Quotes About Avoiding Conflict

#1. As I was to learn, avoiding conflict causes conflict to seek you out.

Gloria Steinem

#2. I don't think avoiding conflict is not caring.

~Shin

Ai Yazawa

#3. In the beginning the queen had been a courageous and fair-minded princess very much liked by all, but unfortunately she grew up and became a frightened adult, as adults tend to be. She started loving efficiency and avoiding conflict. As adults do.

Fredrik Backman

#4. People now, especially with the Internet, are connected. They have an expectation of behaviour, of accountability, avoiding conflict and fair and just competition.

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

#5. Flexibility is an essential pre-requisite to avoiding conflict.

Kambiz Mostofizadeh

#6. I really have been lucky because I've always had a very healthy attitude to my body.

Lily James

#7. The thing that makes a creative person is to be creative and that is all there is to it.

Edward Albee

#8. If you don't have a sense of humor, you'll hurt yourself arguing with me.

Ted Nugent

#9. There is a magic formula for resolving conflicts. It is this: Have as your objective the resolving of the conflict, not the gaining of advantage. There is a magic formula for avoiding conflicts. It is this: Be concerned that you do not offend, not that you are not offended.

Peace Pilgrim

#10. Drama lives on conflict. If you're trying to deal with social issues seriously, there's no way of avoiding violence, which is so present in society.

Michael Haneke

#11. The essence of Capablanca's greatness is his rare talent for avoiding all that can complicate or confuse the conflict.

Max Euwe

#12. Many people who talk about the discovery method of teaching are really talking about arranging a lesson or an experiment so that students discover what they are supposed to discover. That is not an exploration. The whole tradition of exploration is being lost for entire generations.

Frank Oppenheimer

#13. I try to find the core values that are so fundamental that they transcend ethnic identity. That doesn't mean I run from it. I embrace African-American culture and I love it and embrace it, but it is a part of a human identity. So I'm always trying to make a larger human statement.

Wynton Marsalis

#14. One of the biggest challenge in life is to see things for what they are instead of what you want them to be.

Saahil Prem

#15. 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

#16. Even with the desire for a better life, we can be reluctant to do the work of boundaries because it will be a war. The battle falls into two categories: outside resistance we get from others and the resistance we get from ourselves.

Henry Cloud