Avoiding Quotes - Page 10

• It's about avoiding reality through various escape routes that become addictions and lead to Hell. My character is addicted to television, chocolate, coffee, to her dream of her son, which has no basis in reality.

  Ellen Burstyn

  Dream, Coffee, Character

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• Success is ultimately realized by people who make more good choices and recover quickly from their bad choices. Our personal and professional success depends on repeating good choices, day in and day out, and avoiding repetition of bad choices.

  David Cottrell

  People, Choices, Professional Success

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• We must not put pressure on people, but by providing information on the population and the environment, and appropriate contraception for everyone (and by their own example), doctors should help bring family size into the arena of environmental ethics, analogous to avoiding patio heaters and high carbon cars.

  John Guillebaud

  Doctors, People, Car

  "Limit families to two children 'to combat climate change'". www.telegraph.co.uk. July 24, 2008.

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• The difficulty, my friends, is not in avoiding death, but in avoiding unrighteousness; for that runs faster than death.

  Socrates

  Death, Running, Faster

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• When I was younger, many of my romantic escapades were just a means of simply avoiding being by myself. I was afraid of feeling lonely, afraid I wouldn't know what to say to myself.

  Michael Zaslow

  Romantic, Lonely, Mean

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• I advocate world government because I am convinced that there is no other possible way of eliminating the most terrible danger in which man has ever found himself. The objective of avoiding total destruction must have priority over any other objective.

  Albert Einstein

  Men, Priorities, Political

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Essays in Humanism”, p.39, Open Road Media

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• Avoiding complexity reduces bugs.

  Linus Torvalds

  Simplicity, Bugs, Programming

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• I've always found that avoiding insanity is useful in life - which in American politics sometimes puts one in the minority.

  Tony Blankley

  Political, Insanity, Minorities

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• For one day, or for one day for a week, refrain from something you habitually do to run away, to escape. Pick something concrete, such as overeating or excessive sleeping or overworking or spending too much time texting or checking e-mails. Make a commitment to yourself to gently and compassionately work with refraining from this habit for this one day. Really commit to it. Do this with the intention that it will put you in touch with the underlying anxiety or uncertainty that you've been avoiding. Do it and see what you discover.

  Pema Chodron

  Running, Sleep, Commitment

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• Becoming a vegan is a sure way of completely avoiding participation in the abuse of farmed animals. Vegans are a living demonstration of the fact that we do not need to exploit animals for food.

  Peter Singer

  Animal, Abuse, Needs

  Peter Singer, Jim Mason (2007). “The Ethics of What We Eat: Why Our Food Choices Matter”, Rodale Books

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

  Seth Godin

  Great Work, Results, Tension

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• But every point of view is a point of blindness: it incapacitates us for every other point of view. From a certain point of view, the room in which I write has no door. I turn around. Now I see the door, but the room has no window. I look up. From this point of view, the room has no floor. I look down; it has no ceiling. By avoiding particular points of view we are able to have an intuition of the whole. The ideal for a Christian is to become holy, a word which derives from “whole.

  Richard Wurmbrand

  Christian, Writing, Doors

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• There is a simple way of avoiding excess risk-taking by the managers of our financial institutions. It is to make it a crime ... had a crime for reckless management of a financial institution been on the books, Northern Rock and RBS would not have blown up.

  Paul Collier

  Book, Simple, Rocks

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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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• An organization belongs on a sick list when promotion becomes more important to its people than accomplishment of their job they are in. It is sick when it is more concerned with avoiding mistakes than with taking risks, with counteracting the weaknesses of its members than with building on their strength. But it is sick also when "good human relations" become more important than performance and achievement.

  Peter Drucker

  Jobs, Mistake, Organization

  "Landmarks of Tomorrow: A Report on the New 'Post-Modern' World". Book by Peter F. Drucker, 1959.

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• 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.

  Dalai Lama

  Helping, Harm, Deals

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

  Eckhart Tolle

  Thinking, Want, Where You Are

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “Stillness Speaks”, p.16, New World Library

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• The negro has maintained his racial purity by his well known habit of
  avoiding baths

  Che Guevara

  Baths, Purity, Well Known

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• Faith is not a leap in the dark; it’s the exact opposite. It’s a commitment based on evidence… It is irrational to reduce all faith to blind faith and then subject it to ridicule. That provides a very anti-intellectual and convenient way of avoiding intelligent discussion.

  John Lennox

  Commitment, Dark, Intelligent

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• For me, personally, when I'm afraid of something - when you're afraid of something, normally you try to go away, you try to avoid it. Instead of avoiding it, to overcome your fear, I believe you need to embrace it.

  Georges St-Pierre

  Believe, Going Away, Trying

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• Somewhere, sometime, somehow you got tangled up in garbage, and you've been avoiding God. You've allowed a veil of guilt to come between you and your Father. You wonder if you could ever feel close to God again. The message of the torn flesh is you can. God welcomes you. God is not avoiding you. God is not resisting you. The curtain is down, the door is open, and God invites you in

  Max Lucado

  Father, Doors, Tangled

  Max Lucado (2012). “He Chose the Nails”, p.191, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• In romance we feel the need to zoom in and expound on our partner's foibles in intimate detail; in friendship we tend to do the opposite, avoiding confrontation through fear, lethargy or both.

  Mariella Frostrup

  Opposites, Romance, Zoom

  "Should I cut an old friend out of my life?" by Mariella Frostrup, www.theguardian.com. November 17, 2013.

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• When we come into the present, we begin to feel the life around us again, but we also encounter whatever we have been avoiding. We must have the courage to face whatever is present - our pain, our desires, our grief, our loss, our secret hopes our love - everything that moves us most deeply.

  Jack Kornfield

  Pain, Grief, Moving

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• Instead of being afraid of the challenge and failure, be afraid of avoiding the challenge and doing nothing

  Soichiro Honda

  Challenges, Doing Nothing, Being Afraid

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• Guilt is only another way of avoiding informed action.

  Audre Lorde

  Guilt, Way, Action

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

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