Avoid Quotes
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Stop thinking, and end your problems. What difference between yes and no? What difference between success and failure? Must you value what others value, avoid what others avoid? How ridiculous!
Lao Tzu -
One should never allow chaos to develop in order to avoid going to war, because one does not avoid a war but instead puts it off to his disadvantage...
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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In practical life the wisest and soundest people avoid speculation.
George Earle Buckle -
Truly, only those who see illness as illness can avoid illness.
Lao Tzu -
There is no limit to which a man will not go to avoid thinking.
Thomas A. Edison -
The prince must consider, as has been in part said before, how to avoid those things which will make him hated or contemptible; and as often as he shall have succeeded he will have fulfilled his part, and he need not fear any danger in other reproaches.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli -
The way to avoid evil is not by maiming our passions, but by compelling them to yield their vigor to our moral nature.
Henry Ward Beecher -
Mediocrity is the most effective mask a superior spirit can wear, because to the great majority, which is to say, to the mediocre,it will not suggest a disguise:--and yet it is precisely for their sake that he puts it on--so as not to arouse them, and, indeed, not infrequently to avoid this out of pity and benevolence.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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If you cannot patiently bear correction, endeavor to avoid fault.
Norm MacDonald -
No political movement can avoid the reality of desire in its midst. Every office building is full of the illicit affairs, the unwanted pregnancies, the crises that happen in human lives.
Amber Hollibaugh -
If you avoid difficult things, great things will avoid you.
George H. Brimhall -
When you’re constantly taking care of the emotions of others, you avoid having to face your own.
Amy Chan -
We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.
Norman Vincent Peale -
Ask yourself: If I can’t avoid it, change it, or make it go away, what if I changed my response to it? What if I decided to stop letting it bother me?
Al Siebert
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Let him know how to choose the mean and avoid the extremes on either side, as far as possible. . . . For this is the way of happiness.
Plato -
In my professional life I do not have to like everyone, but when I feel negative energy with someone I try and avoid that person.
Mario Mandzukic -
I am not so sure whether what we do now is art or something not quite art. If I call it art, it is because I wish to avoid the endless arguments some other name would bring forth.
Allan Kaprow -
The Christians do not commit adultery. They do not bear false witness. They do not covet their neighbor's goods. They honor father and mother. They love their neighbors. They judge justly. They avoid doing to others what they do not wish done to them. They do good to their enemies. They are kind.
Aristides of Athens -
One should avoid carrying out an experiment requiring more than 10 per cent accuracy.
Walther Nernst -
All good writers are sensitive to clichés and endeavor to avoid them.
Ben Yagoda
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There seems to be no limit to which some men will go to avoid the labor of thinking. Thinking is hard work.
Thomas A. Edison -
I quickly get interested in people but just as quickly avoid them when they expect to be my only friends. I ams ure i hurt many people in that way.
Gerda Weissmann Klein -
If I can avoid the mirror when I brush my teeth in the morning, I will. I find security and safety in the most profound degree of ignorance. If you can just stay ignorant of almost everything you'll be OK. It's fine to stay informed and look at things, but to judge things will bog you down.
Johnny Depp -
They were within twenty yards of each other, and so abrupt was his appearance, that it was impossible to avoid his sight. Their eyes instantly met, and the cheeks of each were overspread with the deepest blush. He absolutely started, and for a moment seemed immoveable from surprise; but shortly recovering himself, advanced towards the party, and spoke to Elizabeth, if not in terms of perfect composure, at least of perfect civility.
Jane Austen