Avoiding Quotes - Page 8

• The path to knowledge is a forced one. In order to learn, we must be pushed. On the path of knowledge we are always fighting something, avoiding something, preparing for something; and that something is always inexplicable, greater and more powerful than us.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Powerful, Fighting, Order

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• At the approach of danger two voices speak with equal force in the heart of man: one very reasonably tells the man to consider the nature of the danger and the means of avoiding it and the other, even more reasonable, says that it is too painful and harassing to think of the danger... better to turn aside from the painful subject till it has come, and to think of what is pleasant. In solitude a man generally yields to the first voice; in society to the second.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Mean, Heart, Men

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• In avoiding one vice fools rush into the opposite extreme.

  Horace

  Opposites, Vices, Fool

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• 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.

  Joe Bradley

  Culture, Force, Not Interested

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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

  Rebecca Hall

  Drama, Periods

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I have no creative use for guilt, yours or my own. Guilt is only another way of avoiding informed action, of buying time out of the pressing need to make clear choices, out of the approaching storm that can feed the earth as well as bend the trees.

  Audre Lorde

  Choices, Creative, Tree

  Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.130, Crossing Press

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• In my early 30s, I started to realise I was avoiding something on a personal level, but also as a writer. I was in denial about who I was, and was trying to be someone who I was not.

  Ayad Akhtar

  Trying, Denial, Levels

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Aim for brevity while avoiding jargon.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Jargon, Aim, Brevity

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• The best way to achieve surprise quality is by avoiding cliches.

  Alexey Brodovitch

  Quality, Way, Surprise

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• On a small scale, person-to-person, Jesus encountered the kinds of suffering common to all of us. And how did he respond? Avoiding philosophical theories and theological lessons, he reached out with healing and compassion. He forgave sin, healed the afflicted, cast out evil, and even overcame death.

  Philip Yancey

  Jesus, Philosophical, Healing

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• You will gain energy by meditating deeply, by speaking the truth, by learning to be still and by avoiding the crowd, most of the time, not all of the time.

  Frederick Lenz

  Energy, Crowds, Gains

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• I hung about the dangerous frontier of "guess," avoiding with infinite trouble to myself and others the broad valley of reason.

  Helen Keller

  Valleys, Trouble, Infinite

  Helen Keller (2009). “The Story of My Life: With Her Letters and a Supplementary Account of Her Education”, p.107, The Floating Press

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

  Ani DiFranco

  Expression, Silence

  Song: The Story, Album: Ani DiFranco

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• 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.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Magic, Conflict, Advantage

  Peace Pilgrim (1981). “Steps Toward Inner Peace”, p.30, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• Our current gun culture simply ensures that more and more domestic disputes will end in the ultimate tragedy, and that more convenience-store confrontations over loud music coming from a car will leave more teenage boys bloodied and dead... What I believe is, if he [Belcher] didn’t possess/own a gun, he and Kasandra Perkins would both be alive today... Handguns do not enhance our safety. They exacerbate our flaws, tempt us to escalate arguments, and bait us into embracing confrontation rather than avoiding it.

  Bob Costas

  Teenage, Believe, Gun

  "In KC, it’s no time for a game" by Jason Whitlock, www.foxsports.com. December 1, 2012.

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• I have studied the art of the masters and the art of the moderns, avoiding any preconceived system and without prejudice. I have no more wanted to imitate the former than to copy the latter; nor have I thought of achieving the idle aim of art for art's sake.

  Gustave Courbet

  Art, Copying, Prejudice

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• In avoiding one evil we fall into another, if we use not discretion.

  Horace

  Fall, Evil, Use

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• A lot of people think that Christianity is you doing all the righteous things you hate and avoiding all the wicked things you love in order to go to Heaven. No, that's a lost man with religion. A Christian is a person whose heart has been changed; they have new affections.

  Paul Washer

  Christian, Hate, Heart

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• The young are adept at learning, but even more adept at avoiding it.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Veteran, Young, Adept

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• What is called a high standard of living consists, in considerable measure, in arrangements for avoiding muscular energy, for increasing sensual pleasure and enhancing caloric intake above any conceivable nutritional requirement.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Success, Sensual, Energy

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1968). “The New Industrial State”

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• I may say that this is the greatest factor: the way in which the expedition is equipped, the way in which every difficulty is foreseen, and precautions taken for meeting or avoiding it. Victory awaits him who has everything in order, luck, people call it. Defeat is certain for him who has neglected to take the necessary precautions in time, this is called bad luck.

  Roald Amundsen

  Taken, Order, People

  Roald Amundsen (2013). “The South Pole”, p.222, BoD – Books on Demand

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• The activity you're most avoiding contains your biggest opportunity

  Robin Sharma

  Opportunity, Activity

  Twitter post from Dec 13, 2016

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• Anxiety is an even better teacher than reality, for one can temporarily evade reality by avoiding the distasteful situation; but anxiety is a source of education always present because one carries it within.

  Rollo May

  Teacher, Reality, Anxiety

  Rollo May Ph.D. (2015). “The Meaning Of Anxiety”, p.66, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• I love to invent - avoiding the truth. I need to dramatize.

  Sylvia Kristel

  Needs

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A clean and well-cared for appearance should be maintained. Hair styles should be clean and neat, avoiding extreme styles. Mens' hair should be trimmed above the collar, leaving the ears uncovered. If worn, mustaches should be neatly trimmed. Earrings for men are unacceptable, and beards are not acceptable, except for certified medical reasons.

  Harold B. Lee

  Men, Hair, Leaving

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