Avoidance Quotes

Avoidance Quote of the day

The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall.

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.

The desire to break the silence with constant human noise is, I believe, precisely an avoidance of the sacred terror of that divine encounter.

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

The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.

Both dreams and neurotic dream-states have as their function the avoidance of displeasure, but the dream-states also serve to provide a positive pleasure gain.

Cats are dangerous companions for writers because cat watching is a near-perfect method of writing avoidance.

Acting is the art of speaking in a loud, clear voice and the avoidance of bumping into the furniture.

[E]mpathy - not squishy self-serving conflict avoidance - is the hand-maiden, not the enemy, of reason and intellectual inquiry.

But avoidance allows you to believe that you're making all kinds of strides when you're not.

People who blame things rarely change things. Blame is an unassailable change-avoidance strategy.

I'm always aware of writing around things I can't do, and I've come to think that that's actually what 'style' is - an avoidance of your deficiencies.

The avoidance of loss is the surest way to ensure a profitable outcome.

I often work by avoidance.

Avoidance of sin is lighter than the pain of remorse.

America does not need another political campaign based on denial and avoidance of some of our real problems. It needs a crusade to reform and renew our country, its institutions and political system.

Mental anguish always results from the avoidance of legitimate suffering.

The avoidance of money is just as psychotic as being attached to money.

To counter the avoidance of intellectual challenge and responsibility, we must reduce the domination of certainty in education.

We begin every act of choice and avoidance from pleasure, and it is to pleasure that we return using our experience of pleasure as the criterion of every good thing.

Loss avoidance must be the cornerstone of your investment philosophy.

Cocooning is about insulation and avoidance, peace and protection, coziness and control - a sort of hyper-nesting.

Often life is a frantic avoidance of the truth.

There is no avoidance in delay.

We have two strategies for coping; the way of avoidance or the way of attention.

I have a certain avoidance of reality that makes fantasy an ideal choice for me.

Virtue is not the absence of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate thing, like pain or a particular smell.

There is a devilishly direct relationship between the significance of an idea and how nervous we become at the prospect of having to think about it.

The recreation of Neanderthals would be mainly a question of societal risk avoidance.

Towards the avoidance of a piece of verbal confusion: What is intended to be actively destroyed must first of all have been firmly grasped; what crumbles away crumbles away, but cannot be destroyed.

Creative avoidance is the type of procrastination that affects home business entrepreneurs the most. It is unconsciously filling our day with trivial, unimportant work.

The summum bonum of this [Puritan] ethic is the earning of more and more money combined with the strict avoidance of all enjoyment.

As "unkindness has no remedy at law," let its avoidance be with you a point of honor.

Avoidance of mistakes is the beginning, as it is the end, of mastery in chess.

No precautions, and no precautionary principle, can avoid problems that we do not yet foresee. We need a stance of problem-fixing, not just problem-avoidance.

Blame is a change-avoidance strategy.

To the elitist hedonist, life is the avoidance of boredom and routine.

Any of us can achieve virtue, if by virtue we merely mean the avoidance of the vices that do not attract us.

Artists should be aware that petty stroking could be the source of arrested productivity. An artist's job includes the avoidance of premature closure by the begged or gratuitous approval of others.

(Waste = Loss): The first rule of business is to survive and the guiding principle of business economics is not the maximisation of profit, it is the avoidance of loss

Artistic anorexia & sexual avoidance have the same root fears – fear of intimacy, fear of exposure, fear of failure”.

At some point, life starts to pass you by and becomes about avoidance. I want to stay clear from that situation, because I don't like that.

Neurosis is the natural by-product of pain avoidance.

Perceived self-inefficacy predicts avoidance of academic activities whereas anxiety does not

I was left to painstakingly deal with the aftermath of my avoidance later in life, in therapy or through the lyrics of my songs.

In order to keep surfing (getting-a-job avoidance) we just automatically got into hashish smuggling. Didn't even occur to us that something bad might happen.

The obvious is better than obvious avoidance of it.

Avoidance of self deception is a matter of integrity not comfort.

Most human behavior is nothing other than the avoidance of pain and the pursuit of pleasure.

Tantra means the avoidance of a set or defined form of spirituality. Tantra is intuitive self-discovery.