Avoided Quotes - Page 11

• I've avoided work all my life, you see. So, I'm like a bee. I go from flower to flower.

  Malachy McCourt

  Flower, Bees

  Source: bigthink.com

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• The war you feel within - that restlessness, the unending uncertainty - is not to be dismissed, avoided, hated. That internal conflict is not dark, it is a beaming light trying to focus you, the rolling thunderous call of courage, the rays of greatness seeking to explode beyond your skin to touch once more the Spirit of Possibility.

  Brendon Burchard

  War, Dark, Greatness

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• The Bible says, Be anxious for nothing, and that is a commandment! I took up a battle in this area, fought my way through and avoided having to be anxious! You can agonize over something for ages and plague yourself and those around you. It's much better to fight your way through as soon as it comes up.

  Esther Smith

  Fighting, Age, Battle

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• The chaotic situation in Libya is definitely creating a threat. Libya now connects the jihadists in Africa with those in the Middle East and in Afghanistan. This could have been avoided.

  Yoweri Museveni

  Creating, Middle East, Libya

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• There was no real gender definition in the sense of how you treat people in those days with gender differences. You avoided them. My parents always told me that you do not make fun of anybody, and so I didn't see anything funny about it.

  David C. Driskell

  Fun, Real, Differences

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• Here is the first step toward success. It's a basic step. It can't be avoided. Step One: Believe in yourself, believe you can succeed.

  David J. Schwartz

  Believe, Firsts, Succeed

  David J. Schwartz (2014). “The Magic of Thinking Big”, p.20, Penguin

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• Never inject a man into the top, if it can be avoided. In a big organization, to have to do that, I think, is a reflection on management, Of course there are always exceptional cases.

  Alfred P. Sloan

  Reflection, Men, Thinking

  Alfred P. Sloan, Jr. (1941). “Adventures of a White-Collar Man”

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• Ever since time began (when was that, I wonder?), it's been moving ever forward without a moment's rest. And one of the privileges given to those who've avoided dying young is the blessed
  right to grow old.

  Haruki Murakami

  Moving, Blessed, Dying

  "What I Talk About When I Talk About Running". Book by Haruki Murakami, 2007.

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• Never call yourself a philosopher, nor talk a great deal among the unlearned about theorems, but act conformably to them. Thus, at an entertainment, don't talk how persons ought to eat, but
  eat as you ought. For remember that in this manner Socrates also universally avoided all ostentation.

  Epictetus

  Entertainment, Philosopher, Remember

  Epictetus (2012). “The Handbook of Epictetus”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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• Do not let the fame come near to you! Protect your freedom! Fame must be avoided so as to breathe freely! Stay in the shadow to work comfortably! Away from the crowds, in the heart of calmness, there is wonderful peace of mind that no fame can ever give you!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Peace, Freedom, Heart

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• Many faux pas of fashion can be avoided if you curb your instinctive desire to buy things with your heart instead of your head.

  Edith Head

  Fashion, Heart, Desire

  Edith Head, Joe Hyams (1967). “HOW TO DRESS FOR SUCCESS”

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• Because the global ecosystem is a connected whole, in which nothing can be gained or lost and which is not subject to over-all improvement, anything extracted from it by human effort must be replaced. Payment of this price cannot be avoided; it can only be delayed. The present environmental crisis is a warning that we have delayed nearly too long.

  Barry Commoner

  Ecosystems, Long, Effort

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• The whole economy of this lower world proves that it is by labor and perseverance only that good is obtained and evil is avoided.

  Patrick Henry

  Perseverance, War, Evil

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• A war must be avoided at all costs. Russia is against any type of use of external force.

  Vladimir Yakunin

  War, Russia, Cost

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I've always avoided those sorts of self-assessments because if you give yourself a 10 out of 10 people think you're a big head, if you give yourself a 6 out of 10 they think you're plagued with self-doubt, so I'm just not going to rate myself.

  Tony Abbott

  Thinking, Assessment, Self

  "Grattan on Friday: In Conversation with Tony Abbott". Interview with Michelle Grattan, theconversation.com. March 27, 2014.

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• Confession of one's guilt purifies and uplifts. Its suppression is degrading and should always be avoided.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Uplifting, Guilt, Purity

  Mahatma Gandhi (1984). “Collected Works”

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• One should believe only what can be chosen to be true or just. Irrational (or unjustified) beliefs should be avoided because they can have disastrous practical consequences.

  Mario Bunge

  Believe, Belief, Should

  Source: deutsche-denker.de

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• The problem with reality TV is that creative writers are not involved; TV folks are, and some journalists who will only mine the surface of subjects. Hard work necessary for discovering and delineating the intimacies of the subjects they capture is mostly avoided.

  Lee Gutkind

  Hard Work, Reality, Creative

  Source: www.luxlotus.com

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• Though people are more important than money, I'm not convinced these large sums of money paid out to victims is the best. Listening to the some of the victims, I think we could have avoided a lot of this if the Church had humbly apologized to them, but we tried to bully some of them. I pray the victims are healed.

  Uwem Akpan

  Thinking, People, Bully

  Source: therumpus.net

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• A wise man does not try to hurry history. Many wars have been avoided by patience, and many have been precipitated by reckless haste.

  Adlai Stevenson I

  Wise, War, Men

  "Speeches of Adlai Stevenson" by Adlai Ewing Stevenson, (p. 39), 1952.

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• Bias and prejudice are attitudes to be kept in hand, not attitudes to be avoided.

  Charles Curtis

  Attitude, Hands, Bias And Prejudice

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• Whatever I cannot do for God's glory must be avoided.

  Arthur W. Pink

  Glory, Communion With God

  Arthur W. Pink (2001). “A W Pink's Studies in the Scriptures, 1928-29”, p.72, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• Profanity is filthiness. A person is known as much by his language as he is by the company he keeps...Filthiness in any form is degrading and soul-destroying and should be avoided.

  Joseph Fielding Smith

  Soul, Language, Form

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• The military's own report says that one-third of deaths and casualties could have been avoided if proper body armor and vehicle armor had been provided from the start of the war.

  John Olver

  Military, War, Armor

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• I always have a very strong sense of shaming oneself, and you can do that a lot in the public eye, so it's best avoided at all costs I think.

  Chris Lowe

  Strong, Eye, Thinking

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