Quotes About Avoidant

#1. Because conflict-avoidant Emily would never "bite" or even hiss unless Greg had done something truly horrible, on some level she processes his bite to mean that she's terribly guilty - of something, anything, who knows what?

Susan Cain

#2. I am far more distress-avoidant than I am joy-seeking.

Malcolm Gladwell

#3. Parts of you are phobic of anger and generally terrified and ashamed of angry dissociative parts. There is often tremendous conflict between anger-avoidant and anger-fixated parts of an individual. Thus, an internal and perpetual cycle of rage-shame-fear creates inner chaos and pain.

Suzette Boon

#4. Susan, who has an avoidant attachment style, ... sees need as a weakness and looks down on people who become dependent on their partner,

Amir Levine

#5. Narcissism falls along the axis of what psychologists call personality disorders, one of a group that includes antisocial, dependent, histrionic, avoidant and borderline personalities. But by most measures, narcissism is one of the worst, if only because the narcissists themselves are so clueless.

Jeffrey Kluger

#6. The choice to avoid risk is the choice to avoid living, and to avoid living is one of the greatest risk of all.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#7. Geopolitics is all about leverage. We cannot make ourselves safer abroad unless we change our behavior at home.

Thomas Friedman

#8. We are peculiar people called to fulfill a great mission.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#9. The difference between communism and socialism is that under socialism central planning ends with a gun in your face, whereas under communism central planning begins with a gun in your face.

Kevin D. Williamson

#10. Successful entrepreneurs don't wait for the perfect moment - they create it

Richard Branson

#11. However, sexual anorexics do have a definite profile that separates them from the larger population of those having difficulty being sexual: They are often extremely competent people who are committed to doing things very well and have a fear of making mistakes and being human.

Patrick J. Carnes

#12. I remember that I stood on the library steps holding my books and looking for a minute at the soft hinted green in the branches against the sky and wishing, as I always did, that I could walk home across the sky instead of through the village.

Shirley Jackson

#13. I walked home past the glass whiskers of the houses, reflecting the downward rushing waterfalls of night.

Richard Brautigan

#14. I have enjoyed all the artists I've worked with.

Adrian Belew

#15. There are wonderful things in Jazz, the improvisation, the liveliness, the being at one with the audience.

Henri Matisse

#16. I was an accomplice in my own frustration.

Peter Shaffer