Quotes About Avoiding

The young real estate agent in the driver's seat lifted one perfectly plucked eyebrow in my direction as she steered her Geo smoothly into the street gutter. I could not blame her for avoiding the crumbling driveway, whose variously

O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called.

Success involves avoiding the lure of making excuses.

It is by avoiding the rapid decay into the inert state of 'equilibrium' that an organism appears so enigmatic."* The

It's crucial to go further than simply concluding that a student's concerning behaviors are working at getting them something they want (for example, attention) and escaping and avoiding tasks and situations that are difficult, uncomfortable, tedious, or scary. A good functional assessment needs to explain why a student is going about getting, escaping, and avoiding in such a maladaptive fashion (lagging skills) and when that is occurring (unsolved problems).

Every time you find yourself following the manual instead of writing the manual, you're avoiding the anguish and giving in to the resistance.

We push time from us, and we wish him back; * * * * * * Life we think long and short; death seek and shun.

I'm really not up for answering any questions that start with how, when, where, why or what.

Etiquette can be at the same time a means of approaching people and of staying clear of them.

Hobbs dominating the conversation with so long a catalogue of his woes that Jack fell behind to avoid having to listen.

There seemed no particular object in avoiding banality from the start, as the evening showed every sign of developing into a banal one.

Christmas shopping! I can do all my Christmas shopping here! I know March is a bit early, but why not be organized? And then when Christmas arrives I won't have to go near the horrible Christmas crowds.

States are looking for low-cost solutions that will enable better communication, while avoiding the danger in which the chain of command breaks down in emergencies. We do not want everyone talking to everyone else all the time.

When are you going to admit that you are avoiding me because you're hot for me?" "When hell freezes over." Trevor-Raven

crashes are not randomly occurring lightning bolts; they are the consequence of the madness of crowds who are busy avoiding the last mania as they participate in what will turn out to be the current one.

The process of determining if the misbehavior was getting something the student wanted or was avoiding something he didn't want is called functional behavioral assessment or analysis (FBA).

There is little anyone can do with fanatics. Reasoning with them is a fool's errand. Avoiding them is mandatory.

I'm not avoiding the Tamil film industry because I'm making Hindi films. It's just that I'm extremely busy with Bollywood commitments.

It is not difficult to deduce from an individual's position the kind of childhood he must have had. Unless something or somebody intervenes, he spends the rest of his life stabilizing his position and dealing with situations that threaten it: by avoiding them, warding off certain elements or manipulating them provocatively so that they are transformed from threats into justifications.

Emotions—sexuality, aggression, pleasure, fear, and pain—are instinctive processes. They color our lives and help us confront the fundamental challenges of avoiding pain and seeking pleasure. We

We didn't bother to handcuff him, which surprised Agent Reynolds. Kittredge told her it was Metropolitan Police policy to avoid handcuffing suspects unless physical restraint is necessary—thus avoiding the risk of chafing, positional asphyxiation, and injury sustained by falling over your own feet and smacking your face into the pavement.

I feared at the time that avoiding the firm's failure might only delay the inevitable. Today

There was no avoiding the fact that we were going to hit our debt ceiling.

She was more astute than I at seeing the distant cloud of a quarrel when it was still no bigger than a man's hand, and she would usually take the right avoiding action, for when an embrace was over the quarrel was usually over too—for that occasion at least.