A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Avoid making promises in happiness, speaking in anger, and deciding in sadness.”
Source: The Light in the Heart
“Avoid making yourself the subject of conversation.”
“Avoid men who call you Baby, and women who have no friends, and dogs that scratch at their bellies and refuse to lie down at your feet. Wear dark glasses; bathe with lavender oil and cool fresh water. Seek shelter from the sun at noon.”
Source: Practical magic
“Avoid methodology. If what you're doing is about technique, that's not art.”
“Avoid miscommunication. The price you pay for it is horrendous.”
“Avoid negative people at all costs. They are the greatest destroyers of self-confidence and self-esteem.”
Source: The Gift of Self-Confidence
“Avoid negative people, for they are the greatest destroyers of self confidence and self-esteem. Surround yourself with people who bring out the best in you!”
“Avoid openly trying to reform people. Every man knows he is imperfect, but he doesn't want someone else trying to correct his faults. If you want to improve a person, help him embrace a higher working goal-a standard, an ideal-and he will do his own 'making over' far more effectively than you can do it for him.”
“Avoid organizing investment team into silos.”
“Avoid overthinking and instead concentrate on the critical steps you need to take to perform at your best.”
Source: Strong Minds: How to Unlock the Power of Elite Sports Psychology to Accomplish Anything
“Avoid overuse of 'quotation “marks.”'”
Source: Words of Wisdom
“Avoid People and Situations That Upset You. Those things, people, situations, and experiences you dont like--avoid them. Stay away. Walk away. Do something else. Some might call this cowardly. I call it smart. The world is brimming with things, people, and experiences. We will never experience all of them if we live to be 10,000. So why not associate with the ones that naturally please you?”
“Avoid people who cannot put themselves in your shoes to see things from your perspective; such people see things one way, and that is their way.”
Source: I WILL BE A BILLIONAIRE: The right mindset is the first step towards the journey.
“Avoid people who hurt from an impulse. I mean people who have this tendency to relish their capacity to hurt the good souls of this world, and who after hurting, wake up the next day without a trace of despondent brooding, and then move on with life never thinking that they should show some remorse or try to repent.”
Source: The Girl on the Trail
“Avoid people who say they know the answer. Keep the company of people who are trying to understand the question.”
“Avoid people who tell you that something you want to do is not possible.”
“Avoid people with gold teeth who want to play cards”
“Avoid perfectionism. It often leads to decision-paralysis and excessive procrastination.”
Source: 99 Quotes and Affirmations For Self-Love & Personal Development
“Avoid places that disturb your mind, and always remain where your virtues increase.”
“Avoid popularity if you would have peace.”
“Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit.”
Source: A Collection of the Works of William Penn: To which is Prefixed a Journal of His Life, with Many Original Letters and Papers Not Before Published
“Avoid pornography at all costs!”
“Avoid problems, and you'll never be the one who overcame them.”
“Avoid processed foods, junk foods, prepackaged foods, animal derived foods, fired foods. These foods will lead to health problems. You may think they taste good, but they are well seasoned and prepared poisons. They are the reason why so many are physically, mentally and spiritually sick. Instead of embracing the truth and proper foods, people are hooked on poisons and lies.”
Source: Topsy-Turvy World - Vegan Anarchy
“Avoid prologues: they can be annoying, especially a prologue following an introduction that comes after a foreword.”
“Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children’s strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms even if it doesn’t comprehend. Don’t ask for advice from them and don’t expect any understanding; but believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is strength and blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it.”
“Avoid pulpits, platforms, stages and pedestals. Keep to the hard ground. It is the only way you can judge your approximate status as a man.”
Source: Juan de Mairena
“Avoid putting attention on anything that disturbs you.”
Source: Life Is A Cocktail
“Avoid putting yourself in situations to apologize.”
“Avoid restaurants with names that are improbable descriptions, such as the Purple Goose, the Blue Kangaroo or the Quilted Orangutan.”
“Avoid results-by volume approach, instead focus on few critically important but uncomfortable actions.”
“Avoid retirement playgrounds like poison, because that's exactly what they are.”
“Avoid running at all times.”
“Avoid sarcasm. Don't insist on the last word.”
“Avoid saying a lot when you are hurt or angry, you may utter words that you may not be able to edit or withdraw later.”
Source: The Greatest Proposal
“Avoid second-quality issues in making up a portfolio unless they are demonstrable bargains.”
Source: The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel
“Avoid secret's! Be open about which you are. It takes too much energy to hide in the closet about any issue.”
“Avoid self-righteousness like the devil- nothing is so self-blinding.”
Source: Why Don't We Learn from History?
“Avoid selling to dumb customers, there aren't enough left!”
“Avoid shame, but do not seek glory; nothing so expensive as glory.”
Source: A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith
“Avoid sin: ... all your deeds are faithfully recorded.”
“Avoid singularity. There may often be less vanity in following the new modes than in adhering to the old ones. It is true that the foolish invent them, but the wise may conform to, instead of contradicting, them.”
“Avoid sloth, bad company, dangerous conversations, and games; remembering that time passes and never returns, that you have a soul, and that if you lose your soul, you lose all.”
Source: The Hidden Treasure: Holy Mass
“Avoid spending too much on one thing.”
“Avoid stock expressions (like the plague, as William Safire used to say) and repetitions. Don't say that as a boy your grandmother used to read to you, unless at that stage of her life she really was a boy, in which case you have probably thrown away a better intro. If something is worth hearing or listening to, it's very probably worth reading. So, this above all: Find your own voice.”
Source: Mortality
“Avoid studies of which the result dies with the worker.”
Source: The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci
“Avoid such situations in which you are unnecessarily burdened with rubbish. You already have too much as it is, you need to be unburdened of it. And you go on collecting it as if it is something precious. Talk less, listen only to the essential, be telegraphic in talking and listening. If you talk less, if you listen less, slowly slowly you will see that a cleanliness, a feeling of purity, as if you have just taken a bath, will start arising within you. That becomes the necessary soil for meditation to arise. Don't go on reading all kinds of nonsense.”
“Avoid taking a definite stand on great public issues either in the Senate or before the people. Bend your energies towards making friends of key men in all classes of voters.”
“Avoid teams at all cost. Keep your circle small. Never join a group that has a name.”
Source: When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?
“Avoid that romantic trap: saying more than you feel, forcing yourself to feel more than you've said!”
Source: A Perilous Advantage: The Best of Natalie Clifford Barney