Quotes About Avoidance

If you want to get away from someone, check your watch and say, "Sorry, gotta go!

Like many lazy people, once I started work I could not stop; perhaps that is why we avoid it.

You're just the same, David. You don't like talking about anything unpleasant." " Who does! " I exclaimed. " But it's like an ostrich, burying its head in the sand! " " Not really," I said thoughtfully. " It's better to be happy and think of nice things instead of being miserable and worrying over nasty things.

A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues.

I say this respectfully, but there always appears to be a reason for guys like Robert Guerrero, Victor Ortiz and some others to avoid me.

I went to Kent State basically to avoid going to Vietnam, I had no idea what I was doing in the world. I was lost, and trying not to get into a fight every day.

George W. had a plan. He arranged to join the Air National Guard in Texas, which meant he would not be sent to Vietnam.

Majored in staying out of Vietnam.

What is astonishing about the social history of the Vietnam war is not how many people avoided it, but how many could not and did not.

As with so many other aspects of our lives, we were never prepared for trouble. We just tried like hell to get out of the way when it came.

Sophia," he said softly. "Come here." She ignored the command and fled, her high-pitched voice floating behind her. "I'll return soon..." Despite his acute frustration, Ross could not prevent a rumble of moody laughter in his chest. "Go, then," he said, dropping his head back on the pillow. "You can't avoid me forever.

I really think you should go out, Walter." "No, thank you. I don't like it there.

I've avoided the auction houses to stay out of the spotlight, but no more. We have to pay the bills.

My family's big on denial. And if we denied something long enough, we thought it'd go away. I know that's not how it works, but we're in denial about that, too.

To avoid contact with someone so as not to have to address the truth is a form of lying by omission, regardless of good intentions.

We as human beings do this thing where we stuff down our feelings until they find a way to manifest themselves. We try to avoid them until there's no more room and they come bubbling up like a pot of boiling-hot water that overflows. And when it does, it burns.

I say, when Mercury arrives, we just pretend we're not here." Lawe tipped back his whiskey and swallowed in a single drink. "Stay real quiet. Don't make eye contact." They all nodded.

People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls.

Carl Jung said, "People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls.

Había aprendido a evitar la tentación porque dudada de tener la fuerza necesaria para resistirla. Dejar que la curiosidad se transformara en fascinación sería el primer paso hacia la ruina

Avoidance is a simple way of coping by not having to cope.

Sometimes "drama," no matter how unpleasant, can be a form of self-medication, a way to calm ourselves down by avoiding the crises brewing inside.

I point out to her that pain can be protective; staying in a depressed place can be a form of avoidance. Safe inside her shell of pain, she doesn't have to face anything, nor does she have to emerge into the world, where she might get hurt again.

The eminent Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung said this: "People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own souls." But he also said this: "Who looks inside, awakes.