Quotes About Avoiding

#1. If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding worry, stress and tension. And if you didn't ask me, I'd still have to say it.

George Burns

#2. Herr Schroder has conducted two electoral campaigns, and he is doing it again now, by not telling people what is really necessary. He keeps avoiding the difficult and uncomfortable issues, those that imply changes and therefore provoke discussions.

Angela Merkel

#3. I'm sounding out the silence, avoiding all the words.

Ani DiFranco

#4. You can't find peace by avoiding life.

Michael Cunningham

#5. The negro has maintained his racial purity by his well known habit of
avoiding baths

Che Guevara

#6. All acts of living become bad by ten things, and by avoiding the ten things they become good. There are three evils of the body, four evils of the tongue, and three evils of the mind.

Gautama Buddha

#7. It turns out that when there is some conspicuous gap or contradiction at the center of someone's existence, there is probably a very specific, obvious reason for it, and the reason you're avoiding confronting it directly is that it's something you don't want to know.

Tim Kreider

#8. Fewer people are bent from hard work than are crooked from avoiding it.

Zig Ziglar

#9. There's no such thing as writer's block," she proclaimed. "If you can't write it's because you don't have anything to say. Or you're avoiding something.

Candace Bushnell

#10. It is a tragic and agonizing irony that instructions once delivered for the purpose of avoiding needless offense are now invoked in ways that needlessly offend, that words once meant to help draw people to the gospel now repel them.

Rachel Held Evans

#11. One should not seek happiness, just nurture the spirit of joy as the basis of summoning happiness. One should not try to escape misfortune, just get rid of viciousness as a means of avoiding misfortune.

Zicheng Hong

#12. With some exceptions in science fiction and other genres I have small difficulty in avoiding anything that could be called American literature. I feel it is unnatural, not I think entirely because it uses a language that is not mine, however closely akin to my own.

Kingsley Amis

#13. Love was like a steamroller. There was no avoiding it, it went over you and you came out flat.

Margaret Atwood

#14. When the world started ending, everybody became a convert and wanted nothing more than to spout the virtues of whatever apocalyptic religion they had latched onto. I wasn't sure who, if any, of them were right, but my best bet for avoiding hell was avoiding death.

Amanda Hocking

#15. The best way to achieve surprise quality is by avoiding cliches.

Alexey Brodovitch

#16. Much sheer effort goes into avoiding the truth; left to itself, it sweeps in like the tide.

Fay Weldon

#17. He had sought to equip himself with the tools of artistry. On the other hand, he had not sacrificed strength. His conscious aim had been to increase his strength by avoiding excess of strength. Nor

Jack London

#18. Talk of revolution is one of avoiding reality.

John Kenneth Galbraith

#19. Everybody certainly has the right to defend themselves. That's not to say that they should defy common sense by avoiding or diffusing confrontation. And that's very, very important.

Steven Seagal

#20. One day I looked at something in myself that I had been avoiding because it was too painful. Yet once I did, I had an unexpected surprise. Rather than self-hatred, I was flooded with compassion for myself because I realized the pain necessary to develop that coping mechanism to begin with.

Marianne Williamson

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

Carlos Ghosn

#22. 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

#23. A creative writer must study carefully the works of his rivals, including the Almighty. He must possess the inborn capacity not only of recombining but of re-creating the given world. In order to do this adequately, avoiding duplication of labor, the artist should know the given world.

Vladimir Nabokov

#24. 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

#25. Godzilla. The big, green G-man has had a profound influence on my creative endeavors and imagination since I was blueberry-avoiding kid.

Jeremy Robinson

#26. There are a number of paths that lead to this place. I have been avoiding them for some small time, now.

Neil Gaiman

#27. He opened his mouth to say that she looked extremely beautiful and deserved armfuls of roses, but the words were lost in committee somewhere, shuffled aside by the parts of his head that worked full-time at avoiding ridicule.

Helen Simonson

#28. Of the sparkling wines, the most famous is Perth Pink. This is a bottle with a message in, and the message is "beware". This is not a wine for drinking; this is a wine for laying down and avoiding.

Eric Idle

#29. Doing mistakes is as much a part of life as avoiding them. You may not get a second chance to do the same mistake, so, go on, give it a shot.

Manoj Arora

#30. I am desperately seeking love, but also desperately avoiding it

Frances Ivy

#31. Resilience isn't cultivated by avoiding stress, you see, but by learning how to tame and master it.

Jessica Joelle Alexander

#32. You pretty much have to be bad at it [stand-up] for several years to get good at it, so there's no avoiding embarrassing yourself.

W. Kamau Bell

#33. 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

#34. (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

#35. 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

#36. Thinking too much leads to paralysis by analysis. It's important to think things through, but many use thinking as a means of avoiding action.

Robert Herjavec

#37. Avoiding our fears is the #1 reason we stay trapped in old routines, boring jobs, unhealthy habits, dying relationships, and hang onto bad behaviors that get worse the older we get.

Scott Allan

#38. It is easier for one to take risks and to chase his dreams with a mindset that he has nothing to lose. In this lies the immense passion, the great advantage of avoiding a materialistic, pleasure-filled way of life.

Criss Jami

#39. Procrastinating, fighting and avoiding will only make it more difficult. The way out is to get it done.

Ralph Marston

#40. 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

#41. Social media requires that business leaders start thinking like small-town shop owners. This means taking the long view and avoiding short-term benchmarks to gauge progress. It means allowing the personality, heart and soul of the people who run all levels of the business to show.

Gary Vaynerchuk

#42. As the weather improved, the bobms got worse. The newspapers said that the Kaiser was aiming to knock London down (although avoiding Buckingham Palace, so as not to hit his relations).

Kate Williams

#43. 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

#44. 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

#45. When you are avoiding your pain you are really only avoiding your growth.

Bryant McGill

#46. Avoiding things that drain you is more important than gaining energy.

Frederick Lenz

#47. If she could only find a well-educated, Shakespeare-quoting bad boy who still had a thing for sexy tatoos and maybe a mild leather fetish, she might at least have a shot at avoiding her probable future as a crazy old cat lady.

Kendra Leigh Castle

#48. 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

#49. A day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do.

Bill Watterson

#50. The secret of a successful relationship is avoiding the unforgivable and forgiving the unavoidable.

Mardy Grothe

#51. We must not put pressure on people, but by providing information on the population and the environments, and appropriate contraception for everyone ... doctors should help bring family size into the arena of environmental ethics, analogous to avoiding patio heaters and high carbon cars.

John Guillebaud

#52. The ambition of instantaneous photography ... was that of preserving the spontaneity of action and avoiding any indication that the presence of the picture taker had a modifying influence on what was going on.

Rudolf Arnheim

#53. Your true self is beyond either relying on others or avoiding them in order to know who you are.

Kosho Uchiyama

#54. Trying to rely on the sheer good luck of avoiding bad outcomes indefinitely would simply guarantee that we would eventually fail without the means of recovering.

David Deutsch

#55. Engineering is achieving function while avoiding failure.

Henry Petroski

#56. 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

#57. And still Eden was avoiding him like he was a Bieber fan at a Korn concert.

Samantha Young

#58. This pain you are avoiding is a very necessary pain that will make you strong again.

Stephen Richards

#59. I tend to eat vegetables only when I'm with the kids and the rest of the time, I'm a bit slack. But, I am weight-conscious, so I concentrate on avoiding junk food.

Daley Thompson

#60. Medicine, which I wouldn't be without, has also been a force for ... less good. For example, if you look at our mishandling of the immune system, using antibiotics in children and avoiding infection, we've certainly increased the risk of asthma.

Robert Winston

#61. What is called a high standard of living consists, in considerable measure, in arrangements for avoiding muscular energy, for increasing sensual pleasure and enhancing caloric intake above any conceivable nutritional requirement.

John Kenneth Galbraith

#62. Sometimes war is necessary to teach us the value of peace. Sometimes you need to learn the real value of diplomacy in avoiding war. And I'd rather my students learned those lessons on the playground than on the battlefield.

Neil Gaiman

#63. Emotional intelligence does not mean merely "being nice". At strategic moment it may demand not "being nice", but rather, for example, bluntly confronting someone with an uncomfortable but consequential truth they've been avoiding.

Daniel Goleman

#64. Be cold, sober, wise, circumspect. Keep yourself low by the ground avoiding high questions. Expound the Law truly and open the veil of Moses to condemn all flesh and prove all men sinners, and set at broach the mercy of our Lord Jesus, and let wounded consciences drink of Him.

William Tyndale

#65. Travelling', she sighed.'So predictable.'
'What's wrong with travelling?'
'Avoiding reality more like.'
'I think reality is over-rated,' he said in the hope that this might come across as dark and charismatic.

David Nicholls

#66. While she'd been drying her hair, she'd come up with a new message for her answering machine - "I'm out, deliberately avoiding your call" - and that simple burst of creativity had raised her spirits a bit.

Carrie Fisher

#67. You don't find light by avoiding the darkness.

S. Kelley Harrell

#68. 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

#69. I'm disappearing, avoiding most things.

Syd Barrett

#70. Derrick, Samantha, and Michael were all very good at avoiding being murdered. Nanny Piggins considered this to be one of the most important life skills.

R.A. Spratt

#71. Isolate any resistance by avoiding any direct confrontation.

Steven Redhead

#72. I tried to be really healthy and eat whole and organic as much as possible. I think that's the key to avoiding crazy weight gain.

Molly Sims

#73. They were simple, earnest people, those early Victorians, and had not yet learnt the trick of avoiding disturbing thoughts and sights.

Ford Madox Ford

#74. I went for years not finishing anything. Because, of course, when you finish something you can be judged ... I had poems which were re-written so many times I suspect it was just a way of avoiding sending them out.

Erica Jong

#75. Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.

Ayn Rand

#76. Life is too short to spend your time avoiding failure,

Michael Bloomberg

#77. Avoiding problems you need to face is avoiding life you need to live

Paulo Coelho

#78. If you saved yourself, you might also save those around you, those you loved. And since you would do anything in the world to save those you loved, you did anything in the world to save yourself. And because there was no choice, equally there was no possibility of avoiding moral corruption. -

Julian Barnes

#79. The iron arc of the avoiding journey Curves back upon my weakness at the end; Whether the faint light spark against my face Or in the dark my sight hide from my sight, Centre and circumference are both my weakness.

Stephen Spender

#80. I loved Midori. And I had probably known as much for a while. I had just been avoiding the conclusion for a very long time.

Haruki Murakami

#81. We're not ignoring the problem, not really. We're all aware it's there, even Bo. We see the edges of this new Bo, this Bo who's special, different. We're not ignoring it. We're just carefully, carefully avoiding it.

Beth Revis

#82. So I can understand the mad passion for travel books and their deceptiveness. They create the illusion of something which no longer exists but still should exist, if we were to have any hope of avoiding the overwhelming conclusion that the history of the past twenty thousand years is irrevocable.

Claude Levi-Strauss

#83. Aim for brevity while avoiding jargon.

Edsger Dijkstra

#84. The Hamas has taken the path of avoiding causing harm to Zionist interests outside of Palestine, not from weakness or lack of ability to do so, but because Hamas does not wish for further fronts to be opened against it around the world

Ahmed Yassin

#85. The leaders of the world face no greater task than that of avoiding nuclear war. While preserving the cause of freedom, we must seek abolition of war through programs of general and complete disarmament. The Test-Ban Treaty of 1963 represents a significant beginning in this immense undertaking.

Robert Kennedy

#86. Invention consists in avoiding the constructing of useless contraptions and in constructing the useful combinations which are in infinite minority.

Henri Poincare

#87. I am intentionally avoiding the standard term which, by the way, did not exist in Euler's time. One of the ugliest outgrowths of the "new math" was the premature introduction of technical terms.

George Polya

#88. We don't really communicate [ ... ]. We talk all right, talk in that strange language we've evolved for the purposes of avoiding communication. That non-language we've created. Perhaps it's a sign that civilisation is regressing. Something is anyway.

Irvine Welsh

#89. Long-distance relationships are another way of avoiding intimacy.

Danielle Steel

#90. I'd never been so mesmerized or captivated or drawn to any guy in my life. Heck, I'd been avoiding guys like the plague.

Priya Kanaparti

#91. Everyone is terrified of death, as we spend our whole lives avoiding it.

Kelly Zygmunt

#92. We've got great flexibility and a certain discipline in terms of not doing some foolish thing just to be active - discipline in avoiding just doing any damn thing just because you can't stand inactivity.

Charlie Munger

#93. At six
I lived in a graveyard full of dolls,
avoiding myself,
my body, the suspect
in its grotesque house.

Anne Sexton

#94. I think ... that I would rather recollect a life mis-spent on fragile things than spent avoiding moral debt.

Neil Gaiman

#95. Remember that light becomes evident in darkness. We do not create light by avoiding those who are captives of darkness; but we become light by illuminating the night. Remember that always.

C. JoyBell C.

#96. Avoiding me, Quen downed a swallow of wine. "Trent is a fine young man," he said, watching the remaining wine swirl.
"Yes ... " I drawled, cautiously. "If you can call a drug lord and outlawed-medicine manufacturer a fine young man.

Kim Harrison

#97. An educated child is better equipped to handle all the challenges of life, from finding work to avoiding diseases like HIV/AIDS.

Laura Bush

#98. Poetry is the most subtle of the literary arts, and students grow more ingenious by the year at avoiding it. If they can nip around Milton, duck under Blake and collapse gratefully into the arms of Jane Austen, a lot of them will.

Terry Eagleton

#99. Was slipping, and his face had gone as white as my own. He looked down again, avoiding my stricken gaze. "I suppose all I was wondering," he murmured, "was ... was he ... was he different from me?" I saw him bite his lip as though wishing the words unsaid, but it was far too late

Diana Gabaldon

#100. the art of life, mostly, the art of avoiding pain

Henri Cole