Quotes About Avoidance

Procrastination is probably my worst habit out of many. Especially when it comes to paperwork.

I don't like going out. I hate clubs. I hate being around too many people.

I operated on too many people who could have avoided surgery if they'd simply made healthier choices earlier in life.

I'm exceptionally email un-savvy, so to reply to my emails is like a torture. It's like literally, half of all my emails, I get my secretary to type out for me. And the personal ones, I avoid and just pick up the phone and call them.

That's the last thing on Earth you should think about... There's just a whole lot of things that aren't going to work for you. Figure out what they are and avoid them like the plague. And one of them is bitcoin... It is total insanity.

All that effort," he mused, "merely to avoid me. How gratifying.

That's what I'm trying to tell you. You're irresistible." "I am not." "I'm not happy about it. You really are the most irritating person I've ever met. I'd managed to avoid any women of any temptation whatsoever for four years—a very easy task in Pembrook Park. Things were going splendidly, I was right on track to die alone and unnoticed. And then …

If I pass a mirror, I turn away, I do not want to look at her, and she does not want to be seen.

again, again, unquestioned, not fully seen, not wanting to fully see.

Conflict is a form of intimacy, and he did not want to be close to anyone.

The problem is the puer ever anticipates loss, disappointment, and suffering—which they foresee at the end of every experience, so they cut themselves off at the beginning, retreating almost at once in order to protect themselves.

Compulsion precedes morality, indeed morality itself is compulsion for a time, to which one submits for the avoidance of pain.

No man ever properly calculates from time to time what it is his duty to avoid.

I was never a cokehead or anything like that. I always despised that drug. I thought it was a waste of time, pointless.

I hid the homework, stayed in the bathroom for the longest time trying to cut class - I was a wreck as a kid.

There's not much that I can find in places where there is nothing to find. However, to avoid facing God I find myself spending a lot of time in those very places.

She did not want it. She did not want all this again. How she wished he had not come.

He would be the very last person she would want to see during the rest of her lifetime.

However, do not confuse distraction with avoidance. When you avoid a distressing situation, you choose not to deal with it. But when you distract yourself from a distressing situation, you still intend to deal with it in the future, when your emotions have calmed down to a tolerable level. The

Running away is pretty pathetic, but it's even worse getting caught.

It's been a long week," Nate said. "Don't leave again. Don't leave me with these people." "Which people?" "Any people." "I don't count as people?" "Of course not," he said. "It's been all feelings and love. I want to go back to numbness and avoidance. You're great at that stuff.

Do people sleep a lot because they're tired or because they want to escape from something?

You can avoid reality but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.

As to the career of avoiding making enemies. You can't dig any burrow deep enough. Might as well stand and look them in the eye.