Quotes About Avoidance

Así que creo que las tendencias suelen ser cosas que deben evitarse.

Lo cierto es que he usado esta estrategia más para ayudarme a huir de malas inversiones que para detectar las buenas.

Protection from stress serves only to erode my capacity [to handle it]. Stress exposure is the stimulus for all growth, and growth actually occurs during episodes of recovery. Avoiding stress, I have learned, will never provide the capacity that life demands of me.

To justify their avoidance of embarrassment, the whole profession tells the rest of us, based on "extensive scientific studies," that black is white.

Soy anciano y he conocido gran cantidad de problemas, pero la mayoría de ellos no ha llegado a suceder jamás.

Being busy is most often used as a guise for avoiding the few critically important but uncomfortable actions. The options are almost limitless for creating "busyness": You could call a few hundred unqualified sales leads, reorganize your Outlook contacts, walk across the office to request documents you don't really need, or fuss with your BlackBerry for a few hours when you should be prioritizing.

Being busy is most often used as a guise for avoiding the few critically important but uncomfortable actions. The options are almost limitless for creating "busyness":

Don't call it a problem if you can avoid it.

People who avoid their fears also avoid their power.

Pursuing comfortable relationships and avoiding difficult ones

Many Japanese painters and calligraphers would change their names intentionally to keep their relationship to the art always fresh. This way, others' expectations can be avoided.

The bullet we're running from is almost never the one that hits us.

One of the characteristics of the mind is that it is always expecting something, chasing after something it wants or retreating from or resisting something is doesn't want.

I've adopted the guideline of Warren Buffett's partner, Charlie Munger, who says "I wanna know where I'll be when I die - so I never go there.

We do just about anything to avoid pain and preserve a sense of self, and this compulsion often results in us creating psychological defenses.

I never liked going in the ocean.

To this day, I haven't seen 'Jaws.' Because I was always in the ocean, when I was a kid, my mom said, 'See the movies that you want to, but I'm telling you, do not ever see Jaws.'

I do not like attention. Oddly enough, I do everything I can to avoid it.

I don't really compare myself to a lot of other running backs - that's no offense to any other running back, but just the fact that I can see and avoid hits.

I have offices all over the place and I avoid work everywhere. I don't like to write - I like to be finished.

Do not feed the trolls! Racist commenters usually troll the Internet looking for people of color to harass online. If you avoid responding, oftentimes they will get bored and move on.

I don't like big events and crowded areas. I'm almost a curmudgeonly old man in that aspect. I've been like that forever.

I don't want to know I'm getting older. Then I'll start to think about getting checkups and insurance. I don't want that.

One of the things I'm really good at is procrastinating.