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Quotes About Avoidance

Leftists always want to... circle around subjects... rather than addressing any subject directly.
~ Dave Sim
Dogs have the same ability and the same social skills to avoid conflicts as wolves have.
~ Unknown
When you step Out of Your Comfort Zone, it is important to stop stepping before you get into the Uncomfy Zone. Out of Your Comfort Zone feels new and exciting, and you're discovering aspects of yourself you never knew existed. The No-Go Zone is where you do things that make you feel worse (not better) about yourself, and where you make choices you might regret. Avoid the No-Go Zone at all costs.
~ Tyra Banks
Good seamanship is recovering from an incident at sea. Great seamanship is avoiding an incident at sea.
~ Unknown
The primary dues a writer or any artist pays is to remain sentient, and to forfeit the illusionary luxury of such anesthetics as avoidance, numbness, and denials.
~ Vanna Bonta
That's the worst of sorrow," I decided, with less surprise than I had accepted the same conclusion after Roland's death. "It's always a vicious circle. It makes one tense and hard and disagreeable, and this means that one repels and antagonises people, and then they dislike and avoid one--and that means more isolation and still more sorrow.
~ Vera Brittain
I wasn't heading toward a future I wanted as much as I was running away from one I didn't.
~ Unknown
The best way to cope with trouble is to stay out of it as much as possible.
~ Jack Nicklaus
You concentrate on what you are doing, to do the best job you can, to stay out of a serious situation. That's the way the X-1 was.
~ Chuck Yeager
The best advice I can give you about falling is to never land.
~ Chevy Chase
The best way to confront your fears it to stop avoiding the situation you're most afraid of.
~ David D. Burns
The best way to clean up a son's room is to close the door and pretend it's not part of the house.
~ Art Buchwald
The best way to avoid warfare is if no one shows up.
~ Justin Sane
The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall.
~ Denis Healey
(Waste = Loss): The first rule of business is to survive and the guiding principle of business economics is not the maximisation of profit, it is the avoidance of loss
~ Peter Drucker
When I'm writing in long hand, it just goes on and on and on. When I was in the saloon business, I would just greet people and talk to them and avoid taxes, and getting behind the bar. What else.
~ Malachy McCourt
If you know how to shoot, and are quite ready to shoot, the chances are that you won't have to shoot.
~ John J. Pershing
My strategy is not to give them a chance to hit me.
~ Royce Gracie
concessions to adversaries only end in self reproach, and the more strictly they are avoided the greater will be the chance of security.
~ Thucydides
we are all addicted to avoiding pain.
~ Pema Chodron
The law stated that those with property worth more than £20 a year were obliged to adopt the status of knights; but knighthood was an expensive business, with the cost of equipment alone, and many landowners were ready to pay a relatively large sum to avoid the honour.
~ Peter Ackroyd
A crisis that recurs a second time is a crisis that must not occur again.
~ Peter F. Drucker
People don't like the uncanny, and rather than look fully at something disturbing, they'll avoid it altogether.
~ Philip Pullman
How can we run away with you when it's us you've been running away from all this time?
~ David Gerrold