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“All moments of joy include an element of happiness. But not all moments of happiness include joy. Happiness often comes from drive reduction-avoidance of pain or the pursuit of pleasure for pleasure's sake. The essence of joy, on the other hand, is spirit.”

Moments Hands Pain Happiness Joy Spirit Pleasure Elements Essence Sake Pursuit Avoidance Reduction Joy Happiness Moments Of Happiness

Author:Laurel Mellin

“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.”

People Thinking Years Reality Lasts Used Seeing Last Year Avoidance Accessibility

Author:Martha Stewart

“Much of the research into humans' risk-avoidance machinery shows that it is antiquated and unfit for the modern world; it is made to counter repeatable attacks and learn from specifics. If someone narrowly escapes being eaten by a tiger in a certain cave, then he learns to avoid that cave.”

Ifs World Humans Made Shows Certain Risk Modern Research Tigers Caves Machinery Modern World Avoidance Specifics

Author:Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“I cannot emphasize enough how wrongheaded this is. Withholding criticism and ignoring differences are racism in its purest form. Yet these cultural experts fail to notice that, through their anxious avoidance of criticizing non-Western countries, they trap the people who represent these cultures in a state of backwardness. The experts may have the best of intentions, but as we all know, the road to hell is paved with good intentions.”

People Knows May Country States Enough Form Culture Differences Hell Failing Racism Criticism Intention Western Experts Criticize Anxious Traps Avoidance Good Intentions Withholding

Author:Ayaan Hirsi Ali

“Mental anguish always results from the avoidance of legitimate suffering.”

Suffering Results Child Abuse Anguish Avoidance

Author:Stefan Molyneux

“Holiness is the sum of a million little things — the avoidance of little evils and little foibles, the setting aside of little bits of worldliness and little acts of compromise, the putting to death of little inconsistencies and little indiscretions, the attention to little duties and little dealings, the hard work of little self-denials and little self-restraints, the cultivation of little benevolences and little forbearances.”

“Golf is the ultimate avoidance activity for the dysfunctional dad. A game so nonsensically difficult, so pointless, so irrationally time consuming, the word golf itself can only stand for ‘Get Out, Leave Family.’”

Games Difficult Dad Activity Ultimate Golf Consuming Pointless Avoidance Time Consuming

Author:Jerry Seinfeld

“No precautions, and no precautionary principle, can avoid problems that we do not yet foresee. We need a stance of problem-fixing, not just problem-avoidance.”

Needs Problem Inspiration Motivation Principles Activism Avoidance Fixing Stance Precaution

Author:David Deutsch

“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

“Acting is the art of speaking in a loud, clear voice and the avoidance of bumping into the furniture.”

Art Voice Acting Clear Theatre Loud Furniture Avoidance

Author:Alfred Lunt

“This avoidance of the difficult things of Scripture — of sinfulness and hell and God’s notable severity — is idolatrous and cowardly. If a man or a woman who teaches the Scriptures is afraid to explain to you the severity of God, they have betrayed you, and they love their ego more than they love you.”

Ifs Men Difficult Teach Hell Love You Ego Scripture Betrayed Difficult Things Notable Avoidance Cowardly Severity Sinfulness

Author:Matt Chandler

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

Solve Temporary Avoidance

Book:Uncommon: Finding Your Path to Significance

Source: Uncommon: Finding Your Path to Significance

“Certainly all "progressive" thought, has assumed tacitly that human beings desire nothing beyond ease, security, and avoidance of pain... Hitler, because in his joyless mind he feels it with exceptional strength, knows that human beings don't only want comfort, safety, short working-hours, hygiene, birth-control and, in general, common sense; they also, at least intermittently, want struggle and self-sacrifice, not to mention drums, flags and loyalty-parades. However they may be as economic theories, Fascism and Nazism are psychologically far sounder than any hedonistic conception of life.”

“All work is the avoidance of harder work.”

Harder Avoidance

Author:James Richardson

“Avoiding problems you need to face is avoiding the life you need to live.”

“The really important thing in life is not the avoidance of mistakes, but the obedience of faith. By obedience, the man is led step by step to correct his errors, whereas nothing will ever happen to him if he doesn't get going.”

Ifs Men Important Happens Life Is Mistake Steps He Man Important Things Errors Obedience Things In Life Avoidance

Book:Reflections: On Life's Most Crucial Questions

Source: Reflections: On Life's Most Crucial Questions

“But avoidance allows you to believe that you're making all kinds of strides when you're not.”

Believe Kind All Kinds Avoidance Stride

Book:Breaking Night

Source: Breaking Night

“Awe is not a very comfortable standpoint for many people... Hence, all about us today, we see avoidance of awe-by burying ourselves in materialist science, for example or in absolutist religious positions; or by locking ourselves into systems, whether corporate, familial, or consumerist; or by stupefying ourselves with drugs.”

People Today Religious Example Position Drug Comfortable Corporate Awe Existential Avoidance Standpoint Burying

Author:Kirk J. Schneider

“Avoidance of mistakes is the beginning, as it is the end, of mastery in chess.”

Ends Mistake Chess Mastery Avoidance

Author:Eugene Znosko-Borovsky

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

Pay Attention Advice Credit Cards Pay Attention Truthful Avoidance Credit Card Being Truthful

Author:Mary McCarthy

“The avoidance of money is just as psychotic as being attached to money.”

Avoidance Psychotic

Author:Robert Kiyosaki

“The future is only scary if we try to avoid it.”

Ifs Trying Scary Avoidance Bright Future

Author:Simon Sinek

“Sometimes our power resides not in what we do, but in what we don't do.”

Sometimes Restraint Avoidance Refrain Restraining

Author:Paulo Coelho

“I'm from the Midwest, and I loved my family. I had a very good time as a child, but I was also - I have a theory about Jews growing up in the Midwest, that there is an ultimately sort of wonderful avoidance of a lot of things, and a great acceptance of whatever is happening.”

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Author:Bob Balaban

“Job's avoidance of rebellion against God has nothing to do with God being good or wise or anything like that; it's strictly because God is so powerful, and you don't fight something when you are so much weaker than that which you would fight.”

Jobs Fighting Powerful Wise Be Good Rebellion Avoidance Uprising Rebellion Against God

Author:George C. Williams

“People who blame things rarely change things. Blame is an unassailable change-avoidance strategy.”

People God Christian Religious Blame Strategy Avoidance

Author:Andy Stanley

“Virtue is not the absence of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate thing, like pain or a particular smell.”

Pain Moral Virtue Danger Particular Vices Smell Absence Vivid Avoidance

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Both dreams and neurotic dream-states have as their function the avoidance of displeasure, but the dream-states also serve to provide a positive pleasure gain.”

States Dream Pleasure Gains Function Neurotic Avoidance Displeasure

Book:Selected Papers of Karl Abraham, M.D.

Source: Selected Papers of Karl Abraham, M.D.

“I often work by avoidance.”

Work Avoidance

Author:Brian Eno

“If it's cross-country ski season, I'll be out doing that, or snowshoeing up in Quebec. In my California home, I go to the local Y and I like doing yoga. It's been hugely beneficial to me in injury avoidance.”

Ifs Country Home Yoga Crosses Seasons Locals California Injury Beneficial Avoidance Skis Quebec

Author:Neil Peart

“When a child encounters something he or she does not want, that child has all kinds of maneuvers to avoid it, such as crying, hiding, or fighting. . . Unless we are taught to face our problems directly and work through them, the pattern of avoidance will be repeated; it can be a natural, accepted way to act.”

Way Want Kind Children Doe Problem Faces Fighting Natural Cry Taught Patterns Accepted All Kinds Encounters Hiding Avoidance

Author:Tarthang Tulku

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

Computer Errors Users Miraculous Avoidance Personal Computers

Author:Robert Burchfield

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