Quotes About Avoidance

Actions based upon the desire to take responsibility; to make things better; to avoid temptation and face what we would rather avoid; to act voluntarily, courageously, and truthfully—these make what comes into Being much better, in all ways, for ourselves and for others, than what arises as a consequence of avoidance, resentment, the search for revenge, or the desire for mayhem.

I didn't argue. I don't do confrontation any better than I do basements, or shots of Jägermeister.

Anxious people exhibit: (1) increased attention to threats; (2) deficient discrimination of threat and safety; (3) increased avoidance of possible threats; (4) inflated estimates of threat likelihood and consequences; (5) heightened reactivity to threat uncertainty; and (6) disrupted cognitive and behavioral control in the presence of threats.

To be rid of fear, the theory goes, one has to overcome habitual avoidance and be reexposed to the fear-arousing stimulus, experience the fear, and then learn, via extinction, that the stimulus is not really the portent of a harmful outcome. The

Prolonged exposure therapy, a variant of flooding, attempts to maintain a high level of fear arousal, but its key premise is that all aspects of fear, as defined by Lang's three response systems (behavioral avoidance, physiological responses, and verbal behavior), have to be reduced in order for exposure to be effective.

The therapy thus starts by identifying negative appraisals, memories, trigger stimuli, and cognitive and behavioral factors that preserve symptoms. Then the therapist helps the client modify the excessive negative appraisals, elaborate the memories, discriminate triggers that lead to reexperiencing them, and eliminate cognitive and behavioral avoidance.

When a man starts running away from things in life he builds up a whole chain of complexes and fear.

I don't wish to meet people. They disgust me. Increasingly so. But I must have milk.

She used to have to force me to log out every night, because I never wanted to return to the real world. Because the real world sucked.

Helen felt her face flush. She discovered that she could not meet Dane's gaze. As long as he did not look at her, she was all right. Even while she was touching him, massaging the muscles of his back, she could control her response to him. But now, when she tried to look into the eyes that mirrored his soul, she flinched.

I got into acting to avoid politics of any sort so I could remain in a fantasy world.

There are things that I would avoid, so I have the choice to say no, when I feel I'm repeating myself too much. But then there could be a reason to do that with a good director. So I think actors have to have a loose philosophy.

I don't consciously think of any certain direction when I'm writing. I only try not to be repetitive or redundant.

When something bad is written about me, I find it hurtful. So I choose not to look at it.

People forget that boxing is the art of self-defence - ideally, hit and not be hit - and maybe we should all think about that a bit more.

I don't watch 'American Idol' - that'd be like getting divorced from somebody and then hanging out with them.

Nobody celebrates when they avoid an illness they never expected to get.

Everything I know about Facebook makes me want to avoid it. Twitter has really improved my reading habits.

I have not purposely gone out to try to avoid paying income tax.

In der That ja: Sie scheinen mich zu meiden. Warum?" "Warum? Weil – weil ich Sie anbete.

Many people would rather die than think; in fact, most do.

Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.

There is a tendency at every important but difficult crossroad to pretend that it's not really there.

Al mismo tiempo, pensar en la muerte puede ser angustiante, por lo que tendemos a evitar hacerlo, y nos comportamos como si nunca fuese a suceder. Seguimos postergando experiencias maravillosas, como si en nuestro último mes de vida pudiésemos embutir todas esas experiencias aplazadas a lo largo de nuestra vida. No es necesario decir que eso no es posible, por lo que es completamente irracional.