Quotes about Avoiding

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. Votes: 6

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure. Votes: 5

Avoiding problems you need to face is avoiding the life you need to live. Votes: 5

Avoiding the temptation to sin and being patient upon that, is greater than being patient whilst being afflicted with trials. Votes: 5

I'm disappearing, avoiding most things. Votes: 4

You cannot find peace by avoiding life. Votes: 4

Do not worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older it will avoid you. Votes: 4

There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others. Votes: 4

Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory. Votes: 4

Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him. Votes: 4

If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding worry, stress and tension. And if you didn't ask me, I'd still have to say it. Votes: 4

Avoiding complexity reduces bugs. Votes: 3

Avoiding pregnancy is not an absolute evil. Votes: 3

You can't find peace by avoiding life. Votes: 3

You cannot find peace by avoiding life, Leonard. Votes: 3

Avoiding depression with large daily doses of television. Votes: 3

Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death. Votes: 3

Avoiding humiliation is the core of tragedy and comedy. Votes: 3

The art of life is the art of avoiding pain. Votes: 3

Neurosis is the way of avoiding non-being by avoiding being. Votes: 3

Avoiding offense means that we don't accept each other as equals. Votes: 3

Avoiding things that drain you is more important than gaining energy. Votes: 3

Avoiding things that you deem unattainable on first sight will limit you. Votes: 3

You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality. Votes: 3

Avoiding the doctrine of Hell is one step away from denying it altogether. Votes: 3

When you blame and criticize others, you are avoiding some truth about yourself. Votes: 3

Avoiding combat duty was and is an unforgivable sin for a professional soldier. Votes: 3

There's nothing simpler than avoiding people you don't like. Avoiding one's friends, that's the real test. Votes: 3

Being a Christan is less about cautiously avoiding sin than about courageously and actively doing God's will. Votes: 3

Always Wear Flats and Have Your Friends Sleep Over: A Step-by-Step How-To Guide for Avoiding Getting Murdered Votes: 3

There is little anyone can do with fanatics. Reasoning with them is a fool's errand. Avoiding them is mandatory. Votes: 3

Avoiding where others go wrong is an important step in achieving investment success. In fact, it almost assures it. Votes: 3

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold. Votes: 3

The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes. Votes: 3

Avoiding a bathtub because your parents tried to kill you in one isn't the same as avoiding your entire life by becoming a wolf. Votes: 3

Trying to always be the nice guy, to appear good, can be limiting. Avoiding confrontation has closed up a number of possibilities for me. Votes: 3

The human race like to do things you are good at and avoid things that they are bad at. Avoiding it is the natural instinct. Votes: 3

Avoiding life, avoiding making any concrete plans for your life-that's just one way you're pretending you can keep bad things from happening to you again. Votes: 3

Avoiding occasions of expense by cultivating peace, we should remember also that timely disbursements to prepare for danger frequently prevent much greater disbursements to repel it Votes: 3

Avoiding maturity is, for many men, not just a cute hobby, but a life's work - often handsomely rewarded in the infantile popular culture of the West. Votes: 3

I glanced at Derek. The boy wonder didn't melt into a pile of goo, although his gaze was glued to Rowena's chest. Avoiding eye contact. Good strategy. Votes: 3

Avoiding along some dimensions is easy. Create organization space and bring in some new talent so the innate cultural resistance is less material. Unfortunately, it's rarely that easy. Votes: 3

The art of life is the art of avoiding pain; and he is the best pilot, who steers clearest of the rocks and shoals with which it is beset. Votes: 3

Avoiding risk is not much of a goal...whether you crawl into a hole or walk a high wire, nobody gets out of here alive. We cannot grow without challenge. Votes: 3

Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about. Votes: 3

Because after you've crossed some lines, you just keep crossing them. And there's no escaping from constant escape. Distracting ourselves. Avoiding confrontation. Getting past the moment. Jacking off. Television. Denial. Votes: 3

Avoiding the appearance of queenly behavior is politically wise. But it does American culture no favors if a first lady tries so hard to be average that she winds up looking common, Votes: 3

Intelligent martial arts is not getting in battles and winning them. Intelligent martial arts is avoiding battles because battles use up energy, and you can get hurt no matter who you are. Votes: 3

But always think this: do not be afraid of failure. Do not be afraid of falling. In the art of walking, what is important is not avoiding the fall but not remaining fallen. Votes: 3

Allow yourself to think that the possibility of failure is a necessary part of parenting well.Avoiding the possibility of failure means avoiding the possibility of being an extraordinary parent-and avoiding what you want for your child. Votes: 3

Avoiding likewise the accumulation of debt, not only by shunning occasions of expense, but by vigorous exertions in time of peace to discharge the debts which unavoidable wars have occasioned, not ungenerously throwing upon posterity the burthen whic Votes: 3

Avoiding me, Quen downed a swallow of wine. "Trent is a fine young man," he said, watching the remaining wine swirl. "Yes... " I drawled, cautiously. "If you can call a drug lord and outlawed-medicine manufacturer a fine young man. Votes: 3

If men as individuals surrender to the call of their elementary instincts, avoiding pain and seeking satisfaction only for their own selves, the result for them all taken together must be a state of insecurity, of fear, and of promiscuous misery. Votes: 3

Good health is about being able to fully enjoy the time we do have. It is about being as functional as possible throughout our entire lives and avoiding crippling, painful and lengthy battles with disease. There are many better ways to die, and to live. Votes: 3

Being kind to animals is not enough. Avoiding cruelty is not enough. Housing animals in more comfortable, larger cages is not enough. Whether we exploit animals to eat, to wear, to entertain us, or to learn, the truth of animal rights requires empty cages, not larger cages. Votes: 3

On a small scale, person-to-person, Jesus encountered the kinds of suffering common to all of us. And how did he respond? Avoiding philosophical theories and theological lessons, he reached out with healing and compassion. He forgave sin, healed the afflicted, cast out evil, and even overcame death. Votes: 3

Avoiding fear and pain can cause them to grow stronger. The trick with fear is to go with it, to let it do it's work. Once fear has put us in touch with our inner issue it can diminish. In fact, simply acknowledging fear seems to lessen it. Votes: 3

Simplicity is a key to avoiding complication. Part of the definition of simplicity is 'not complex or complicated; sincere.' Votes: 1

People now, especially with the Internet, are connected. They have an expectation of behaviour, of accountability, avoiding conflict and fair and just competition. Votes: 1

We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain. Votes: 1

Diplomacy is more than saying or doing the right things at the right time, it is avoiding saying or doing the wrong things at any time. Votes: 1

I learned to be with myself rather than avoiding myself with limiting habits; I started to be aware of my feelings more, rather than numb them. Votes: 1

Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about. Votes: 1

Every portfolio benefits from bonds; they provide a cushion when the stock market hits a rough patch. But avoiding stocks completely could mean your investment won't grow any faster than the rate of inflation. Votes: 1

We all have a dark side. Most of us go through life avoiding direct confrontation with that aspect of ourselves, which I call the shadow self. There's a reason why. It carries a great deal of energy. Votes: 1

My experience in Amsterdam is that cyclists ride where the hell they like and aim in a state of rage at all pedestrians while ringing their bell loudly, the concept of avoiding people being foreign to them. Votes: 1

If I don't talk about my religion, if I say I'm not discussing it or different humanitarian things I'm working on, they're like, 'He's avoiding it.' If I do talk about it, it becomes, 'Oh, he's proselytizing.' Votes: 1

For me, personally, when I'm afraid of something - when you're afraid of something, normally you try to go away, you try to avoid it. Instead of avoiding it, to overcome your fear, I believe you need to embrace it. Votes: 1

There's a certain logic to avoiding the haters, but as a strategy, it's utterly flawed. When you turn off the feedback, you lose the benefits as well as the drawbacks. It's like having a sore finger and cutting off your arm. Votes: 1

Social media requires that business leaders start thinking like small-town shop owners. This means taking the long view and avoiding short-term benchmarks to gauge progress. It means allowing the personality, heart and soul of the people who run all levels of the business to show. Votes: 1

The gospel of Jesus Christ encompasses much more than avoiding, overcoming, and being cleansed from sin and the bad influences in our lives; it also essentially entails doing good, being good, and becoming better. Repenting of our sins and seeking forgiveness are spiritually necessary, and we must always do so. Votes: 1

One day I looked at something in myself that I had been avoiding because it was too painful. Yet once I did, I had an unexpected surprise. Rather than self-hatred, I was flooded with compassion for myself because I realized the pain necessary to develop that coping mechanism to begin with. Votes: 1

The essence of procrastination lies in not doing what you think you should be doing, a mental contortion that surely accounts for the great psychic toll the habit takes on people. This is the perplexing thing about procrastination: although it seems to involve avoiding unpleasant tasks, indulging in it generally doesn't make people happy. Votes: 1

Aim for brevity while avoiding jargon. Votes: 0

There is superstition in avoiding superstition. Votes: 0

Engineering is achieving function while avoiding failure. Votes: 0

Sometimes the best offense was avoiding self-destruction. Votes: 0

People who fail, excel at avoiding opportunity. Votes: 0

Honestly, I am pretty passionate about avoiding failure! Votes: 0

Long-distance relationships are another way of avoiding intimacy. Votes: 0

Wisdom is avoiding all thoughts that weaken you. Votes: 0

Virtue consisted in avoiding scandal and venereal disease. Votes: 0

Instead of avoiding criticisms, make criticisms workfor you. Votes: 0

Virtue consists in avoiding scandal and venereal disease. Votes: 0

Talk of revolution is one of avoiding reality. Votes: 0

Genius is the capacity of avoiding hard work. Votes: 0

My favourite subject at school was avoiding unnecessary work. Votes: 0

Friendships like marriages are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable. Votes: 0

Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought. Votes: 0

The activity you're most avoiding contains your biggest opportunity Votes: 0

Successful investing is about managing risk, not avoiding it. Votes: 0

Guilt is only another way of avoiding informed action. Votes: 0

I don't think avoiding conflict is not caring.~Shin Votes: 0

I'm sounding out the silence, avoiding all the words. Votes: 0

He who avoids prayer is avoiding everything that is good. Votes: 0

Life is too short to spend your time avoiding failure, Votes: 0

To tell you the truth, I've just been avoiding everything. Votes: 0

Constructive change offers the best method for avoiding destructive change. Votes: 0

Healthy people have a natural skill of avoiding feverish eyes. Votes: 0

There is nothing wrong with avoiding people who hurt you. Votes: 0

In avoiding one vice fools rush into the opposite extreme. Votes: 0

Legalism is nothing but a leader's way of avoiding suffering. Votes: 0

The best way to achieve surprise quality is by avoiding cliches. Votes: 0

The good life is not about avoiding fear. Just the opposite. Votes: 0

Only by avoiding the beginning of things can we escape their end. Votes: 0

Great work is the result of seeking out tension, not avoiding it. Votes: 0

The cunning tempter, by avoiding the grossness of vice, often silences objections. Votes: 0

I love it when my justifications for avoiding housework are actually legitimate. Votes: 0

I love to invent - avoiding the truth. I need to dramatize. Votes: 0

The man who avoids debt doesn't have to worry about avoiding his creditors. Votes: 0

The wise expect nothing, hope for nothing, thus avoiding all disappointment and anxiety. Votes: 0

To many people virtue consists chiefly in repenting faults, not in avoiding them. Votes: 0

I have several times made a poor choice by avoiding a necessary confrontation. Votes: 0

Blaming our behavior on forces outside ourselves is a way of avoiding responsibility. Votes: 0

We don't have any miraculous way of avoiding taxes at Wesco and Berkshire. Votes: 0

When you are avoiding your pain you are really only avoiding your growth. Votes: 0

Fewer people are bent from hard work than are crooked from avoiding it. Votes: 0

In avoiding one evil we fall into another, if we use not discretion. Votes: 0

The young are adept at learning, but even more adept at avoiding it. Votes: 0

Nine times out of ten, talking is a way of avoiding doing things. Votes: 0

If you're living your life avoiding stress, you must be living on an ashram. Votes: 0

The secret of a successful relationship is avoiding the unforgivable and forgiving the unavoidable. Votes: 0

We are too focused on avoiding criticism and not enough on making a difference. Votes: 0

When we truly need to do is often what we most feel like avoiding. Votes: 0

A day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do. Votes: 0

I manage my time by prioritizing tasks, working smarter not harder, and by avoiding procrastination. Votes: 0

There was no avoiding the fact that we were going to hit our debt ceiling. Votes: 0

I'm not avoiding specifics, but I've always written songs from more of a global standpoint. Votes: 0

Is there any possibility of getting the super Welfare State's honey and avoiding the sting? Votes: 0

Entertaining is one method of avoiding people. It is very often the negation of hospitality. Votes: 0

I think by laying it out for the viewer I'm avoiding the issue of bias. Votes: 0

Often we find our own destiny on the same roads that we have been avoiding. Votes: 0

The negro has maintained his racial purity by his well known habit of avoiding baths Votes: 0

Pain in this life is not avoidable, but the pain we create avoiding pain is avoidable. Votes: 0

Outstanding long-term results are produced primarily by avoiding dumb decisions, rather than by making brilliant ones. Votes: 0

Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony. Votes: 0

We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it. Votes: 0

Emotional sickness is avoiding reality at any cost. Emotional health is facing reality at any cost. Votes: 0

My writing process, such as it is, consists of a lot of noodling, procrastinating, dawdling, and avoiding. Votes: 0

All taboos serve different human interests by avoiding those things which threaten to cause offence or distress Votes: 0

If there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy. Votes: 0

If there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy Votes: 0

I still don't think I have a vocation - and writing is a way of avoiding one. Votes: 0

I eat foods such as fish, chicken, fruit and vegetables while avoiding red meat, dairy and wheat. Votes: 0

Part of avoiding thoughts about something was not encouraging opportunities for that something to makes itself felt. Votes: 0

In cultivating human values, emphasis should also be placed on avoiding wastage of money, food and time. Votes: 0

A defensive referendum is for avoiding war and to help keep the Taiwanese people free of fear. Votes: 0

I've learned quite a lot, over the years, by avoiding what I was supposed to be learning. Votes: 0

I spent my whole life avoiding the public eye. At these food shows, I'm open quarry again. Votes: 0

Much sheer effort goes into avoiding the truth; left to itself, it sweeps in like the tide. Votes: 0

It is by avoiding future sin that we retain a remission of the sins of the past. Votes: 0

The best way to confront your fears it to stop avoiding the situation you're most afraid of. Votes: 0

Consider our difficulties avoiding junk food and overspending. Such addictions were carefully planned-for by professional marketing teams. Votes: 0

I love running. I'm not into marathons, but I am into avoiding problems at an accelerated rate. Votes: 0

You probably have started losing touch with humility when your friends start avoiding you without telling you why. Votes: 0

Laying siege to enemy-controlled cities allows attacking armies to keep their own casualties low by avoiding urban combat. Votes: 0

Virtue consists in avoiding vice, and is the highest wisdom. [Lat., Virtus est vitium fugere, et sapientia prima.] Votes: 0

It was only recently that Isabelle had realized other girls weren’t just for envying, avoiding, or disliking. Votes: 0

Promotion should not be more important than accomplishment, or avoiding instability more important than taking the right risk. Votes: 0

Life is a series of avoiding horrible situations until ultimately you're dead. That's how I feel about things. Votes: 0

Equanimity is the hallmark of spirituality. It is neither chasing nor avoiding but just being in the middle. Votes: 0

Instead of being afraid of the challenge and failure, be afraid of avoiding the challenge and doing nothing Votes: 0

I think...that I would rather recollect a life mis-spent on fragile things than spent avoiding moral debt. Votes: 0

Owning your own home is America's unique recipe for avoiding revolution and promoting pseudo-equality at the same time. Votes: 0

I think it is important for software to avoiding imposing a cognitive style on workers and their work. Votes: 0

What happens if I try to build a life dedicated to avoiding all danger and all unnecessary risk? Votes: 0

I'm not consciously avoiding doing a lot of period drama, but I don't really seek it out either. Votes: 0

Procrastinating, fighting and avoiding will only make it more difficult. The way out is to get it done. Votes: 0

Running away, avoiding life's battles or giving up robs you of the opportunity to grow and be stronger. Votes: 0

IT happened. There is no avoiding it, no forgetting. No running away, or flying, or burying, or hiding. Votes: 0

Some of us seem so anxious about avoiding hell that we forget to celebrate our journey toward heaven. Votes: 0

You can't buy peace by just wishing it and avoiding the challenges that other nations present to you. Votes: 0

There are two sides to increasing energy. One is avoiding loss. The other is learning how to gain energy. Votes: 0

One man restored our fortunes by delay. [By skilfully avoiding an engagement, Fabius exhausted the resources of the enemy.] Votes: 0

Love was like a steamroller. There was no avoiding it; it went over you and you came out flat. Votes: 0

They [Republicans] assume that military action always shows strength, while avoiding military action always shows weakness. That's just crazy. Votes: 0

It's as if we spend our entire lives avoiding Jell-O but it is always there at the end, waiting. Votes: 0

The difficulty, my friends, is not in avoiding death, but in avoiding unrighteousness; for that runs faster than death. Votes: 0

The essence of Capablanca's greatness is his rare talent for avoiding all that can complicate or confuse the conflict. Votes: 0

Your true self is beyond either relying on others or avoiding them in order to know who you are. Votes: 0

Whenever I'm with my mother, I feel as though I have to spend the whole time avoiding land mines. Votes: 0

Variety is more than a means of avoiding boredom, since art is more than an entertainment of the senses. Votes: 0

You don't become completely free by just avoiding being a slave; you also need to avoid becoming a master. Votes: 0

I've spent so much time avoiding arguments and smoothing relationships with the people around me, this confrontation is painful. Votes: 0

Sports just happen to be excellent for avoiding foreign-language stage fright and developing lasting friendships while still sounding like Tarzan. Votes: 0

It was troubling that one of the few people she trusted was a man she spent so much time avoiding Votes: 0

Sports just happen to be excellent for avoiding foreign-language stage fright and developing lasting friendships while still sounding like Tarzan. Votes: 0

I learned early and at that kitchen table that there are ways of avoiding, without guilt, the commitments of love. Votes: 0

At six I lived in a graveyard full of dolls, avoiding myself, my body, the suspect in its grotesque house. Votes: 0

Invention consists in avoiding the constructing of useless contraptions and in constructing the useful combinations which are in infinite minority. Votes: 0

Invention consists in avoiding the constructing of useless contraptions and in constructing the useful combinations which are in infinite minority." Votes: 0

Some have sought to avoid suffering by avoiding desire. Thus they have only small desires and small sufferings, poor fools. Votes: 0

There is such a thing as truth, but we have a vested interest in not seeing it, in avoiding it. Votes: 0

High taxes on guns and strong restrictions on their availability are the only realistic hope for avoiding many more Sandy Hooks. Votes: 0

Godzilla. The big, green G-man has had a profound influence on my creative endeavors and imagination since I was blueberry-avoiding kid. Votes: 0

Investing is not nearly as difficult as it looks. Successful investing involves doing a few things right and avoiding serious mistakes. Votes: 0

Caring for children is a dance between setting appropriate limits as caretakers and avoiding unnecessary power struggles that result in unhappiness. Votes: 0

They were simple, earnest people, those early Victorians, and had not yet learnt the trick of avoiding disturbing thoughts and sights. Votes: 0

I had been simply treating water, settling on surviving and avoiding pain rather than being actively involved in seeking out life. Votes: 0

My father and he had one of those English friendships which begins by avoiding the intimacies and eventually eliminates speech altogether. Votes: 0

Caring for children is a dance between setting appropriate limits as caretakers and avoiding unnecessary power struggles that result in unhappiness. Votes: 0

I hung about the dangerous frontier of "guess," avoiding with infinite trouble to myself and others the broad valley of reason. Votes: 0

You spend the first term at Oxford meeting interesting and exciting people and the rest of your time there avoiding them Votes: 0

It is important also to consider, that the surest means of avoiding war is to be prepared for it in peace. Votes: 0

There are a number of paths that lead to this place. I have been avoiding them for some small time, now. Votes: 0

Meditation practice is neither holding on nor avoiding; it is a settling back into the moment, opening to what is there. Votes: 0

I've always found that avoiding insanity is useful in life - which in American politics sometimes puts one in the minority. Votes: 0

In avoiding specific goals he had avoided specific limitations. For the time being the world, life itself, could be his chosen field. Votes: 0

A sense of the value of time... is an essential preliminary to efficient work; it is the only method of avoiding hurry. Votes: 0

Whenever you are immersed in compulsive thinking, you are avoiding what is. You don't want to be where you are. Here, Now. Votes: 0

Synergies are not only about cost reduction. Synergies can be access to markets, exchange of products, avoiding overlaps, exchange of best practices. Votes: 0

In avoiding the appearance of evil, I am not sure but I have sometimes unnecessarily deprived myself and others of innocent enjoyments. Votes: 0

Don`t imitate. If you want to know who you are, please avoid imitation, that`s a way of avoiding knowing yourself. Votes: 0

Smart people don't learn... because they have too much invested in proving what they know and avoiding being seen as not knowing. Votes: 0

An educated child is better equipped to handle all the challenges of life, from finding work to avoiding diseases like HIV/AIDS. Votes: 0

It's not life in the present moment that is intolerable; the pain we are avoiding has already happened. We are living in reverse. Votes: 0

The principle of nonviolent resistance seeks to reconcile the truths of two opposites-Acquiescence and violence -while avoiding the extremes and immoralities of both. Votes: 0

Put simply, Clean Eating is avoiding all processed food, relying on fresh fruits, vegetables and whole grains rather than prepackaged or fast food. Votes: 0

Americans still believe they are cut out to be successful-in everything: love, love-making, luck, luck-giving, money-making, sense-making, cancer-avoiding, clothes-wearing, car-driving, and so on. Votes: 0

Gratitude is the intention to count-your-blessings every day, every minute, while avoiding, whenever possible, the belief that you need or deserve different circumstances. Votes: 0

The extension and expansion of the payroll tax holidays for workers would be number one on my list and key to avoiding recession. Votes: 0

There is no life without work, anxieties or tensions. Peace is not found in avoiding these but in understanding them and controlling their force. Votes: 0

When we fill our souls up with creativity, artistry and intelligence ...we have a better chance at avoiding the behavior that leads to destruction. Votes: 0

But I have been avoiding talking about what I'm doing now because it's frustrating for people to hear about things that aren't available yet. Votes: 0

These days it's hard to meet women. Feel like my love life is finished. I been avoiding commitment. That's why I'm in this position. Votes: 0

For an infrequent action to become a habit, the user must perceive a high degree of utility, either from gaining pleasure or avoiding pain. Votes: 0

You pretty much have to be bad at it [stand-up] for several years to get good at it, so there's no avoiding embarrassing yourself. Votes: 0

Resisting and avoiding pain sucks energy-and time. The more you let yourself feel those minute-and-a-half hells, the quicker you'll start feeling those minute-and-a-half happinesses. Votes: 0

Our predicament is not the difficulty of attaining happiness, but the difficult of avoiding the misery to which the pursuit of happiness exposes us. Votes: 0

I've spent a long time avoiding painting and dealing with it from a distance. But as I get older, I'm more comfortable with it. Votes: 0

We have to learn to be kind to ourselves. In the long run avoiding unpleasantness is a very unkind thing to do to yourself. Votes: 0

Life is so horrible that one can only bear it by avoiding it. And that can be done by living in the world of art. Votes: 0

When I first went to America in 1928, there were spittoons everywhere. I remember avoiding spit as it flew past me in Times Square. Very unattractive. Votes: 0

Drama lives on conflict. If you're trying to deal with social issues seriously, there's no way of avoiding violence, which is so present in society. Votes: 0

So far, she’d been her usual lame self: solitary and routine-loving, carefully avoiding any path that might lead to spontaneous human interaction. Lena Kaligaris Votes: 0

If believing absurd falsehoods increase the odds of getting laid or avoiding predators, your brain will believe those falsehoods with all its metaphorical little heart. Votes: 0

Every person on earth learns it's lesson by making different mistakes. The only source of knowledge is experience. Experience avoiding the mistakes you already made. Votes: 0

Gloria was still talking, something about how shooting people was in a sense safer than making art, in terms of avoiding serious lapses in taste. Votes: 0

We achieve originality of style not by avoiding the influences of others but by blending them into a combination that has not been heard before. Votes: 0

Even when I took first prize, topped the class, won the race, I never really won anything. I was merely avoiding the embarrassment of losing. Votes: 0

The art of avoiding extremes is an art that is drawn on the canvas of maturity and painted with the abstract strokes of many experiences. Votes: 0

I tried to be really healthy and eat whole and organic as much as possible. I think that's the key to avoiding crazy weight gain. Votes: 0

One of the best ways of avoiding necessary and even urgent tasks is to seem to be busily employed on things that are already done. Votes: 0

I'm not interested in popular culture, particularly. I'm not against it, I'm not avoiding it, but I'm not interested in it as a force in life. Votes: 0

I'm getting better at avoiding this, but when something sets me off, I tend to punch first and then find out who I actually his later. Votes: 0

I've found a formula for avoiding these exaggerated fears of age; you take care of every day - let the calendar take care of the years. Votes: 0

I am not finding pregnancy much of a joy. I am afraid of childbirth, but I am afraid I can't find a way of avoiding it. Votes: 0

There is no avoiding the fact that we live at the mercy of our ideas This is never more true than with our ideas about God. Votes: 0

Practice mediation and concentration exercises, and begin to think more about regaining your sensitivity by avoiding draining situations. Not because of fear but because of intelligence. Votes: 0

Being present means being completely aware of all that is. It means you’re not in denial, you’re not pretending, and you’re not avoiding. Votes: 0

If a man wants to read good books, he must make a point of avoiding bad ones; for life is short, and time and energy limited. Votes: 0

Practice love in your relationships. The key to this is avoiding expectation. It's expectation that makes most people miserable in love - the return on the investment. Votes: 0

It's always seemed to me that flirtation is a man's device for avoiding responsibility. He can say whatever he wants and knows he won't be taken seriously. Votes: 0

I'm avoiding having an assistant because then I would become the horrible boss. I can't justify having an assistant as a 25-year-old; I just can't do it! Votes: 0

Whether by a Mack truck or by heart failure or faulty lungs, death happens. But life isn't really just about avoiding death, is it? It's about living." Votes: 0

They think that intelligence is about noticing things are relevant (detecting patterns); in a complex world, intelligence consists in ignoring things that are irrelevant (avoiding false patterns) Votes: 0

He stepped down, avoiding any long look at her as one avoids long looks at the sun, but seeing her as one sees the sun, without looking. Votes: 0

Whether by a Mack truck or by heart failure or faulty lungs, death happens. But life isn't really just about avoiding death, is it? It's about living. Votes: 0

I'd chosen instead to just change my route, go miles out of the way, as if avoiding it would make it go away once and for all. Votes: 0

Everybody certainly has the right to defend themselves. That's not to say that they should defy common sense by avoiding or diffusing confrontation. And that's very, very important. Votes: 0

Most programming languages contain good parts and bad parts. I discovered that I could be better programmer by using only the good parts and avoiding the bad parts. Votes: 0

Well, can you tell her that?"He looked down at his feet. "I will. I will."Guy-speak for, "I plan to keep avoiding her until she gives up. Votes: 0

The greatest satisfaction comes not from chasing pleasure and avoiding pain, but from the radical acceptance of life as it is, without fighting and clinging to passing desires. Votes: 0

I was incredibly depressed and I found myself avoiding doing interviews where my [20-something daughters] could hear me - or leaving books on the coffee table they could see. Votes: 0

I don't see anyone avoiding the Stones because DJs make jokes about them being a part of the Geritol set. All it does is make the DJs look stupid. Votes: 0

True brevity of expression consists in a man only saying what is worth saying, while avoiding all diffuse explanations of things which every one can think out for himself. Votes: 0

The principle of avoiding the unnecessary expenditure of energy has enabled the species to survive in a world full of stimuli; but it prevents the survival of the aristocracy. Votes: 0

Let us carefully observe those good qualities wherein our enemies excel us; and endeavor to excel them, by avoiding what is faulty, and imitating what is excellent in them. Votes: 0

Maybe we spend most of our decades being someone else, avoiding ourselves, maybe a man is only himself, his true self, for a few days in his entire life. Votes: 0

Epicurus recommends bread and cheese as the staple, and his emphasis is more on avoiding pain than on seeking pleasure, insofar as pleasure-seeking tends to be followed by painful after-effects. Votes: 0

Experience as well as common sense indicated that the most reliable method of avoiding self-extinction was not to equip oneself with the means to accomplish it in the first place. Votes: 0

You will gain energy by meditating deeply, by speaking the truth, by learning to be still and by avoiding the crowd, most of the time, not all of the time. Votes: 0

We have to be alert to the way brands behave and misbehave. We have to reward the good ones with our loyalty and punish the bad ones by avoiding them. Votes: 0

Another advantage of avoiding sodas is that you will avoid the caffeine that is in many of them. Caffeine is a weak diuretic that causes calcium loss via the kidneys. Votes: 0

You will gain energy by meditating deeply, by speaking the truth, by learning to be still and by avoiding the crowd, most of the time, not all of the time. Votes: 0

What is called a high standard of living consists, in considerable measure, in arrangements for avoiding muscular energy, for increasing sensual pleasure and enhancing caloric intake above any conceivable nutritional requirement. Votes: 0

Money gives you permission to just walk away from everything that isn't pretty and perfect. You can't put up with anything less than lovely. You spend your life running, avoiding, escaping. Votes: 0

Doing mistakes is as much a part of life as avoiding them. You may not get a second chance to do the same mistake, so, go on, give it a shot. Votes: 0

Setbacks and losses are both inevitable and essential if you're going to improve and become a good, even great, competitor. The art is in avoiding catastrophic losses in the key battles. Votes: 0

Being busy is a form of laziness - lazy thinking and indiscriminate action. Being busy is most often used as a guise for avoiding the few critically important but uncomfortable actions. Votes: 0

maturity meant thinking about risk long before you pondered the reward, and that success and happiness in life were as much about avoiding mistakes as making your mark into the world. Votes: 0

I frown at him. How does he know all this information? And why, after two years of avoiding becoming a Dauntless leader at all costs, is he suddenly acting like one? Votes: 0

I avoid talking about the way I work. But in avoiding it I seem only to have encouraged people to focus their fantasies about me in an ever more fantastical way. Votes: 0

[The Drafters of the Constitution] were intent on avoiding more than 100 years of religious intolerance and persecution in American colonial history and an even longer heritage of church-state problems in Europe. Votes: 0

Postural exercises such as yoga, Pilates, Egoscues, Alexander technique and martial arts are about avoiding pain and injury as much as helping you feel good. Attractive men and women have good posture. Votes: 0

I tend to eat vegetables only when I'm with the kids and the rest of the time, I'm a bit slack. But, I am weight-conscious, so I concentrate on avoiding junk food. Votes: 0

Governments need to be authorized to provide 'open bank assistance.' The convolutions of Dodd-Frank aimed at 'avoiding' this tactic are ludicrous and will prove to be extremely costly to the system. Votes: 0

Loving this country requires more than singing its praises or avoiding uncomfortable truths. It requires the occasional disruption, the willingness to speak out for what's right, and shake up the status quo. Votes: 0

It takes courage to let go of the past and all the mechanisms you have put in place, in order to ease your pain, regret and fear through avoiding responsibility for it. Votes: 0

I want to be clear. No company is too big to be prosecuted. We have zero tolerance for corporate fraud, but we also recognize the importance of avoiding collateral consequences whenever possible. Votes: 0

Somehow, the company must stay true to the founding vision while avoiding the pitfalls of rapid growth - and perhaps survive the hiring of a previously successful executive who doesn't work out. Votes: 0

If the art of war were nothing but the art of avoiding risks, glory would become the prey of mediocre minds.... I have made all the calculations; fate will do the rest. Votes: 0

Anxiety is an even better teacher than reality, for one can temporarily evade reality by avoiding the distasteful situation; but anxiety is a source of education always present because one carries it within. Votes: 0

The ambition of instantaneous photography... was that of preserving the spontaneity of action and avoiding any indication that the presence of the picture taker had a modifying influence on what was going on. Votes: 0

Sex can be renounced -- but sexuality cannot. We can't avoid sexual issues by avoiding sex, or by dismissing its importance, or by showing disrespect to our own or other people's sexual feelings. Votes: 0

In romance, we feel the need to zoom in and expound on our partner's foibles in intimate detail; in friendship, we tend to do the opposite, avoiding confrontation through fear, lethargy or both. Votes: 0

I am intentionally avoiding the standard term which, by the way, did not exist in Euler's time. One of the ugliest outgrowths of the "new math" was the premature introduction of technical terms. Votes: 0

We find no sense in talking about something unless we specify how we measure it; a definition by the method of measuring a quantity is the one sure way of avoiding talking nonsense... Votes: 0

The underlying motivation that drives all addiction is our insistence on avoiding pain. However, the pain you are avoiding is based in the past, and has nothing to do with the present moment. Votes: 0

Rock 'n' roll is just entertainment, and the kids who like to identify their youthful high spirits with a solid beat are thus possibly avoiding other pursuits that could be harmful to them. Votes: 0

As you are entered with the class of Nat. philosophy, give to it the hours of lecture, but devote all your other time to Mathematics, avoiding company as the bane of all progress. Votes: 0

There are so many ways to lose, but so few ways to win. Perhaps the best way to achieve victory is to master all the rules for disaster, and then concentrate on avoiding them. Votes: 0

Intuition is neither the ability to engage prophecy nor a means of avoiding financial loss or painful relationships. It is actually the ability to use energy data to make decisions in the immediate moment. Votes: 0

When I was younger, many of my romantic escapades were just a means of simply avoiding being by myself. I was afraid of feeling lonely, afraid I wouldn't know what to say to myself. Votes: 0

They use the pretext of avoiding war, to make you swallow any kind of peace, said Paul. They use the pretext of a revolution to involve us in any kind of war, said Jardinet. Votes: 0

Never underestimate the human capacity for wishful thinking and willful blindness,' said Miles. Such as a whole society of people who became so wrapped up in avoiding death, they forgot to be alive? Votes: 0

This selfishness is not only part of me. It is the most living part.It is somehow transcending rather than by avoiding that selfishness that I can bring poise and balance into my life. Votes: 0

But all history has taught us the grim lesson that no nation has ever been successful in avoiding the terrors of war by refusing to defend its rights - by attempting to placate aggression. Votes: 0

If I simply refrain from making a judgment in cases where I do not perceive the truth with sufficient clarity and distinctness, then it is clear that I am behaving correctly and avoiding error. Votes: 0

Becoming a vegan is a sure way of completely avoiding participation in the abuse of farmed animals. Vegans are a living demonstration of the fact that we do not need to exploit animals for food. Votes: 0

We've got great flexibility and a certain discipline in terms of not doing some foolish thing just to be active - discipline in avoiding just doing any damn thing just because you can't stand inactivity. Votes: 0

I always recommend a sensible diet, including lots of carbohydrates and avoiding too much fat. Dancers don't need different fuel from other people - they just need more of it because they use more energy. Votes: 0

Just "¦ isn't giving up allowed sometimes? Isn't it okay to say, "˜This really hurts, so I'm going to stop trying'?" "It sets a dangerous precedent." "For avoiding pain?" "For avoiding life. Votes: 0

There is a case for telling the truth; there is a case for avoiding the scandal; but there is no possible defense for the man who tells the scandal, but does not tell the truth Votes: 0

It's about avoiding reality through various escape routes that become addictions and lead to Hell. My character is addicted to television, chocolate, coffee, to her dream of her son, which has no basis in reality. Votes: 0

I support anything that broadens the message of gender equality and tempers the stigma of the feminist label. We run into trouble, though, when we celebrate celebrity feminism while avoiding the actual work of feminism. Votes: 0

One should not seek happiness, just nurture the spirit of joy as the basis of summoning happiness. One should not try to escape misfortune, just get rid of viciousness as a means of avoiding misfortune. Votes: 0