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Quotes About Avoidance

One finds one's destiny on the path one takes to avoid it.
~ Carl Jung
To counter the avoidance of intellectual challenge and responsibility, we must reduce the domination of certainty in education.
~ William Glasser
Some people would rather die than think.
~ Bertrand Russell
If somebody tells me to work or exercise, I go the other way. I'll come up with an excuse.
~ John Prine
I'm lazy and I do procrastinate about laundry!
~ Emily Hampshire
Lightning is something which, again, we would rather avoid.
~ Richard Branson
I don't like going to the mall.
~ Smokepurpp
Of course you hate getting angry!" she retorted. "You don't like anything unpleasant, do you? You're a slitherer-outer, that's what you are! You slither away from anything you don't like!
~ Diana Wynne Jones
He lied about that. He didn't want to annoy you. He's a slitherer-outer, if you know what I mean, Your Majesty.
~ Diana Wynne Jones
You don't like anything unpleasant, do you? You're a slitherer-outer, that's what you are! You slither away from anything you don't like!
~ Diana Wynne Jones
She could not read a book for fear of the feelings she might find in it.
~ Diane Setterfield
So traumatic is the idea of jumping out of a window [of a burning building] that it is easier to pretend the fire will never reach us. It is the same with death: we know it is approaching, but we act as if it is never going to come. The vast majority of us, especially here in the west, construct our lives based on the denial of death.
~ Dinesh D'Souza
Those are serious questions. Let me avoid them as best I can.
~ Dinty W. Moore
What pain are you helping customers avoid? What pain are they currently dealing with that will be ended if they buy your products or service? Some examples are:
~ Donald Miller
What pain or problems are you helping your customers avoid? List the pain points and challenges you resolve in the section below:
~ Donald Miller
Hard to put things right. You don't often get that chance. Sometimes all you can do is not get caught.
~ Donna Tartt
Every time I thought of it my stomach squirmed, so that my first instinct was to slam the lid down hard and think of something else.
~ Donna Tartt
to take steps to avoid
~ Unknown
I try not to watch the news. Too depressing.
~ J.A. Konrath
He that would be safe from the acts of evil, must widely avoid the occasions.
~ J.C. Ryle
I don't want to get involved" has become our national motto. -Mike McIntyre
~ Jack Canfield
I would turn on the TV, but its so embarassing.
~ Jack Johnson
When we let ourselves feel the fear, the discontent, the difficulties we have always avoided, our heart softens. Just as it is a courageous act to face all the difficulties from which we have always run, it is also an act of compassion.
~ Jack Kornfield
Animals are luckier; they can bury their heads in sand, hide under their coats, pretend to have no head at all.
~ Jackie Kay