Avoid Situations Quotes

#1. You've got to avoid situations that make you uncomfortable.

Nick Jonas

#2. 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.

Leon Festinger

#3. A superior pilot uses his superior judgment to avoid situations which require the use of his superior skill.

Frank Borman

#4. Do not seek power for revenge. Seek power in order to avoid situations that would make you want revenge.

Salla Simukka

#5. Writing time is for writing, not for checking e-mail, reading the news, or browsing the latest issues of journals. Sometimes I think it would be nice to download articles while writing, but I can do that at the office. The best kind of self-control is to avoid situations that require self-control.

Paul J. Silvia

#6. To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.

Peter McWilliams

#7. Sometimes, when it seems like the pain is never going to end, I wish I'd gotten a different suite of magical talents from my mother. Like the power to avoid situations that end with me willingly jamming my arm into a door made entirely from animate, apparently angry rose briars.

Seanan McGuire

#8. Unhappy endings are just as important as happy endings. They're an efficient way of transmitting vital Darwinian information. Your brain needs them to make maps of the world, maps that let you know what sorts of people and situations to avoid.

Douglas Coupland

#9. The past shouldn't be forgotten. It should be used as a guide for future situations and not used as a reason to avoid making difficult decisions. There was always a choice.

Maria V. Snyder

#10. I know the different ways that I have lost. I think that's beneficial to me because I know how I got in those situations in the past, and I know how to avoid those situations.

Michelle Waterson

#11. Everyone wants to learn the same thing from painful situations: how to avoid repeating them.

Gary Zukav

#12. My problem with country music is that I try to avoid the very situations the lyrics lament.

Sue Grafton

#13. To be comforted by God is a promise that few of us ever receive, because we are consumed with controlling our situations to avoid being vulnerable.

E'yen A. Gardner

#14. It's not like I can change any of it now. I can only use the experience to avoid such situations in the future.

Paige Winship Dooly

#15. Although you may not always be able to avoid difficult situations,you can modify the extent to which you can suffer by how you choose to respond to the situation.

Dalai Lama XIV

#16. do not use this argument to avoid trying to learn from history. All I am saying is that it is not so simple; be suspicious of the "because" and handle it with care - particularly in situations where you suspect silent evidence.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#17. Bravery is the ability to endure, even unto death, all types of terrible, terrifying and painful situations and we live in a time when people do all that they can to avoid hardship and pain, never realizing that strength and courage is found in both.

Donna Lynn Hope

#18. We tend to run our whole life trying to avoid all that hurts or displeases us, noticing the objects, people, or situations that we think will give us pain or pleasure, avoiding one and pursuing the other.

Charlotte Joko Beck

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Sebastian Saez

#20. Whenever you avoid alarming situations, you almost always increase your anxiety about them.

Albert Ellis

#21. It is pointless to get your knickers in a twist if a certain person fails to react the way you want. It is best to avoid people and situations that you know drive you crazy. Remember to vote with your feet. If a situation is untenable or unchangeable, walk away.

Stuart Wilde

#22. People rarely want to kill, David. It's not the basic makeup of the healthy human mind. In most situations they will go to great lengths to avoid killing. Remember that, and it will help you.

Brandon Sanderson

#23. Don't do cocaine. Don't race trains. And avoid AIDS situations.

Charlie Munger

#24. Taking the leap involves making a commitment to ourselves and to the earth itself - making a commitment to let go of old grudges, to not avoid people and situations and emotions that make us feel uneasy, to not cling to our fears,

Pema Chodron

#25. To failure. Playing it safe requires that we avoid risky situations - which covers pretty much all of life.

Tara Brach

#26. The character doesn't even come out until people are tested and be put in extreme situations and most people spend their lives trying to avoid those kinds of situations.

Caprice Crane

#27. The best we can do is a compromise: learn to recognize situations in which mistakes are likely and try harder to avoid significant mistakes when the stakes are high.

Daniel Kahneman

#28. I tend to avoid writing music about initial reactions to situations, like frustration or anger. I'd rather wait till I go through the problem, and write about the learning that took place.

Yanni

#29. I've been through a lot of situations with women and if I can help someone else avoid the pitfalls that I've gone through then I'm happy to help.

Mayer Hawthorne

#30. Self-love is almost always the ruling principle of our friendships. It makes us avoid all our obligations in unprofitable situations, and even causes us to forget our hostility towards our enemies when they become powerful enough to help us achieve fame or fortune.

Madeleine De Souvre, Marquise De ...