Top 27 Work Avoidance Quotes
#1. I write at a standing desk, which has helped me be much more productive and solved some back problems, but mostly all my quirky habits have to do with procrastination and avoidance rather than with work. I'm slowly trying to stamp those out.
Paolo Bacigalupi
#2. 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
#3. Attachment to praise and avoidance of criticism keeps us from doing innovative, controversial work and--more simply--from following the paths we feel called toward, whether or not those around s understand or approve.
Tara Mohr
#4. I've succeeded, I guess, but sometimes maybe to succeed is to fail
John Marsden
#5. So long as I keep nodding and smiling at the appropriate times, I can avoid further questions.
Fennel Hudson
#6. Shame often causes me to hide my mistakes from others. But really, when I make a mistake, I should make it loud and clear, so I can see that it didn't work as a strategy, and be able to make a course correction, either by myself or with the help of others.
Sharon Weil
#7. My own feeling is that one should refuse to participate in any activity that implements American aggression - thus tax refusal, draft refusal, avoidance of work that can be used by the agencies of militarism and repression, all seem to me essential.
Noam Chomsky
#8. I read that MTV's Real World got 40,000 applications. That's amazing, such an even number. You would have thought it would be 40,008.
Mitch Hedberg
#9. Landsman has put a lot of work into the avoidance of having to understand concepts like that of the eruv, but he knows that it's a typical Jewish ritual dodge, a scam run on God, that controlling motherfucker.
Michael Chabon
#10. It is often better to have a great deal of harm happen to one than a little; a great deal may rouse you to remove what a little will only accustom you to endure.
Grenville Kleiser
#11. By the time they had diminished from 50 to 8, the other dwarves began to suspect 'Hungry' ...
Gary Larson
#13. If you don't share your stories with other people. do they even count? If you don't share your stories, do they even need an ending? I know, it's that stupid if a tree falls in the forest sort of question, but I mean it.
Aaron Starmer
#14. Life is ruthless, and its bestowal of fortune arbitrary and capricious. I'd been born to morons, and mine was a shabby life.
M. J. Hyland
#15. Laws of silence don't work ... . When something is festering in your memory or your imagination, laws of silence don't work, it's just like shutting a door and locking it on a house on fire in hope of forgetting that the house is burning. But not facing a fire doesn't put it out.
Tennessee Williams
#16. If you do not raise your eyes you will think you are the highest point.
Antonio Porchia
#18. Creative avoidance is the type of procrastination that affects home business entrepreneurs the most. It is unconsciously filling our day with trivial, unimportant work.
Rory Vaden
#19. Despite men's suffering, despite the blood and wrath, despite the dead who can never be replaced, the unjust wounds, and the wild bullets, we must utter, not words of regret, but words of hope, of the dreadful hope of men isolated with their fate.
Albert Camus
#20. It's hard to love a place that's outlawed smoking but finds it perfectly acceptable to serve raw fish in a bath of chocolate.
David Sedaris
#22. The whole idea that vehicles in the future will communicate with each other is a really big deal. It's a big deal for safety ... and it's an opportunity to engage the automobile in the work of ensuring collision avoidance.
Anthony Foxx
#23. In the greatest art, one is always aware of things that cannot be said ... of the contradiction between expression and the presence of the inexpressible. Stylistic devices are also techniques of avoidance. The most potent elements of a work of art are, often, its silences.
Susan Sontag
#24. Since any effort always translates into more learning about a particular subject, we logically believe that we can determine our success in a linear fashion, but this doesn't happen because our self-image always filters our perception of reality.
Robin Sacredfire
#25. Avoidance therapy does not work. One major reason for that is because Avoidance Therapy (diversion, think yourself happy, positive affirmations) is predicated on the validity of 'Failure of Will.' Depression is not a choice.
Northern Adams
#26. Thousands of hopeful days came to naught before this one. This was a golden day. Never give up.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#27. In our line of work the more humiliated a person is, the more viral the story tends to go. Shame can factor large in the life of a journalist - the personal avoidance of it and the professional bestowing of it onto others.
Jon Ronson
