Avoiding Quotes

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Virtue consists in avoiding scandal and venereal disease.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

In my early 30s, I started to realise I was avoiding something on a personal level, but also as a writer. I was in denial about who I was, and was trying to be someone who I was not.

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

Sometimes the best offense was avoiding self-destruction.

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

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.

It's my genius plan of avoiding any career momentum whatsoever. Definitely the pop-culture thing is something I've avoided in my act. It's just too transitory and ephemeral.

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

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.

Actually, when you get into your sixties and above, you want to think about exercise differently. It's not just about you know cardiovascular or lifting weights. It's also about avoiding accidents.

Long-distance relationships are another way of avoiding intimacy.

Honestly, I am pretty passionate about avoiding failure!

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

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

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

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

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

There is superstition in avoiding superstition.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

In avoiding one vice fools rush into the opposite extreme.

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

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

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

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.

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.