Avoiding Quotes

Talk of revolution is one of avoiding reality.

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.

For the future, I would suggest avoiding subjects of too vast a scale. It would be useful to make out a list of fundamental questions on the matter to be dealt with, and discuss only those.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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.

I've never really understood that whole thing of writers avoiding other writers' novels while they're working on their own.

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.

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

Avoiding depression with large daily doses of television.

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

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

Don't confuse the evil of avoiding pregnancy by itself, with abortion.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

I love to invent - avoiding the truth. I need to dramatize.

The higher the rate, the more interest there is in avoiding the tax. Either you move or you shift your profits overseas, as American corporations have proven very good at doing.

There is nothing wrong with avoiding people who hurt you.

Constructive change offers the best method for avoiding destructive change.

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.

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

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?

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.

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

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

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.

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

Recognize and beware of the snare.

Success involves avoiding the lure of making excuses.

When you understand the value of time, the resource and the wealth of time, you will be running away from the crowd, you will be running away from distractions.

It is easier to convert your time into products when you move away from any distractions.

You must understand that your creativity comes alive when you spend time alone focusing on your projects without distractions.

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

You can't always rely on taking the pain. You need to learn to avoid it.

Don’t let the things of the world distract you. Focus on your purpose