenized in the desire to avoid annoying or upsetting people.
Craig FergusonIt is foolish to fear that which you cannot avoid. -Stultum est timere quod vitare non potes
Publilius SyrusNeither I nor any other man should, on trial or in way, contrive to avoid death at any cost.
SocratesDON'T THINK OF IT AS DYING, said Death. JUST THINK OF IT AS LEAVING EARLY TO AVOID THE RUSH.
Terry PratchettYou guard your hopes and pocket your dreams, you'd trade it all to avoid an unpleasant scene.
Billy SquierIf I can avoid doing stunts, I will. I don't want to die just for a movie. It's not worth it.
Eva GreenI would urge my fellow conservatives to avoid the temptation to crow about it or take credit.
Gary BauerHow are you gonna make an 'idol' from the type of person you're trying to avoid in real life?
Natasha LeggeroAvoid failing, not only against purity, but even against the least rules of an exact modesty.
Paul of the CrossAll good men and women should be on their guard to avoid guilt, and even the suspicion of it.
PlautusHer only fault is that she lacks sense enough to avoid falling in love with such a fool as I!
Seth Grahame-SmithI have found the best way to avoid ending your life as a bitter wreck is to start out as one.
Steven MorrisseyIn short, Roberto privately concluded, if you would avoid wars, never make treaties of peace.
Umberto EcoIf the poet would avoid pepsis in his patients, his scalpel must be as clean as the surgeon's.
Austin O'MalleyYou want to learn about what's already in their heads. You want to avoid putting things there.
Emmett ShearThe trick is simply to avoid jerks. There are lots of them out there. Most people are unhappy.
Frederick LenzIt is most necessary to avoid rusticity in any way, whether in material, design, or execution.
George Edmund StreetI try to avoid doing movies where I act with tennis balls. It's ultimately incredibly tedious.
Jeremy IronsA little foolishness, enough 2 enjoy life, & a little wisdom to avoid the errors, that will do
RajneeshAvoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece.
Ralph CharellInstead of expending time to train yourself not to be afraid of snakes, avoid them altogether.
Richard KochOne of the fundamental choices you face in every encounter is the choice to approach or avoid.
Steve PavlinaI can't avoid writing. It's a sort of nervous tic I have developed since I gave up needlepoint.
Clare Boothe LuceIf you do everything in your power to avoid writing and still can't, then you must be a writer.
Fannie FlaggThe man who can own up to his error is greater than he who merely knows how to avoid making it.
Jean Francois Paul de GondiEvery fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.
John KeatsTry to avoid complaints. Self-pity even when legitimate never fails to undermine your strength.
Mariane PearlThere is still time to avoid the worst impacts of climate change, if we take strong action now.
Nicholas SternCanada will also look into their policies to avoid a repeat. They will go after their exporter.
Ramon PajeAvoid employing unlucky people - throw half of the pile of CVs in the bin without reading them.
Ricky GervaisOne of my favorite little sayings is, 'To avoid criticism, say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.
Robert M. GatesWe must contemplate some extremely unpleasant possibilities, just because we want to avoid them.
Albert WohlstetterNothing is easier to avoid than publicity. If one genuinely doesn't want it, one doesn't get it.
C.P. SnowI always managed to fly a bit below the radar, but high enough to avoid colliding into anything.
DJ ShadowCensors are necessary, increasingly necessary, if America is to avoid having a vital literature.
Don MarquisConversely, I came to realize that being good at something is hardly a reason to avoid doing it.
Eric Allin CornellWhat matters is not how well you can avoid trouble, but how you cope with trouble when it comes.
Paul AusterThe best way to resist temptation is to avoid it. Prevention is far, far better than repentance.
Spencer W. KimballWe should no longer seek to have Budget surplus by end of Parliament. We should avoid tax rises.
Theresa MayBe not anxious to avoid poverty. In this way the wealth of the universe may be securely invested.
Henry David ThoreauSometimes you best avoid talking by being quiet, but sometimes you best avoid talking by talking.
Karen Joy FowlerThat's how it goes, my friend. The problem is not falling a captive, it's how to avoid surrender.
Naz?m HikmetAs a designer, I like to work with fabrics that don't bleed; that's why I avoid all animal skins.
Stella McCartneyInjuries are part of the game, but sometimes we can avoid them by just practicing our techniques.
Troy VincentThe only way to avoid disruption is to constantly do what you would if you were just starting out.
Aaron LevieNothing is more difficult, in my opinion, than to avoid something that fundamentally attracts you.
Catherine the GreatThe commandment to avoid contention applies to those who are right as well as those who are wrong.
Dallin H. OaksI wanted to avoid service, because I was on the road to becoming a professional basketball player.
Dirk NowitzkiToo often faith is used as an epistemological device to avoid the hard labor of straight thinking.
Edward John CarnellI hate writing. I will do anything to avoid it. The only way I could write less was if I was dead.
Fran LebowitzThe friends of gold will have to be extremely wise and moderate if they are to avoid a revolution.
John Maynard KeynesWhat philosophy worthy of the name has truly been able to avoid the link between poem and theorem?
Michel SerresThe problem in this world is to avoid concentration of power - we must have a dispersion of power.
Milton FriedmanThe world hid its head in the sands of convention, so that by seeing nothing it might avoid Truth.
Radclyffe HallI will do anything, including highway robbery and murder, to avoid leaving my children in poverty.
Robert Anton WilsonSince hate poisons the soul, don't cherish enmities or grudges: avoid people who make you unhappy.
Robert Louis StevensonGrant me prudently to avoid him that flatters me, and to endure patiently him that contradicts me.
Thomas a KempisIt's a mistake to try to avoid the unpleasant things in life... But I'm beginning to consider it...
Charles M. SchulzWe've all got an identity. You can't avoid it. It's what's left when you take everything else away.
Diane ArbusThe only way to avoid making mistakes is not to do anything. And that will be the ultimate mistake.
Goh Keng SweeAvoid greatness in a cottage there may be more real happiness than kings or their favourites enjoy.
HoraceIf you cannot close the mouth of one who reviles his brother, at least avoid conversation with him.
Isaac of NinevehWhat is reason given me for, if I am not to use it to avoid bringing unhappy beings into the world!
Leo TolstoyTo avoid taking responsibility, I become unresponsive but hang on until the other person leaves me.
Mason CooleyOne way to avoid criticism is to do nothing and to be a nobody. The world will then not bother you.
Napoleon HillIf possible, try to avoid pushing each other over the edge, as that would cause me extra paperwork.
Rick RiordanI don't listen to recordings of my songs. I don't avoid it, I just don't go out of my way to do it.
Stephen SondheimMen and women in their mutual attraction are driven to the very emptiness they are trying to avoid.
Subhash KakLearn from the mistakes of others, and avoid being one whose mistakes are used as lessons by others.
Abu Ammaar Yasir QadhiWhat you subconsciously want, you will get. And what you subconsciously do not want, you will avoid.
Bo SanchezAvoid that romantic trap: saying more than you feel, forcing yourself to feel more than you've said!
Natalie Clifford BarneyUncertainty is intrinsic to the process of finding out what you don't know, not a weakness to avoid.
Neil GershenfeldIt is much safer for the prince to be feared than loved, but he ought to avoid making himself hated.
Niccolo MachiavelliYou must avoid the investigation trap. You can't postpone tough decisions by studying them to death.
Percy BarnevikI have always tried to avoid regrets. Could I have done differently some things in my career? Maybe.
Rafael NadalNever have one kid in the room with you, and avoid situations that would look suspect to a passerby.
Raheem JarboExperience has taught me that you feel better on a flight if you avoid chicken fat in plastic sauce.
Terry PratchettI have learned that if this is what I am going to do, and do it well, then I have to avoid drinking.
Usain BoltMan's main concern is not to gain pleasure or to avoid pain but rather to see a meaning in his life.
Viktor E. Frankl