About Avoiding Quotes

#1. She tied a robe around herself even though she had no intention of leaving her room - one could never be too careful about avoiding Peeping Toms in a new place.

Charlie N. Holmberg

#2. There is something eminently Chilean about avoiding confrontation, or about not clarifying the way you feel sometimes. It's a particular culture, where emotions are not discussed as profusely with your family or friends, nor shown in an explicit manner.

Omar Zuniga

#3. She was no intellectual, but men were scrupulous about avoiding intellectual women unless they had the sense to keep it well hidden.

Margaret Way

#4. Whether by a Mack truck or by heart failure or faulty lungs, death happens. But life isn't really just about avoiding death, is it? It's about living.

Charity Sunshine Tillemann-Dick

#5. Some of us seem so anxious about avoiding hell that we forget to celebrate our journey toward heaven.

Philip Yancey

#6. Creativity isn't about avoiding frustration. It's about pushing through and coming out the other side.

Michele Jennae

#7. Will having a newborn distract from the time we have together?" she asked. "Don't you think saying goodbye to your child will make your death more painful?"

"Wouldn't it be great if it did?" I said. Lucy and I both felt that life wasn't about avoiding suffering.

Paul Kalanithi

#8. It's about avoiding reality through various escape routes that become addictions and lead to Hell. My character is addicted to television, chocolate, coffee, to her dream of her son, which has no basis in reality.

Ellen Burstyn

#9. I can be a little obsessive about avoiding colds and flu. Thera Zinc Echinacea lozenges are awesome, and I almost always have some with me.

Murray Bartlett

#10. The man who avoids debt doesn't have to worry about avoiding his creditors.

Evan Esar

#11. Do not worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older it will avoid you.

Joey Adams

#12. Postural exercises such as yoga, Pilates, Egoscues, Alexander technique and martial arts are about avoiding pain and injury as much as helping you feel good. Attractive men and women have good posture.

Liz Miller

#13. If policymakers are serious about avoiding a society of TV 'haves and have-nots,' they should refrain from policies that favor pay-TV operators over the providers of our nation's only free and local communications system: over-the-air broadcasting.

Gordon Smith

#14. Life is not about avoiding fear but about overcoming fear.

Debasish Mridha

#15. Maturity meant thinking about risk long before you pondered the reward, and that success and happiness in life were as much about avoiding mistakes as making your mark into the world.

Nicholas Sparks

#16. I'm not concerned about avoiding anything that happened three years ago or worried about letdowns or things of that nature. When you use the term 'letdown' you proceed with the assumption that this is a continuation of something that happened in the past.

Mike Tomlin

#17. 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.

Epictetus

#18. I avoid talking about the way I work. But in avoiding it I seem only to have encouraged people to focus their fantasies about me in an ever more fantastical way.

Daniel Day-Lewis

#19. Child abuse is one of those issues that's very difficult to talk about because it's surrounded by guilt and shame and so on, but us avoiding that issue doesn't help those kids in need out there who need support.

Chris Hemsworth

#20. 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.

Saskya Pandita

#21. 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.

T. Colin Campbell

#22. Being a Christian is less about cautiously avoiding sin than about courageously and actively doing God's will.

Eric Metaxas

#23. 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.'

Tom Cruise

#24. If there's one lesson I've learned, it's that life is all about change, and stress comes from avoiding change.

Brad Thor

#25. I hung about the dangerous frontier of "guess," avoiding with infinite trouble to myself and others the broad valley of reason.

Helen Keller

#26. When you blame and criticize others, you are avoiding some truth about yourself.

Deepak Chopra

#27. It was starting to seem to her that being "forward-thinking" too often involved avoiding any kind of thought at all - especially about things that might benefit from a great deal of thinking.

Kristin Cashore

#28. Once you understand the power of stimulus control, you can use it to your advantage by changing the stimuli in your environment and avoiding undesirable ones; or, if that's not possible, by filling your consciousness with thoughts about their less tempting aspects.

Jonathan Haidt

#29. (talking about his children) I'm interested in avoiding two types of behaviour: one is the sense of guilt and the other is a sense of entitlement. If these two are avoided, then the rest is up to them.

John Elkann

#30. Avoiding sin isn't about us not getting in trouble; it is about us trusting that the Creator knows his creation best and has designed the world to work in a certain way.

Jefferson Bethke

#31. Gloria was still talking, something about how shooting people was in a sense safer than making art, in terms of avoiding serious lapses in taste.

Rachel Kushner

#32. 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.

M. Scott Peck

#33. Synergies are not only about cost reduction. Synergies can be access to markets, exchange of products, avoiding overlaps, exchange of best practices.

Carlos Ghosn

#34. Secret 7591.42.21. Avoiding weasel words in your intelligence analysis isn't easy when your intelligence analysis is about weasels.

The Covert Comic

#35. I wasn't fooled. He was avoiding looking at me. "There's nothing to talk about."
"I knew you'd say that. Actually, it was a toss-up between that and 'I don't know what you're talking about.'"
Dimitri sighed.

Richelle Mead

#36. I am much more aware of making the plot more original, avoiding contrivance, having the story matter much more. I used to think more about symbols consciously. Now I think much more about the story.

Dara Horn

#37. Carey was one of those appalling people who wake refreshed and ready for anything every morning about an hour before everyone else, and then bounce around whistling happily, avoiding death only because they move faster than the people who want to kill them.

P.F. Chisholm

#38. Practice mediation and concentration exercises, and begin to think more about regaining your sensitivity by avoiding draining situations. Not because of fear but because of intelligence.

Frederick Lenz

#39. Discipline is all about the imposition of control-the belief that, by following a precise regime and avoiding distractions, you can somehow keep the disorder of life at bay.

Douglas Kennedy

#40. I couldn't tell anyone how I felt. I had learned not to feel, or at least not to tell anyone about my feelings. It was a matter of survival, avoiding and enduring.

John E. Monaco

#41. There is nothing dishonorable about abandoning pain. Sometimes peace is most quickly found when a man simply stops avoiding it." He shifted slightly in the dark. "And you never again lay awake all night, staring at darkness and thinking of them.

Robin Hobb

#42. Part of avoiding thoughts about something was not encouraging opportunities for that something to makes itself felt.

Kristin Cashore

#43. I don't see anyone avoiding the Stones because DJs make jokes about them being a part of the Geritol set. All it does is make the DJs look stupid.

Joe Perry

#44. If there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy

Boethius

#45. Avoiding the phrase 'I don't have time ... ', will soon help you to realize that you do have the time needed for just about anything you choose to accomplish in life.

Bo Bennett

#46. Whether you are trying to finish a race or a book or that hard conversation you've been avoiding, the training leading up to that event is what makes it possible to face the fear & walk forward anyway. Quit complaining about discipline & start seeing it as a powerful tool for courageous living.

Annie F. Downs

#47. Life is a series of avoiding horrible situations until ultimately you're dead. That's how I feel about things.

Eli Roth

#48. Incidentally, I have also learned a bit about the importance of avoiding feminine embarrassment ('Daddy,' wrote Sophia when she enrolled at the New School where I teach, 'people will ask "why is old Christopher Hitchens kissing that girl?"') and shall now cease and desist.

Christopher Hitchens

#49. We avoid the things that we're afraid of because we think there will be dire consequences if we confront them. But the truly dire consequences in our lives come from avoiding things that we need to learn about or discover.

Shakti Gawain

#50. In my early 30s, I started to realise I was avoiding something on a personal level, but also as a writer. I was in denial about who I was, and was trying to be someone who I was not.

Ayad Akhtar

#51. I wouldn't care about hurting myself or anybody else. Because I know now that doing things doesn't hurt you; you get hurt by avoiding them

Irvine Welsh

#52. There's no doubt about it, being a policeman warps a man's mind and ruins that sunny faith in his fellow human beings which is the foundation of a lovable character. There seems to be no way of avoiding this.

P.G. Wodehouse

#53. It's amazing how our brains can create all kinds of ways of avoiding the truth. Especially when there's something you just don't want to face about yourself, or someone you love. We never get tired of running from ourselves. Never get tired of making excuses.

Jeff Lemire

#54. It's all about being flexible, and avoiding choices whenever possible. Choices suck, they are inherently limiting.

Craig Armstrong

#55. It's all well and good saying you avoid pain by avoiding relationships, but what about the wonderful things you're avoiding as well? What about the joy and the intimacy and the trust that come with finding someone you love?

Jane Green

#56. 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.

Ludwig Von Mises

#57. But I have been avoiding talking about what I'm doing now because it's frustrating for people to hear about things that aren't available yet.

John Frusciante

#58. If you think about a young child trying to learn to walk, that child will fall down and hurt itself hundreds of times. But at no point does that child ever stop and think, "Oh, I guess walking just isn't for me. I'm not good at it." Avoiding

Mark Manson

#59. We find no sense in talking about something unless we specify how we measure it; a definition by the method of measuring a quantity is the one sure way of avoiding talking nonsense ...

Hermann Bondi

#60. If we imagine that God is somehow punishing us, then we will live our lives in desperation and in fear that we are somehow avoiding displeasing God. The difficulty with that is as many ideas about how to displease and how to please God, as there are hairs on your head.

Neale Donald Walsch

#61. 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)

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#62. There is no avoiding the fact that we live at the mercy of our ideas This is never more true than with our ideas about God.

Dallas Willard