Avoidance Quotes

All work is the avoidance of harder work.

The best way of being kind to bears is not to be very close to them.

You get hit the hardest when trying to run or hide from a problem. Like the defense on a football field, putting all focus on evading only one defender is asking to be blindsided.

For many decades my relations with my parents constituted unfinished business. I had dealt with them through sheer avoidance and guilt.

The leading characteristic of the savage state is its refusal or avoidance of industry.

To discover a system for the avoidance of war is a vital need of our civilisation.

When our purpose becomes avoidance, our life becomes a void.

Natural light consistently fosters innovation, as does the avoidance of disturbances from noise and extreme temperatures.

Nothing is more vulgar than a careful avoidance of beginning a letter with the first person singular.

You can gain power by avoidance. You can gain power by doing certain things. You can gain much more power by meditating.

The avoidance of that which causes you pain does not produce enlightenment. It produces avoidance. Religion is the avoidance of pain and suffering.

The final battles are the samskaras of good karma. They prevent Samadhi. Naturally for a religious person the avoidance is intensive. They are so hung up on good karma and on method.

Tantra has to do with the reconciliation of opposites. All the yogas recommend that you avoid certain experiences. In tantra there is no avoidance.

Avoidance of experiences is a fixation and it binds you to the world, it binds you to the personal self.

Compulsion precedes morality, indeed morality itself is compulsion for a time, to which one submits for the avoidance of pain.

The two-fold goal of all human striving is the avoidance of pain, and the fulfillment of happiness.

Avoidance is a great tool to get away from food in my face all day long.

Andrea Leadsom also denies any tax avoidance, says she 'shopped around' for a good deal and it was from a British bank that booked the biz in Jersey.

Avoidance is a wonderful therapy

That's reality, it's accessibility. People are used to seeing me like that for the last year, I think, ... To avoid it is avoidance. We're not going to avoid things.

Be truthful... and pay attention. I would also recommend the avoidance of credit cards.

Computer users soon learn that the miraculous powers of personal computers are based on avoidance of error.

The key to productivity is to rotate your avoidance techniques.

The obvious danger is that in some situations [denial] can lead to procrastination in seeking help or to avoidance of action that might prevent harm.

Avoidance doesn’t solve anything; it merely serves as a temporary salve.

The primary dues a writer or any artist pays is to remain sentient, and to forfeit the illusionary luxury of such anesthetics as avoidance, numbness, and denials.

Avoid those who seek friends in order to maintain a certain social status or to open doors they would not otherwise be able to approach.

My sister having so much to do, was going to church vicariously, that is to say, Joe and I were going.

Bravery is the choice to show up and listen to another person, be it a loved one or perceived foe, even when it is uncomfortable, painful, or the last thing you want to do.

Ignorance is avoiding that which stands in front of me out of the misplaced hope that it will put what I’m ignoring behind me. Instead, it’s most certain to drop it on top of me.

Have we ever thought that being lost is our destination?

The choice to avoid risk is the choice to avoid living, and to avoid living is one of the greatest risk of all.

Mediocrity is a path cleared by fear, leveled by apathy and paved by comfort.

Comfort is a stance of avoidance rather than the pursuit of excellence.

I often ask to what place I am running, for if I am unable to identify that place it is likely that I am running in a circle of the most circular sort.

Is the goal I’ve set been determined by a desire to avoid the goal I should have set?

Fight for change? Thirst for difference?Start talking what men avoid talking about.

There’s not much that I can find in places where there is nothing to find. However, to avoid facing God I find myself spending a lot of time in those very places.

The worst thing that I can do is humanize God. The second worst thing that I can do is deify myself. And the best thing that I can do is to avoid both.

It’s not that I can’t remember. It’s that I prefer not to remember, which means that I prefer not to remember what not remembering did to me the last time I did it.

People will seek the ends of the galaxy to avoid that which they need most.

Emotional pain cannot kill you, but running from it can. Allow. Embrace. Let yourself feel. Let yourself heal.

When has been disappointed for so long, hope becomes the enemy. One cannot be dashed to the earth unless one is lifted first, and I learned to avoid hope.

I knew that suffering can purify, that it's a kind of fire that can be worth enduring, but there were degrees of it to which I chose not to subject myself.

To live a fantasy is to avoid a life.

There are some things in life that we try to ignore, thinking that maybe if we don't see the problem, it won't see us when in reality, it's only getting bigger.

I am often guilty of expecting the worst so as to avoid disappointment and welcome surprise.

The most common emotional defense is avoidance (an ineffective coping skill for any stressor) as expressed through denial (e.g., "That wasn't really bad, I barely remember it").

Business crises energize me. Personal crises devastate me. The doctors call it an avoidance tendency. (Mirena to Eve)

To live a lie may allow us to avoid the truth, but the real lie lays in believing that we can avoid the truth in the first place.