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“If I don’t talk about my religion, if I say I’m not discussing it or different humanitarian things I’m working on, they’re like, “He’s avoiding it.” If I do talk about it, it becomes, “Oh, he’s proselytizing.””

Ifs Different Humanitarian Avoiding Discussing Proselytizing

Author:Tom Cruise

“Good health is about being able to fully enjoy the time we do have. It is about being as functional as possible throughout our entire lives and avoiding crippling, painful and lengthy battles with disease. There are many better ways to die, and to live.”

Way Able Dies Enjoy Battle Disease Painful Avoiding Better Ways Good Health Lengthy

Book:The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-Term Health

Source: The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-Term Health

“I've always found that avoiding insanity is useful in life - which in American politics sometimes puts one in the minority.”

Sometimes Political Found Insanity Minorities Avoiding American Politics

Author:Tony Blankley

“Becoming a vegan is a sure way of completely avoiding participation in the abuse of farmed animals. Vegans are a living demonstration of the fact that we do not need to exploit animals for food.”

Way Needs Facts Animal Becoming Abuse Vegetarian Vegan Participation Avoiding Exploits Demonstration

Book:The Ethics of What We Eat: Why Our Food Choices Matter

Source: The Ethics of What We Eat: Why Our Food Choices Matter

“Fewer people are bent from hard work than are crooked from avoiding it.”

People Hard Hard Work Coaching Fewer Avoiding Bent Crooked

Book:See You at the Top

Source: See You at the Top

“But every point of view is a point of blindness: it incapacitates us for every other point of view. From a certain point of view, the room in which I write has no door. I turn around. Now I see the door, but the room has no window. I look up. From this point of view, the room has no floor. I look down; it has no ceiling. By avoiding particular points of view we are able to have an intuition of the whole. The ideal for a Christian is to become holy, a word which derives from “whole.”

Writing Looks Whole Able Christian Certain Turns Rooms Views Doors Particular Holy Ideals Window Intuition Point Of View Look Up Avoiding Blindness Ceilings

Author:Richard Wurmbrand

“Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about.”

Mean Happiness Causes Change Silence Talking Danger Speech Bird Misfortunes Shut Up Avoiding Silence Is Cages Parrots Caged Talkative Caged Birds Bird Flying Bird Cage

Author:Sakya Pandita

“There is a simple way of avoiding excess risk-taking by the managers of our financial institutions. It is to make it a crime ... had a crime for reckless management of a financial institution been on the books, Northern Rock and RBS would not have blown up.”

Way Book Simple Risk Rocks Crime Management Institutions Financial Managers Excess Avoiding Reckless Risk Management Risk-taking Simple Ways Financial Institutions Financial Risk

Author:Paul Collier

“One of the best ways of avoiding necessary and even urgent tasks is to seem to be busily employed on things that are already done.”

Way Done Seems Work Tasks Best Way Statistics Avoiding Employed Urgent

Book:The affluent society

Source: The affluent society

“It is not a demonstration of kindness or friendship to the people we care about to join them in indulging in wrongheaded, negative feelings. We do a better service to ourselves and others by remaining detached and avoiding melodramatic reactions.”

People Feelings Motivational Care Kindness Negative Reactions Avoiding Demonstration Detached Negative Feelings

Author:Epictetus

“Meditation practice is neither holding on nor avoiding; it is a settling back into the moment, opening to what is there.”

Moments Practice Meditation Opening Settling Avoiding Holding On Meditation Practice

Book:Seeking the Heart of Wisdom: The Path of Insight Meditation

Source: Seeking the Heart of Wisdom: The Path of Insight Meditation

“Intuition is neither the ability to engage prophecy nor a means of avoiding financial loss or painful relationships. It is actually the ability to use energy data to make decisions in the immediate moment.”

Mean Moments Use Energy Loss Ability Decision Financial Painful Intuition Data Prophecy Avoiding Financial Loss

Book:Anatomy Of The Spirit

Source: Anatomy Of The Spirit

“Whenever you are immersed in compulsive thinking, you are avoiding what is. You don't want to be where you are. Here, Now.”

Thinking Want Where You Are Avoiding Stillness Speaks

Book:Stillness Speaks

Source: Stillness Speaks

“It's better to make a mistake with the full force of your being than to timidly avoid mistakes with a trembling spirit. Responsibility means recognizing both pleasure and price, action and consequence, then making a choice.”

Mean Motivational Action Spirit Choices Force Pleasure Mistake Responsibility Wise Words Consequence Making Mistakes Avoiding Recognizing Learning From Mistakes Trembling Price Timidity

Book:Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition

Source: Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition

“The negro has maintained his racial purity by his well known habit of avoiding baths”

Wells Known Habit Purity Avoiding Well Known Baths

Author:Che Guevara

“Faith is not a leap in the dark; it’s the exact opposite. It’s a commitment based on evidence… It is irrational to reduce all faith to blind faith and then subject it to ridicule. That provides a very anti-intellectual and convenient way of avoiding intelligent discussion.”

Way Dark Subjects Intellectual Evidence Commitment Opposites Intelligent Blind Discussion Leap Irrational Avoiding Ridicule Convenient Blind Faith

Author:John Lennox

“It is more important to know where you are going than to get there quickly. Do not mistake activity for achievement. Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs, therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity or undue depression in adversity.”

“For me, personally, when I'm afraid of something - when you're afraid of something, normally you try to go away, you try to avoid it. Instead of avoiding it, to overcome your fear, I believe you need to embrace it.”

Needs Trying Believe I Believe Overcoming Embrace Martial Arts Going Away Avoiding

Author:Georges St-Pierre

“You can't buy peace by just wishing it and avoiding the challenges that other nations present to you.”

Nations Wish Challenges Avoiding

Author:Fred Thompson

“Self-centeredness will bring on the destruction of our world. National pride separates people. All people need the same thing. When you really get down to it, you'll find that all people need good food, clean water, clean air, and a decent environment, meaning education as to how to relate to one another and to avoid conflict, how to accept the differences where different people draw different conclusions.”

“In romance we feel the need to zoom in and expound on our partner's foibles in intimate detail; in friendship we tend to do the opposite, avoiding confrontation through fear, lethargy or both.”

Needs Feels Romance Opposites Details Partners Intimate Avoiding Confrontation Lethargy Foibles Zoom

Author:Mariella Frostrup

“Be sure to ‘notice’ ideas when you have them. Stop. Take the time to consider them seriously. And if your gut tells you they're compelling, be fearless in their pursuit . we live life only once. So, rather than avoiding the risk of trying, avoid the risk of not trying. Nothing is more haunting than thinking, ‘I wish I had’.”

Ifs Thinking Trying Ideas Wish Risk Pursuit Fearless Live Life Guts Compelling Avoiding Haunting

Author:Tim Westergren

“A defensive referendum is for avoiding war and to help keep the Taiwanese people free of fear.”

People War Helping Avoiding Referendums

Author:Chen Shui-bian

“In other words these children, by avoiding the early drill on combinations, tables, and that sort of thing, had been able, in one year, to attain the level of accomplishment which the traditionally taught children had reached after three and one-half years of arithmetical drill.”

Years Children Able Three Levels Education Half Taught Mathematics Tables Combination Accomplishment Avoiding Drills One Half Half A Year

Author:Louis P. Benezet

“My father and he had cemented one of those English friendships which begin by avoiding intimacies and eventually eliminate speech altogether.”

Father Friendship Tears Speech Intimacy Avoiding Courtesy

Author:Jorge Luis Borges

“When we come into the present, we begin to feel the life around us again, but we also encounter whatever we have been avoiding. We must have the courage to face whatever is present - our pain, our desires, our grief, our loss, our secret hopes our love - everything that moves us most deeply.”

Feels Has Beens Pain Faces Moving Desire Loss Grief Secret Honor Encounters Avoiding Our Love Secret Love

Author:Jack Kornfield

“Make no mistake about it, you are dumb. You’re a group of incredibly well-educated dumb people. I was there. We all were there. You’re barely functional. There are some screw-ups headed your way. I wish I could tell you that there was a trick to avoiding the screw-ups, but the screw-ups, they’re a-coming for ya. It’s a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.”

People Way Wells Wish Mistake Groups Tricks Educated Dumb Combination Memorable Graduation Avoiding Unpredictable Screws Screw Ups Well Educated Funny Graduation Dumb People

Author:Aaron Sorkin

“The history of taxation shows that taxes which are inherently excessive are not paid. The high rates inevitably put pressure upon the taxpayer to withdraw his capital from productive business and invest it in tax-exempt securities or to find other lawful methods of avoiding the realization of taxable income. The result is that the sources of taxation are drying up; wealth is failing to carry its share of the tax burden; and capital is being diverted into channels which yield neither revenue to the Government nor profit to the people.”

“Souls who can recognize God in the most trivial, the most grievous and the most mortifying things that happen to them in their lives, honor everything equally with delight and rejoicing, and welcome with open arms what others dread and avoid.”

Life Soul God Happens Lord Arms Honor Delight Welcome Rejoice Dread Avoiding Commitment To God Confidence In God Intimacy With God Triviality God Works In Mysterious Ways Open Arms

Book:For God's Greater Glory: Gems of Jesuit Spirituality

Source: For God's Greater Glory: Gems of Jesuit Spirituality

“Instead of being afraid of the challenge and failure, be afraid of avoiding the challenge and doing nothing”

Challenges Avoiding Doing Nothing Being Afraid

Author:Soichiro Honda

“To be alone means that you avoid bad company. But to have a true friend is better than being alone.”

Mean Friendship Company Friends Islamic Avoiding Real Friends True Friend Being Alone Inspirational Friendship Islamic Wisdom True Friend Is Caliphs Bad Company

Author:Umar

“Be a good steward of your gifts. Protect your time. Feed your inner life. Avoid too much noise. Read good books, have good sentences in your ears. Be by yourself as often as you can. Walk. Take the phone off the hook. Work regular hours.”

Source: A hundred white daffodils: essays, the Akhmatova translations, newspaper columns, notes, interviews, and one poem

“The Hamas has taken the path of avoiding causing harm to Zionist interests outside of Palestine, not from weakness or lack of ability to do so, but because Hamas does not wish for further fronts to be opened against it around the world”

World Doe Wish Interest Ability Path Taken Fronts Weakness Harm Around The World Avoiding Palestine Zionist Hamas

Author:Ahmed Yassin

“Guilt is only another way of avoiding informed action.”

Way Action Guilt Avoiding Another Way

Book:Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

Source: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

“In avoiding the appearance of evil, I am not sure but I have sometimes unnecessarily deprived myself and others of innocent enjoyments.”

Sometimes Evil Appearance Innocent Not Sure Enjoyment Avoiding Deprived

Author:Rutherford B. Hayes

“Owning your own home is America's unique recipe for avoiding revolution and promoting pseudo-equality at the same time. To keep citizens puttering in their yards instead of sputtering on the barricades, the government has gladly deprived itself of billions in tax revenues by letting home owners deduct mortgage interest payments.”

Source: Reflections In A Jaundiced Eye

“When dissonance is present, in addition to trying to reduce it, the person will actively avoid situations and information which would likely increase the dissonance.”

Trying Persons Situation Psychology Information Increase Avoiding Reducing Presenting Dissonance Cognitive Dissonance

Book:A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance

Source: A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance

“Humility is the safeguard of chastity. In the matter of purity, there is no greater danger than not fearing the danger. For my part, when I find a man secure of himself and without fear, I give him up for lost. I am less alarmed for one who is tempted and who resists by avoiding the occasions, than for one who is not tempted and is not careful to avoid occasions. When a person puts himself in an occasion, saying, I shall not fall, it is an almost infallible sign that he will fall, and with great injury to his soul.”

Men Giving Persons Soul Matter Fall Lost Greater Danger Humility Catholic Careful Secure Occasions Purity Injury Avoiding Tempted Chastity Infallible Chastity Purity Purity And Love

Author:Philip Neri

“You don't become completely free by just avoiding being a slave; you also need to avoid becoming a master.”

Needs Masters Becoming Slave Thrive Avoiding

Book:The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

Source: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

“The principle of nonviolent resistance seeks to reconcile the truths of two opposites-Acquiescence and violence -while avoiding the extremes and immoralities of both.”

Inspirational Two Principles Violence Opposites Extremes Resistance Avoiding Reconcile Immorality Nonviolent Resistance Acquiescence Two Opposites

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“De-Christianizing America has been high on the progressive agenda, and, thanks to the government (especially the federal courts), it has been a great success. Nor can we overlook the contribution of the entertainment industry, which now determines what passes for 'culture.' The main practical vehicle of de-Christianization has been the Sexual Revolution. A few radicals have called for the abolition of the family, but most liberals have been more discreet, avoiding hostile rhetoric while quietly but constantly pursuing policies that result in lower birthrates and fatherless children.”

“I think it is important for software to avoiding imposing a cognitive style on workers and their work.”

Thinking Important Style Workers Software Avoiding Imposing Cognitive

Author:Edward Tufte

“I want to be clear. No company is too big to be prosecuted. We have zero tolerance for corporate fraud, but we also recognize the importance of avoiding collateral consequences whenever possible.”

Want Bigs Company Clear Consequence Importance Tolerance Corporate Zero Fraud Avoiding Hype Collateral Zero Tolerance

Author:Alberto Gonzales

“Direct your attention inward. Have a look inside yourself. What kind of thoughts is your mind producing? What do you feel? Direct your attention into the body. Is there any tension? Once you detect that there is a low level of unease, the background static, see in what way you are avoiding, resisting, or denying life-by denying the Now.”

Source: The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

“Emotional sickness is avoiding reality at any cost. Emotional health is facing reality at any cost.”

Reality Motivational Emotional Cost Sickness Adoption Avoiding Emotional Health Facing Reality

Author:M. Scott Peck

“There is little to compare with the thrill of standing next to the creature in the winner's enclosure avoiding his hooves and receiving the congratulations of the press, your trainer and friends who backed it. What makes the experience so satisfying is that you, the owner, have had absolutely nothing to do with the horse winning.”

Littles Next Winning Creatures Standing Horse Presses Winner Compare Owners Racing Satisfying Receiving Avoiding Thrill Congratulations Absolutely Nothing Trainers Enclosure

Author:Robert Morley

“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”

Should Remember Greater Danger Debt Occasions Expenses Avoiding Cultivating Timely National Debt Farewell Address Oppurtunity

Book:Washington's Farewell Address: The Proclamation of Jackson Against Nullification, and the Declaration of Independence

Source: Washington's Farewell Address: The Proclamation of Jackson Against Nullification, and the Declaration of Independence

“Take death for example. A great deal of our effort goes into avoiding it. We make extraordinary efforts to delay it, and often consider its intrusion a tragic event. Yet we'd find it hard to live without it. Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it.”

Ifs Giving Hard Values Deals Effort Too Much Our Lives Events Example Quiet Importance Extraordinary Tragic Meaningless Avoiding Delay Intrusion Tragic Events

Author:Ray Kurzweil

“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.”

Inspirational Facts Seems Pain Grows Causes Issues Stronger Tricks Avoiding Diminish

Author:John Earle

“You have to be an original individual; you have to find your innermost core on your own, with no guide, no guiding scriptures. It is a dark night, but with the intense fire of inquiry you are bound to come to the sunrise. Everybody who has burned with intense inquiry has found the sunrise. Others only believe. Those who believe are not religious, they are simply avoiding the great adventure of religion by believing.”

Believe Night Found Individual Religious Dark Fire Adventure Originals Bounds Guides Core Scripture Intense Burned Sunrise Avoiding Inquiry Dark Night Great Adventure

Author:Rajneesh