Best 70 quotes in «avoiding quotes» category

I'd chosen instead to just change my route, go miles out of the way, as if avoiding it would make it go away once and for all.

If there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy.

I manage my time by prioritizing tasks, working smarter not harder, and by avoiding procrastination.

If you're living your life avoiding stress, you must be living on an ashram.

I learned to be with myself rather than avoiding myself with limiting habits; I started to be aware of my feelings more, rather than numb them.

I love it when my justifications for avoiding housework are actually legitimate.

If I don’t talk about my religion, if I say I’m not discussing it or different humanitarian things I’m working on, they’re like, “He’s avoiding it.” If I do talk about it, it becomes, “Oh, he’s proselytizing.”

I'm disappearing, avoiding most things.

I'm getting better at avoiding this, but when something sets me off, I tend to punch first and then find out who I actually his later.

I'm not consciously avoiding doing a lot of period drama, but I don't really seek it out either.

I'm not interested in popular culture, particularly. I'm not against it, I'm not avoiding it, but I'm not interested in it as a force in life.

I had been simply treating water, settling on surviving and avoiding pain rather than being actively involved in seeking out life.

I'm sounding out the silence, avoiding all the words.

In avoiding one vice fools rush into the opposite extreme.

I'm not avoiding specifics, but I've always written songs from more of a global standpoint.

In cultivating human values, emphasis should also be placed on avoiding wastage of money, food and time.

It's not life in the present moment that is intolerable; the pain we are avoiding has already happened. We are living in reverse.

Love was like a steamroller. There was no avoiding it; it went over you and you came out flat.

It was only recently that Isabelle had realized other girls weren’t just for envying, avoiding, or disliking.

It was troubling that one of the few people she trusted was a man she spent so much time avoiding

I wasn't fooled. He was avoiding looking at me. "There's nothing to talk about." "I knew you'd say that. Actually, it was a toss-up between that and 'I don't know what you're talking about.'" Dimitri sighed.

Maybe we spend most of our decades being someone else, avoiding ourselves, maybe a man is only himself, his true self, for a few days in his entire life.

Long-distance relationships are another way of avoiding intimacy.

I've learned quite a lot, over the years, by avoiding what I was supposed to be learning.

Often we find our own destiny on the same roads that we have been avoiding.

Most programming languages contain good parts and bad parts. I discovered that I could be better programmer by using only the good parts and avoiding the bad parts.

My favourite subject at school was avoiding unnecessary work.

Peace has a great deal to do with warm-heartednes s and respect for the lives of others, avoiding doing them harm and regarding their lives as being as precious as our own. If, on that basis, we can also be of help to others, so much the better.

My writing process, such as it is, consists of a lot of noodling, procrastinating, dawdling, and avoiding.

Much sheer effort goes into avoiding the truth; left to itself, it sweeps in like the tide.

Talk of revolution is one of avoiding reality.

The best way to confront your fears it to stop avoiding the situation you're most afraid of.

There is such a thing as truth, but we have a vested interest in not seeing it, in avoiding it.

The human race like to do things you are good at and avoid things that they are bad at. Avoiding it is the natural instinct.

There is superstition in avoiding superstition.

The cunning tempter, by avoiding the grossness of vice, often silences objections.

We have to learn to be kind to ourselves. In the long run avoiding unpleasantness is a very unkind thing to do to yourself.

There is a magic formula for resolving conflicts. It is this: Have as your objective the resolving of the conflict, not the gaining of advantage. There is a magic formula for avoiding conflicts. It is this: Be concerned that you do not offend, not that you are not offended.

Weaken a bad habit by avoiding everything that occasioned it or stimulated it, without concentrating upon it in your zeal to avoid it. Then divert your mind to some good habit and steadily cultivate it until it becomes a dependable part of you.

We don't have any miraculous way of avoiding taxes at Wesco and Berkshire.

Whenever you are immersed in compulsive thinking, you are avoiding what is. You don't want to be where you are. Here, Now.

When we truly need to do is often what we most feel like avoiding.

When you blame and criticize others, you are avoiding some truth about yourself.

I have a lot more patience for others than I have for myself, and I am much better at bringing out the best in others than in myself. That's just the kind of person I am. I'm the scratchy stuff on the side of the matchbox.

Your true self is beyond either relying on others or avoiding them in order to know who you are.

You pretty much have to be bad at it [stand-up] for several years to get good at it, so there's no avoiding embarrassing yourself.

Avoid the penalties of the blame game. You were born to be boss player, not a blame giver. Stop the blame!

Doing mistakes is as much a part of life as avoiding them. You may not get a second chance to do the same mistake, so, go on, give it a shot.

Emotional intelligence does not mean merely "being nice". At strategic moment it may demand not "being nice", but rather, for example, bluntly confronting someone with an uncomfortable but consequential truth they've been avoiding.

Run With Me: The only thing I know for sure is this: there's no hiding. If you don't face your issues this round, you'll inevitably face them again.