Quotes About Avoidance

The Bears treat offense as if it's bubonic plague.

We care a lot more about not having the disease than treating it.

I had a tremendous horror of going into the Army. That is probably why I went to college for so long.

Come to close?No one wants to come to close.If it's done for them, they accept it, even while they condemn it.Why not?But no one wants to know what it's like.Turn a blind eye.Maybe it will go away.

Umgangsformen sind Formen, die zunehmend umgangen werden.

Well, it is true. Sometimes avoiding something can give it more and more meaning rather than less and less.

I'm shy, paranoid, whatever word you want to use. I hate fame. I've done everything I can to avoid it.

When you love someone so much that you are in pain when you are apart it ends up being destructive. I never want to be in that place again.

A lot of success in life and business comes from knowing what you want to avoid: early death, a bad marriage, etc.

Far more critical than what we know or what we don't know is what we don't want to know.

I never talk about my personal life. After these rumours, I definitely do not want to comment on anything.

I was afraid of looking into my heart...afraid of thinking seriously about anything...I did not want to know whether I was loved, and I did not want to admit to myself that I was not loved.

I do know that I am in continuous need of the Spiritual and that I usually go to great lengths to avoid it.

He avoided eligible young women, too, because he was insecure in their presence and was afraid of failure and rejection in love.

Sometimes people use thought to not participate in life.

The impulse to eschew the unpleasant leads to avoidance; avoidance leads to aversion; aversion leads to fear; fear leads to hatred; hatred leads to aggression. Unwittingly, the oh-so-natural instinct to avoid the unpleasant becomes the root of hatred. It leads to war: war within, war without. Entertaining aversion is a slippery slope.

Willful blindness sees no end of damage done.

I have successfully avoided enjoying opera all my life. -quoted in Entertainment Weeky, http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20548...

And I think that if I were a for real celebrity that was recognizable everywhere, I'd just crawl under a rock and you know, have someone run over the rock with a car, or something.

We human beings love trying to solve things. As long as they're not our things.

I have spent most of my life (like most people) avoiding transcendence at all costs, mainly because the shit hurts.

True heroics must be carefully planned - and strenuously avoided.

Another key process in the cycle of suffering is experiential avoidance. It is an immediate consequence of fusing with mental instructions that encourage the suppression, control, or elimination of experiences expected to be distressing.

From 1994 to 1997, I did nothing. I slept and slept and slept. If I was awake, I had to deal with things, I had to do things. In order to avoid that, I would just stay in bed.