Quotes About Avoidance

Ronnie Lott - he got a really good shot on me once and I learned that unless I wanted to shorten my career, I needed to steer clear of his path.

My iPhone was blowing up with notifications that I had became a superstar overnight. It changed my life and I was hiding after that to avoid unnecessary talk.

'Simplifying' the tax code is a priority mainly for people who make enough money to want to avoid paying taxes, and who make their money by means unorthodox enough to make avoiding taxes possible and desirable.

Influence is a very unpleasant subject and I deal with it in a maybe irresponsible way, which is to really ignore it. It would be a nightmare if we started to really think about it; it would tie our hands, it would tie everyone else's hands.

The essence of procrastination lies in not doing what you think you should be doing, a mental contortion that surely accounts for the great psychic toll the habit takes on people. This is the perplexing thing about procrastination: although it seems to involve avoiding unpleasant tasks, indulging in it generally doesn't make people happy.

I think some people are mentally unstable, and I don't think I should be around them.

I think when you get into your 30s, you start to realize all of the patterns you have in your life and all of the stuff that you're avoiding. It's a terribly unsung period in people's lives. I can't think about many artists who have sung about it, because it's so not sexy.

When I feel like exercising I just lie down until the feeling goes away.

When it comes to female fan attention, I'm married, so obviously I avoid the places where you might get unwanted female attention - clubs and social environments, bars and public spaces.

A lot of my upbringing was about denying or fretting or evading.

People who are prone to anxiety are nearly always people-pleasers who fear conflict and negative feelings like anger. When you feel upset, you sweep your problems under the rug because you don't want to upset anyone. You do this so quickly and automatically that you're not even aware you're doing it.

Pick something else".For an instant's flash Kylis remembered being taunted like this before, when she was very small. Anything but that. Anything but what you really want.

There seems to be no limit to which some men will go to avoid the labor of thinking. Thinking is hard work.

I often work by avoidance.

Instead of expending time to train yourself not to be afraid of snakes, avoid them altogether.

Genius is the capacity of avoiding hard work.

You're going to be much less likely to point the finger at somebody and create a huge brouhaha when it wasn't necessary if you had stopped and asked yourself, 'Could I have done things to prevent this situation?'

I do try to eat healthy, and I find that's easiest when I just avoid the Doritos aisle at the grocery store.

I don't like going into stores, I don't like the whole process of buying things.

I got so tired of everybody talking about 'Stranger Things,' I think I developed a mental block against watching it.

You just go around acting like you're saving other people so you don't have to deal with your own problems.

Love, stealing with grace into the heart you wish to destroy, love, turning us blind with the bitter poison of desire, love come not my way. And when you whirl through the streets, wild steps to unchained rhythms, love, I pray you, brush not against me, love, I beg you, pass me by.

Being busy is most often used as a guise for avoiding the few critically important but uncomfortable actions.

Idiota? Por supuesto [comerse solo una tarta gigante empalagosa sólo por que él la había hecho]. Creo que no se puede ser más idiota. Este es un ejemplo ridículo y a pequeñísima escala de lo que continuamente hace la gente a mayor escala con los trabajos: sufrimiento autoimpuesto que puede evitarse... ¿Qué tarta de queso te estás comiendo?