A Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with A. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Avoid witticisms at the expense of others.”
“Avoid working directly under somebody you don't admire and don't want to be like.”
“Avoid working in windowless environments for good health.”
“Avoid working with a boss, manager, or individual who lacks trust in you, understanding of your capabilities, or recognition of your talent and abilities.
Their inability to see your potential, motivation, passion, and ambition will render your efforts futile, as they are essentially blind, deaf, and dumb to your true value.
Seek out opportunities to work with leaders who value your contributions, believe in your potential, and actively support your growth. Avoid working with those who fail to recognize your talents and abilities, as their lack of insight will hinder your progress and limit your opportunities for success!
Your present is the architect of your future. What you become in the future is the direct result of the effort you put in today. If you don't get the opportunities, trust, and growth you need today, you will never reach your full potential. The future you envision for yourself is within your grasp, but it requires dedication and hard work in the present.”
“Avoid your comfort zone - it's probably outdated anyway.”
“Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.”
“Avoid, which many grave men have not done, words taken from sacred subjects and from elevated poetry: these we have seen vilely prostituted. Avoid too the society of the barbarians who misemploy them.”
Source: The Works of Walter Savage Landor
“Avoid,Profaneness; come not here: Nothing but holy, pure, and clear, Or that which groaneth to be so, May at his peril further go.”
“Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves.”
Source: Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
“Avoidance behavior is a response designed to protect the infant from behavioral disorganization. If we transfer this concept to adult life, we can see that an avoidant infant might very well develop into a person whose principal need was to find some kind of meaning and order in life which was not entirely, or even chiefly, dependent upon interpersonal relationships”
Source: Solitude a Return to the Self
“Avoidance doesn’t solve anything; it merely serves as a temporary salve.”
Source: Uncommon: Finding Your Path to Significance
“Avoidance is a great tool to get away from food in my face all day long.”
Source: I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down
“Avoidance is a wonderful therapy”
Source: Linger
“Avoidance makes it impossible to check out your what-if thoughts and imagined catastrophes. It eliminates the possibility of learning that your anticipatory anxiety might be an inaccurate predictor of the upcoming event.”
Source: Overcoming Anticipatory Anxiety: A CBT Guide for Moving past Chronic Indecisiveness, Avoidance, and Catastrophic Thinking
“Avoidance of experiences is a fixation and it binds you to the world, it binds you to the personal self.”
“Avoidance of mistakes is the beginning, as it is the end, of mastery in chess.”
“Avoidance of mistakes may lead us to steer clear of new experiences and default to familiarity to reduce the chance of 'failure'. Society's definition of failure is misguided.”
“Avoidance of self deception is a matter of integrity not comfort.”
“Avoidance of sin is lighter than the pain of remorse.”
“Avoidance of toxic people in the workplace is always a good strategy.”
“Avoidance or merely the passage of time will not necessarily make the emotion dissipate. It is simply not true that time automatically heals all wounds.”
Source: The Catholic Guide to Depression: How the Saints, the Sacraments, and Psychiatry Can Help You Break Its Grip and Find Happiness Again
“Avoidance therapy does not work. One major reason for that is because Avoidance Therapy (diversion, think yourself happy, positive affirmations) is predicated on the validity of 'Failure of Will.' Depression is not a choice.”
Source: Mickey and the Gargoyle
“Avoidant: It is very important for you to maintain your independence and self-sufficiency and you often prefer autonomy to intimate relationships.”
Source: Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find—and Keep—Love
“Avoidants purport to want love, respect, and care in their lives and in their relationships. Yet it is very difficult to even approach the specifics with them. To start, they are unsure of themselves, and they need to communicate some certainty to others.”
Source: Hiding In The Light: Understanding Avoidant Personality Disorder
“Avoiding a bathtub because your parents tried to kill you in one isn't the same as avoiding your entire life by becoming a wolf.”
Source: Shiver Series (Shiver, Linger, Forever, Sinner)
“Avoiding accountability and shifting blame only delays the path to growth and self-improvement.”
“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.”
“Avoiding any of the tenets of amateurism, after all, certainly does not make you a good professional. Perhaps it is better to see fearless flair and professional steeliness as two ideas which must always coexist. One half of sport may be about harnessing human talent, but the other half depends on setting it free.”
“Avoiding complexity reduces bugs.”
“Avoiding critical conversations does not mean we should avoid critical situations, mistakes, problems, or inappropriate behavior.”
Source: Conversations Worth Having: Using Appreciative Inquiry to Fuel Productive and Meaningful Engagement
“Avoiding depression with large daily doses of television.”
“Avoiding Drama is the best way to live happy”
“Avoiding fear and pain can cause them to grow stronger. The trick with fear is to go with it, to let it do it's work. Once fear has put us in touch with our inner issue it can diminish. In fact, simply acknowledging fear seems to lessen it.”
“Avoiding feelings is a short break, not a solution.”
Source: Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
“Avoiding humiliation is the core of tragedy and comedy.”
Source: The House of Blue Leaves and Chaucer in Rome
“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.”
Source: Going Underground
“Avoiding me, Quen downed a swallow of wine. "Trent is a fine young man," he said, watching the remaining wine swirl. "Yes... " I drawled, cautiously. "If you can call a drug lord and outlawed-medicine manufacturer a fine young man.”
Source: Ever After
“Avoiding occasions of expense by cultivating peace, we should remember also that timely disbursements to prepare for danger frequently prevent much greater disbursements to repel it”
Source: Washington's Farewell Address: The Proclamation of Jackson Against Nullification, and the Declaration of Independence
“Avoiding offense means that we don't accept each other as equals.”
“Avoiding others because they don’t suit my way of life is tragic.”
“Avoiding pregnancy is not an absolute evil.”
“Avoiding pregnancy is not an absolute evil. In certain cases, as in this one, or in the one I mentioned of Blessed Paul VI, it was clear.”
“Avoiding problems doesn't make them go away - you think it does, but it really doesn't. They're just postponed. Those problems just stay inside your subconscious and brew until your body gets to a point where it's had enough and decides to release some of the stress itself. That's what an anxiety attack is! It happens when you don't know how to vent your frustration, fears, stress, sadness, madness, whatever it is that bothers you, the things you should be confronting and getting closure with. If you don't confront these things and deal with them, your body does it for you.”
“Avoiding problems you need to face is avoiding the life you need to live.”
“Avoiding relationships, people, or situations won’t guarantee a problem-free life. Even a seemingly perfect life brings worries, tears, thoughts, and stress. Problems are inevitable. You must find ways to solve them, otherwise, you’ll be forced to live with them. Ignoring problems doesn’t make them disappear, in fact, they tend to pile up until they become overwhelming. Take control of your life by addressing one problem at a time. You don’t need to have it all figured out. Just start with one problem, one decision, one brave moment. That’s how you build a life of peace, purpose, and power.”
“Avoiding risk is not much of a goal...whether you crawl into a hole or walk a high wire, nobody gets out of here alive. We cannot grow without challenge.”
“Avoiding sorrow you won't find happiness, road to happiness goes through sorrow.”
Source: Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets
“Avoiding temptation is much easier than resisting it.”
Source: Living the Thin Life: Creative Ways to Maintain Your Weight for Life
“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.”
“Avoiding the bad means you risk avoiding the good, too, and I’d rather be hurt than never feel this.”
Source: Credence