Quotessence
Home / Topics / Avoiding Quotes

Avoiding Quotes

Browse 576 quotes about Avoiding.

Related topics

WayPeopleIfsThinkingMenPainKnowsWorldArtAvoiding PainMeanRiskImportantNeedsTryingFeelsInspirationalLife IsShouldYearsMindUseEvilFeelingsSeemsActionBelieveEnergyWantChildrenEndsGivingHumansTalkingDoeValuesWarWholeConfrontationHardHelpingIdeasIssuesLittlesLooksMistakeOrderSometimesWellsWritingBecomingBookCausesConflictDealsDifferentDifficultyDoneFactsFirstsForceFoundHappensInterestLifeMayPleasureRealitySaidSelfSituationStepsTwoAvoiding LifeBodyCasesChallengesChoicesCommonDangerDebtDesireExerciseHabitHoursLongLossMadeMomentsMotivationalPathSufferingTermAdvantageAvoiding DeathBigsCertainClearConsequenceDiesmore

Avoiding Quotes

“You can live a lifetime and, at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself. You learn to watch other people, but you never watch yourself because you strive against loneliness. If you read a book, or shuffle a deck of cards, or care for a dog, you are avoiding yourself. The abhorrence of loneliness is as natural as wanting to live at all. If it were otherwise, men would never have bothered to make an alphabet, nor to have fashioned words out of what were only animal sounds, nor to have crossed continents - each man to see what the other looked like.”

PeopleIfsKnowsMenBookEndsCareSoundNaturalAnimalWatchesDogLonelinessLifetimeStriveCardsAbout YourselfContinentsAvoidingBotheredDeckAlphabetShuffleAbhorrenceDeck Of Cards
Book:West with the Night
Create image

“How is Angeline?” asked Dimitri. “Is she improving?” Eddie and I exchanged glances. So much for avoiding her indiscretions. “Improving how exactly?” I asked. “In combat, in following the dress code, or in keeping her hands to herself?” “Or in turning off caps-lock?” added Eddie. “You noticed that too?” I asked. “Hard not to,” he said.”

SaidHardHandsDressesFollowingCodeCombatLocksImprovingAvoidingGlancesCapsDimitriDress Code
Book:The Golden Lily: A Bloodlines Novel
Create image

“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.”

IfsThinkingKnowsShouldDoeEnoughProblemBodyHappensDealsKnow HowSadnessAnxietyStressMadnessYour BodyReleaseBotherFrustrationGoing AwaySubconsciousAvoidingHad EnoughConfrontingClosureAnxiety Attacks
Author:Sully Erna
Create image

“They stared at her curiously, and she caught snatches of conversation in two or three languages. It wasn't hard to guess their content, and she smiled a bit primly. Youth, it appeared, was full of illusions as to how much sexual energy two people might have to spare while hiking forty or so kilometers a day, concussed, stunned, diseased, on poor food and little sleep, alternating caring for a wounded man with avoiding becoming dinner for every carnivore within range - and with a coup to plan for the end.”

PeopleMenLittlesTwoEndsHardMightThreeEnergyLanguageBitsSleepPoorPlansYouthBecomingConversationIllusionCaughtCaringDinnerRangeFortyHikingWoundedSparesAvoidingStunnedDiseasedCoupsCarnivores
Author:Lois McMaster Bujold
Create image

“One thing you who had secure or happy childhoods should understand about those of us who did not. We who control our feelings, who avoid conflicts at all costs, or seem to seek them. Who are hypersensitive, self-critical, compulsive, workaholic, and above all survivors. We are not that way from perversity, and we cannot just relax and let it go. We’ve learned to cope in ways you never had to.”

WayInspirationalShouldSelfFeelingsSeemsUnderstandingOne ThingChildhoodCostConflictLetting GoSeekingCriticalHappySecureSensitiveI've LearnedRelaxSurvivorAvoidingLet It GoCopingWorkaholicHappy ChildhoodPerversityUnhappy Childhood
Author:Piers Anthony
Create image

“We all have ideas about love and death. We keep a close eye out for them our entire lives, seeking one and avoiding the other, knowing all the while that both are mostly beyond our control. It is a both scary and exciting predicament. In the end, it all depends on how you look at it. One thing is for sure; it is never quite what you expect.”

LooksIdeasEndsEyeKnowingOne ThingDependsExcitingSeekingScaryAvoidingPredicamentsLove And Death
Book:Ghostgirl: Lovesick
Create image

“They think that intelligence is about noticing things are relevant (detecting patterns); in a complex world, intelligence consists in ignoring things that are irrelevant (avoiding false patterns)”

ThinkingWorldComplexesPatternsRelevantAvoidingIrrelevantNoticingNoticing Things
Book:Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile
Create image

“I touched the combination lock. I concentrated so hard I felt like I was dead-lifting five hundred pounds. My pulse quickening. A line of sweat trickled down my nose. Finally I felt gears turning. Metal groaned, tumblers clicked, and the bolts popped back. Carefully avoiding the handle, I pried open the door with my fingertips and extracted an unbroken vial of green liquid. Hal exhaled. Thalia kissed me on the cheek, which she probably shouldn't haven't done while I was holding a tube of deadly poison. "You are so good," she said. Did that make the risk worth? Yeah, pretty much.”

SaidHardDoneFeltLinesFiveRiskDoorsHavensHundredYeahGreenHandleCombinationNosesPoisonTouchedPoundsSweatMetalsCheeksLocksAvoidingPulseLiftingGearsLiquidTubesBoltsUnbrokenFingertipsQuickening
Author:Rick Riordan
Create image

“Procrastinating is number three on my Stupid List. You still end up exactly where you didn't want to be, doing exactly what you didn't want to do, withe the only difference being that you lost all that time in between, during which you could have been doing something fun. Even worse, you probably stayed in a stressed-out, crappy mood the whole time you were avoiding it. If you know something is inevitable, do it and get it over with. Move on. Life is short.”

IfsKnowsWantHas BeensStillsEndsWholeMovingLife IsThreeLostFunDifferencesNumbersStupidListsMoodInevitableAvoidingCould Have BeenLife Is ShortStressedProcrastinatingStressed OutNumber Three
Author:Karen Marie Moning
Create image

“Hope is the strongest driving force for a people. Hope which brings about change, which produces new realities, is what opens man's road to freedom. Once hope has taken hold, courage must unite with wisdom. That is the only way of avoiding violence, the only way of maintaining the calm one needs to respond peacefully to offenses.”

PeopleMenWayNeedsWisdomRealityForceFreedomCourageTakenViolenceProduceCalmDrivingStrongestOffenseAvoidingMaintainingDriving Force
Author:Oscar Arias
Create image

“The study of history is the best medicine for a sick mind; for in history you have a record of the infinite variety of human experience plainly set out for all to see; and in that record you can find yourself and your country both examples and warnings; fine things to take as models, base things rotten through and through, to avoid.”

InspirationalMindHumansCountryWisdomMotivationalHistoryStudyRecordsExampleFineWise WordsWords Of WisdomModelsExperienceSickInfiniteMedicineVarietyFinding YourselfWarningAvoidingHuman ExperienceRottenFine Things
Book:The History of Early Rome
Create image

“There are two ways of avoiding fear: one is by persuading ourselves that we are immune from disaster, and the other is by the practice of sheer courage. The latter is difficult, and to everybody becomes impossible at a certain point. The former has therefore always been more popular. Primitive magic has the purpose of securing safety, either by injuring enemies, or by protecting oneself by talismans, spells, or incantations.”

WayTwoPurposeCertainReligionDifficultEnemyPracticeImpossibleMagicSafetyOneselfDisasterFormerLatterSpellsPrimitiveSheerAvoidingTwo WaysImmunePersuadingTalismans
Book:Bertrand Russell on God and Religion
Create image

“The animal liberation movement is saying that where animals and humans have similar interests - we might take the interest in avoiding physical pain as an example, for it is an interest that humans clearly share with other animals - those interests are to be counted equally, with no automatic discount just because one of the beings is not human.”

HumansMightPainInterestAnimalShareExampleMovementLiberationWelfareAvoidingAnimal WelfareDiscountsAnimal LiberationHumans And AnimalsPhysical Pain
Author:Peter Singer
Create image

“An unconscious, gentle process whereby people who want to be loving attempt to be so by telling little white lies, by withholding some of the truth about themselves and their feelings in order to avoid conflict. Pseudocommunity is conflict-avoiding; true community is conflict-resolving.”

PeopleWantLittlesFeelingsLyingOrderProcessCommunityWhiteConflictGentleUnconsciousAvoidingWithholdingWhite Lie
Book:The Different Drum: Community-making and peace
Create image

“As far as I know, most organizations are avoiding population issues because they're politically frightened by the charge that comes from some proponents of immigration that if you oppose the immigration policy we have now, you're a racist.. There is no way in the world we can forge a sustainable society without stabilizing the population. ... There's no practical way of stabilizing the population of the U.S. without reducing the immigration rate. When do we decide we have to do something, or do we wait until things are as bad here as they are in the countries people want to leave?”

PeopleIfsKnowsWorldWayWantCountryWaitingIssuesPolicyOrganizationRatePopulationPracticalsImmigrationRacistFrightenedAvoidingReducingImmigration Policy
Author:Gaylord Nelson
Create image

“There has been considerable comment over the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to a soldier. I am afraid this does not seem as remarkable to me as it quite evidently appears to others. I know a great deal of the horrors and tragedies of war. ... The cost of war in human lives is constantly spread before me, written neatly in many ledgers whose columns are gravestones. I am deeply moved to find some means or method of avoiding another calamity of war.”

KnowsHumansMeanDoeHas BeensWarSeemsLife IsDealsWrittenMilitaryHorrorCostTragedyMethodMovedSoldierSpreadHuman LifeRemarkablePrizeCommentAvoidingCalamityColumnsNobelGravestoneNobel Peace PrizeCost Of War
Author:George C. Marshall
Create image

“If men as individuals surrender to the call of their elementary instincts, avoiding pain and seeking satisfaction only for their own selves, the result for them all taken together must be a state of insecurity, of fear, and of promiscuous misery.”

IfsMenSelfStatesPainTogetherIndividualFearResultsTakenSadnessMiseryInstinctSatisfactionSeekingSurrenderInsecurityAvoidingPromiscuousAvoiding PainInsecurity And Fear
Book:Albert Einstein in his own words in two complete books: Relativity-the special and general theory; Out of my later years-the scientist, philosopher and man portrayed through his own words
Create image

“There are four types of men in this world: 1. The man who knows, and knows that he knows; he is wise, so consult him. 2. The man who knows, but doesn't know that he knows; help him not forget what he knows. 3. The man who knows not, and knows that he knows not; teach him. 4. Finally, there is the man who knows not but pretends that he knows; he is a fool, so avoid him.”

KnowsMenWorldInspirationalHelpingWisdomForgetKnowledgeTeachWiseFourSocietyThis WorldHe ManTypeFoolWise WordsWords Of WisdomPretendingFoolishnessAvoidingWise Man Once SaidKnowledge Is Power
Author:Solomon Ibn Gabirol
Create image

“The pain that's created by avoiding hard work is actually much worse than any pain created from the actual work itself. Because if you don't begin to work on those ideas that God has blessed you with, they will become stagnant inside of you and eventually begin to eat away at you. You might seem OK on the outside, but inside you will be ill from not getting those ideas out of your heart and into the world. Stalling leads to sickness. But taking steps, even baby steps, always leads to success.”

IfsWorldInspirationalHeartIdeasHardSeemsMightPainStepsHard WorkBabyBlessedIllSicknessAvoidingStagnantBaby StepsStalling
Book:Do You!: 12 Laws to Access the Power in You to Achieve Happiness and Success
Create image

“There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion. The alternative is only whether the crisis should come sooner as the result of voluntary abandonment of further credit expansion, or later as a final and total catastrophe of the currency system involved.”

ShouldMeanResultsLibertyEconomicInvolvedEconomicsCrisisFinalsCreditAlternativesCollapseCurrencyExpansionAvoidingCatastropheAbandonment
Book:Human action: a treatise on economics
Create image

“Most people have come to prefer certain of lifes experiences and deny and reject others, unaware of the value of the hidden things that may come wrapped in plain and even ugly paper. In avoiding all pain and seeking comfort at all costs, we may be left without intimacy or compassion; in rejecting change and risk we often cheat ourselves of the quest; in denying our suffering we may never know our strength or our greatness”

PeopleKnowsMayPainCertainSufferingValuesLeftCompassionRiskGreatnessComfortCostPaperSeekingUglyDenyIntimacyRejectsQuestsCheatAvoidingRejectingHidden Things
Book:Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories that Heal, 10th Anniversary Edition
Create image

“Golf is the art of driving hard, avoiding the rough, surmounting traps and hazards, aiming straight, and arriving on the green at last, only to end up in a hole in the ground before your companions. The favored pastime of businessmen and their cronies, probably without a full appreciation of its metaphorical implications.”

ArtEndsHardLastsGreenGolfAppreciationDrivingHolesCompanionRoughTrapsBusinessmanAvoidingImplicationsHazardsArrivingPastimeMetaphoricalCronies
Author:Rick Bayan
Create image