Quotes About Aversion

Aversion is a form of bondage. We are tied to what we hate or fear. That is why, in our lives, the same problem, the same danger or difficulty, will present itself over and over again in various prospects, as long as we continue to resist or run away from it instead of examining it and solving it.

He has a frightening aversion to text messaging in general. "It's a phone. It's for making calls, not for writing novels".

Distrust turns quickly to dislike.

He disgusted them the way a fat spider that you can't bring yourslef to crush in your own hand disgusts you.

No querían tocarlo; les inspiraba el mismo asco que una araña gorda a la que no se quiere aplastar con la mano.

And he wallowed in disgust and loathing, and his hair stood on end at the delicious horror.

Some very common foods and drinks are aversive. Few people enjoy, at first, coffee, beer, tobacco, or chili pepper. Pleasure from pain is uniquely human. No other animal willingly eats such foods when there are alternatives. Philosophers have often looked for the defining feature of humans—language, rationality, culture, and so on. I'd stick with this: Man is the only animal that likes Tabasco sauce.

One study found that nursing students who were especially prone to empathy spent less time providing care to patients and more time seeking out help from other hospital personnel, presumably because of how aversive they found it to deal with people who were suffering.

That is, he would have started over from the beginning to solve with, again, both p and q non-negative. This is totally unnecessary, however, as at no place in the solution to x3 + px = q did he ever actually use the non-negativity of p and q. That is, such assumptions have no importance, and were explicitly made simply because of an unwarranted aversion by early mathematicians to negative numbers. This

The best kind of self-control is to avoid situations that require self-control

Look away, look away, look away …

I don't know why I felt so closed and bitter and threatened by the things I did not like.