Best 70 quotes in «avoiding quotes» category

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

Third, it is helpful to seek advice from those who are spiritually mature and solid in their faith. A godly counselor or pastor can assist you in avoiding the common mistakes that confuse many young people.

Success involves avoiding the lure of making excuses.

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.

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.

Until I see President Trump routinely flying on a Boeing 737 Max, I will be avoiding it.

You cannot find peace by avoiding life, you know.” His mother smiled at him and sat across the table, spreading her papers around as if they were a tablecloth made of silken letters.

Avoiding humiliation is the core of tragedy and comedy.

Avoiding depression with large daily doses of television.

Avoiding pregnancy is not an absolute evil.

Avoiding things that drain you is more important than gaining energy.

Avoiding a bathtub because your parents tried to kill you in one isn't the same as avoiding your entire life by becoming a wolf.

Being a Christan is less about cautiously avoiding sin than about courageously and actively doing God's will.

Being present means being completely aware of all that is. It means you’re not in denial, you’re not pretending, and you’re not avoiding.

But I have been avoiding talking about what I'm doing now because it's frustrating for people to hear about things that aren't available yet.

Actually, when you get into your sixties and above, you want to think about exercise differently. It's not just about you know cardiovascular or lifting weights. It's also about avoiding accidents.

Aim for brevity while avoiding jargon.

Engineering is achieving function while avoiding failure.

Constructive change offers the best method for avoiding destructive change.

Friendships, like marriages, are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable.

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.

Great work is the result of seeking out tension, not avoiding it.

Don't confuse the evil of avoiding pregnancy by itself, with abortion.

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

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.”

Honestly, I am pretty passionate about avoiding failure!

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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 disappearing, avoiding most things.

In avoiding one vice fools rush into the opposite extreme.

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

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

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