Avoiding Quotes - Page 16

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

  Alexey Brodovitch

  Quality, Way, Surprise

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• Avoiding pregnancy is not an absolute evil.

  Pope Francis

  Pregnancy, Evil, Absolutes

  "Pope suggests contraception can be condoned in Zika crisis" by Harriet Sherwood, www.theguardian.com. February 18, 2016.

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• Laying siege to enemy-controlled cities allows attacking armies to keep their own casualties low by avoiding urban combat.

  Walid Muallem

  Army, Cities, Enemy

  Source: www.independent.co.uk

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• What matter and opportunity [for thy activity] art thou avoiding? For what else are all these things, except exercises for the reason, when it has viewed carefully and by examination into their nature the things which happen in life? Persevere then until thou shalt have made these things thy own, as the stomach which is strengthened makes all things its own, as the blazing fire makes flame and brightness out of everything that is thrown into it.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Art, Exercise, Opportunity

  Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2015). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Golden Sayings Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.62, Lulu.com

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• The question about progress has become the question whether we can discover any way of submitting to the worldwide paternalism of a technocracy without losing all personal privacy and independence. Is there any possibility of getting the super Welfare State's honey and avoiding the sting?

  C. S. Lewis

  Independence, Progress, Honey

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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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• Working on my own vocals is something I've been avoiding. But, I'm constantly thinking of ways to be able to include my own vocals without getting embarrassed. Even John Lennon wasn't comfortable on hearing his voice.

  Hans-Peter Lindstrøm

  Thinking, Voice, Able

  Interview with Dominique Leone, pitchfork.com. September 29, 2008.

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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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• Many people are probably better off avoiding therapists and using the resources and support available to us in everyday life. But therapy can be a chance to think things through with a professional in a calm, supportive and nonjudgmental atmosphere, and that can be helpful.

  Peter Kinderman

  Thinking, People, Support

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• I`ve got to get a shoutout to, who`s the "BuzzFeed" reporter, he`s amazing at finding stuff. You have Donald Trump talking about his experiences having casual sex as his own personal Vietnam, avoiding an STD, like no one.

  Chris Hayes

  Sex, Talking, Vietnam

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• We got a leader in Iran who has announced that he wants to destroy Israel. So I've told people that if you're interested in avoiding World War III, it seems like you ought to be interested in preventing them from have the knowledge necessary to make a nuclear weapon.

  George W. Bush

  War, Israel, Iran

  "Sen. Lieberman Backs U.S. Action Against Iran". Interview with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. November 2, 2007.

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• The course of a great statesman resembles that of navigable rivers, avoiding immovable obstacles with noble bends of concession, seeking the broad levels of opinion on which men soonest settle and longest dwell, following and marking the almost imperceptible slopes of national tendency, yet always aiming at direct advances, always recruited from sources nearer heaven, and sometimes bursting open paths of progress and fruitful human commerce through what seem the eternal barriers of both.

  James Russell Lowell

  Men, Rivers, Heaven

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “My Study Windows”, p.166

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• The iron arc of the avoiding journey Curves back upon my weakness at the end; Whether the faint light spark against my face Or in the dark my sight hide from my sight, Centre and circumference are both my weakness.

  Stephen Spender

  Dark, Journey, Light

  Stephen Spender (1966). “World Within World: The Autobiography of Stephen Spender”, p.5, Univ of California Press

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• So many women have experienced horrific forms of male violence throughout their lives, and why isn't there a song about how you get depressed because of it? And you don't know what to do, and you don't know how to talk to your friends and how weird it is to be a feminist in that situation, where there's sort of the expectation that you're super-strong superwoman but you're just, like, eating pizza in your house avoiding talking about it.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Song, Strong, Talking

  "The original riot grrrl on Katy Perry, '90s revival". Interview with Abbey Goodman, www.cnn.com. June 7, 2011.

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• Many writers-in-waiting spend a lot of time avoiding the work at hand. The most common way to avoid writing is by procrastination. This is the writer's greatest enemy. There is little to say about it except that once you decide to write every day, you must make yourself sit at the desk or table for the required period whether or not you are putting down words. Make yourself take the time even if the hours seem fruitless. Ideally, after a few days or weeks of being chained to the desk, you will submit to the story that must be told.

  Walter Mosley

  Writing, Procrastination, Hands

  Walter Mosley (2009). “This Year You Write Your Novel”, p.9, Hachette UK

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• He who wants to educate himself in Chess must evade what is dead in Chess... the habit of playing with inferior opponents; the custom of avoiding difficult tasks; the weakness of uncritically taking over variations or rules discovered by others; the vanity which is self-sufficient; the incapacity for admitting mistakes; in brief, everything that leas to standstill or to anarchy.

  Emanuel Lasker

  Mistake, Vanity, Self

  "Lasker's Manual of Chess". Book by Emanuel Lasker, Published in New York: Dover, p. 338, 1960.

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• I'm interested in avoiding two types of behaviour [in my children]: one is the sense of guilt and the other is a sense of entitlement. If these two are avoided, then the rest is up to them.

  John Elkann

  Children, Two, Talking

  "Unlikely Heir Who Saved the Family Jewels". Financial Times, March 06, 2011.

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• There are two ways of confronting the country's problems.One is through a management style based on adventurism, instability, play-acting, exaggerations, wrongdoing, being secretive, self-importance, superficiality and ignoring the law. The second way is based on realism, respect, openness, collective wisdom and avoiding extremism.

  Mir-Hossein Mousavi

  Country, Law, Play

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• Much has seen said of the wisdom of old age. Old age is wise, I grant, for itself, but not wise for the community. It is wise in declining new enterprises, for it has not the power nor the time to execute them; wise in shrinking from difficulty, for it has not the strength to overcome it; wise in avoiding danger, for it lacks the faculty of ready and swift action, by which dangers are parried and converted into advantages. But this is not wisdom for mankind at large, by whom new enterprises must be undertaken, dangers met, and difficulties surmounted.

  William C. Bryant

  Wise, Community, Age

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• Most bloggers have no institutional credibility, and so they must build it, by linking transparently, and allowing you to easily double check their work. But more than anything, because linking sources is such an easy thing to do, and the motivations for avoiding links are so dubious, I've detected myself using a new rule of thumb: if you don't link to primary sources, I just don't trust you.

  Ben Goldacre

  Pain, Motivation, Dubious

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• Avoiding any of the tenets of amateurism, after all, certainly does not make you a good professional. Perhaps it is better to see fearless flair and professional steeliness as two ideas which must always coexist. One half of sport may be about harnessing human talent, but the other half depends on setting it free.

  Edward Smith

  Soccer, Sports, Football

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• There are two sides to increasing energy. One is avoiding loss. The other is learning how to gain energy.

  Frederick Lenz

  Loss, Two Sides, Energy

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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 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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