Quotes About Avoidance

as though you have to have him, run. He won't do you any good.

Ethics are so annoying. I avoid them on principle.

There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the real labor of thinking. —THOMAS EDISON

and embrace, instead, one man's lifelong belief that the obvious should be avoided at all costs while the marginal should be highlighted at all times.

People who are prone to anxiety are nearly always people-pleasers who fear conflict and negative feelings like anger. When you feel upset, you sweep

One of the less attractive aspects of human nature is our tendency to hate the people we haven't treated very well; it's much easier than accepting guilt. If we can convince ourselves that the people we betrayed or enslaved were subhuman monsters in the first place, then our guilt isn't nearly so black as we secretly know that it is. Humans are very, very good at shifting blame and avoiding guilt.

Refusing to talk about something wouldn't make it go away. If it was there, it was there, and no amount of verbal acrobatics could make it go away.

Do you ever plan to grow up, Veltan?" he asked. "Not if I can avoid it, no.

No matter how professional soldiers might be, an avoided battle was always good news.

It's like a fugue of evaded responsibility.

and while a couple of prorectors are feared, none of them is all that much respected, and they're avoided, and stick together with one another and keep to themselves and seem on the whole sad, with that grad-schoolish sense of arrested adolescence and reality-avoidance about them.

There's an old saying that applies to me: you can't lose a game if you don't play the game. (Act 1, scene 4)

God be wi' you. Let's meet as little as we can. Orlando: I do desire we may be better strangers.

Il dardo omicida che è stato scoccato Non ha toccato terra; è la via più sicura E' quella di evitarne la caduta. Dunque, a cavallo. Non indugiamo in leziosi congedi: Prendiamo il volo. C'è onore nella fuga Di chi abbandona il luogo in cui s'è estinta ogni pietà

Sin embargo, una guerra aplazada puede ser una guerra evitada.

In these lands you're a name to avoid, you're bound for defeat, you're a sign pointing out those who must be destroyed.   At

I love nature, I just don't want to get any of it on me.

Lo más importante en la vida es estar distraído. Hay que buscarse problemas lo suficientemente difíciles de resolver para evitar estar preocupados por los verdaderos problemas. Los problemas relacionados con el amor son bastante entretenidos. ¿Me querrá esa mujer? El amor es una forma de evitar pensar en la vida

I think what it boils down to, really, is that I hate reality

Why suffer the slings and arrows when I can just wet my nose, insert it into the light socket, and never have to deal with anxiety, heartache, or my mother's boiled chicken ever again?

When soldiers are sick or wounded, doctors can fix them up, but you've got to save them from falling ill in the first place.

if your fear becomes a wordless darkness that you avoid, perhaps even manage to forget, you open yourself to further attacks of fear because you never truly fought the opponent who defeated you.

For fear, real fear, such as shakes you to your foundation, such as you feel when you are brought face to face with your mortal end, nestles in your memory like a gangrene: it seeks to rot everything, even the words with which to speak of it. So you must fight hard to express it. You must fight hard to shine the light of words upon it. Because if you don't, if your fear becomes a wordless darkness that you avoid, perhaps even manage to forget, you open yourself to further

Procrastination is like a credit card it's a lot of fun until you get the bill.