Avoiding Quotes
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.
Our predicament is not the difficulty of attaining happiness, but the difficult of avoiding the misery to which the pursuit of happiness exposes us.
People now, especially with the Internet, are connected. They have an expectation of behaviour, of accountability, avoiding conflict and fair and just competition.
We have to learn to be kind to ourselves. In the long run avoiding unpleasantness is a very unkind thing to do to yourself.
In avoiding the appearance of evil, I am not sure but I have sometimes unnecessarily deprived myself and others of innocent enjoyments.
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.
You don't become completely free by just avoiding being a slave; you also need to avoid becoming a master.
All acts of living become bad by ten things, and by avoiding the ten things they become good. There are three evils of the body, four evils of the tongue, and three evils of the mind.
Some have sought to avoid suffering by avoiding desire. Thus they have only small desires and small sufferings, poor fools.
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.
Synergies are not only about cost reduction. Synergies can be access to markets, exchange of products, avoiding overlaps, exchange of best practices.
Don't help the young too much — it will just weaken them and they'll resent it, and finally start avoiding you.
Your true self is beyond either relying on others or avoiding them in order to know who you are.
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.
Meditation practice is neither holding on nor avoiding; it is a settling back into the moment, opening to what is there.
For an infrequent action to become a habit, the user must perceive a high degree of utility, either from gaining pleasure or avoiding pain.
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.
Of the sparkling wines, the most famous is Perth Pink. This is a bottle with a message in, and the message is "beware". This is not a wine for drinking; this is a wine for laying down and avoiding.
Whenever you are immersed in compulsive thinking, you are avoiding what is. You don't want to be where you are. Here, Now.
Godzilla. The big, green G-man has had a profound influence on my creative endeavors and imagination since I was blueberry-avoiding kid.
In avoiding specific goals he had avoided specific limitations. For the time being the world, life itself, could be his chosen field.
A defensive referendum is for avoiding war and to help keep the Taiwanese people free of fear.
At six I lived in a graveyard full of dolls, avoiding myself, my body, the suspect in its grotesque house.
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. Theres a reason why. It carries a great deal of energy.
Avoiding where others go wrong is an important step in achieving investment success. In fact, it almost assures it.
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.
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.
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.
A day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do.
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.
It's as if we spend our entire lives avoiding Jell-O but it is always there at the end, waiting.
Life is a series of avoiding horrible situations until ultimately you're dead. That's how I feel about things.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain.
