Best 70 quotes in «avoiding quotes» category

Constructive change offers the best method for avoiding destructive change.

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

Engineering is achieving function while avoiding failure.

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

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.

Honestly, I am pretty passionate about avoiding failure!

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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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 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 disappearing, avoiding most things.

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

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

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

In avoiding one vice fools rush into the opposite extreme.

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

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

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

Long-distance relationships are another way of avoiding intimacy.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

Talk of revolution is one of avoiding reality.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

There is superstition in avoiding superstition.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.