Avoiding Quotes - Page 21

• Golf is the art of driving hard, avoiding the rough, surmounting traps and hazards, aiming straight, and arriving on the green at last, only to end up in a hole in the ground before your companions. The favored pastime of businessmen and their cronies, probably without a full appreciation of its metaphorical implications.

  Rick Bayan

  Appreciation, Art, Golf

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• Gratitude is the intention to count-your-blessings every day, every minute, while avoiding, whenever possible, the belief that you need or deserve different circumstances.

  Timothy Miller

  Gratitude, Blessing, Different

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• Friendships, like marriages, are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable.

  John D. MacDonald

  Friendship, Unforgivable, Dependent

  "The Last One Left". Book by John D. MacDonald, 1967.

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• There is no life without work, anxieties or tensions. Peace is not found in avoiding these but in understanding them and controlling their force.

  Wendy Beckett

  Inspirational Life, Anxiety, Understanding

  Wendy Beckett (1995). “Meditations on peace”

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• Wisdom is avoiding all thoughts that weaken you.

  Wayne Dyer

  Wayne W. Dyer (2012). “21 Days to Master Success and Inner Peace”, p.86, Hay House, Inc

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• I love it when my justifications for avoiding housework are actually legitimate.

  Julie Kenner

  Justification, Housework

  Julie Kenner (2014). “The Trouble with Demons”, p.375, JKInk

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• The history of taxation shows that taxes which are inherently excessive are not paid. The high rates inevitably put pressure upon the taxpayer to withdraw his capital from productive business and invest it in tax-exempt securities or to find other lawful methods of avoiding the realization of taxable income. The result is that the sources of taxation are drying up; wealth is failing to carry its share of the tax burden; and capital is being diverted into channels which yield neither revenue to the Government nor profit to the people.

  Andrew Mellon

  Yield, Government, People

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• The essence of Capablanca's greatness is his rare talent for avoiding all that can complicate or confuse the conflict.

  Max Euwe

  Greatness, Essence, Chess

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• Avoiding fear and pain can cause them to grow stronger. The trick with fear is to go with it, to let it do it's work. Once fear has put us in touch with our inner issue it can diminish. In fact, simply acknowledging fear seems to lessen it.

  John Earle

  Inspirational, Pain, Issues

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• These days it's hard to meet women. Feel like my love life is finished. I been avoiding commitment. That's why I'm in this position.

  Drake

  Relationship, Love Life, Commitment

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• To many people virtue consists chiefly in repenting faults, not in avoiding them.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Integrity, People, Faults

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• A sense of the value of time... is an essential preliminary to efficient work; it is the only method of avoiding hurry.

  Arnold Bennett

  Essentials, Efficient Work, Method

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• We don't live in a shared reality, we each live in a reality of our own, and causing upset is often the price of trying to reach each other. It's always easier to dismiss other people than to go through the awkward and time consuming process of understanding them. We have given 'taking offense' a social status it doesn't deserve: it's not much more than a way of avoiding difficult conversations.

  Frankie Boyle

  Reality, People, Understanding

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• Probably the single-most concrete and substantive thing an American, young American, could do to lower our carbon footprint is not turning off the lights or driving a Prius, it's having fewer kids...we'll soon see a market in baby-avoidance carbon credits similar to efforts to sell CO2 credits for avoiding deforestation.

  Andrew Revkin

  Baby, Kids, Carbon Footprint

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• I don't put much stock in powers that people have to hurt others, in sorcery and all this nonsense. There are murders and there are dictators. That is just a part of life. The intelligent use of power in yoga can assist you avoiding that side of humanity.

  Frederick Lenz

  Hurt, Yoga, Buddhism

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• One of the best ways of avoiding necessary and even urgent tasks is to seem to be busily employed on things that are already done.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Work, Tasks, Done

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1998). “The Affluent Society”, p.15, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It is not a demonstration of kindness or friendship to the people we care about to join them in indulging in wrongheaded, negative feelings. We do a better service to ourselves and others by remaining detached and avoiding melodramatic reactions.

  Epictetus

  Motivational, Kindness, People

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• You can't buy peace by just wishing it and avoiding the challenges that other nations present to you.

  Fred Thompson

  Challenges, Wish, Nations

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• Intuition is neither the ability to engage prophecy
  nor a means of avoiding financial loss or painful relationships.
  It is actually the ability to use energy data
  to make decisions in the immediate moment.

  Caroline Myss

  Mean, Loss, Data

  Caroline Myss (2010). “Anatomy Of The Spirit”, p.179, Random House

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• All men seek happiness. This is without exception. Whatever different means they employ, they all tend to this end. The cause of some going to war, and of others avoiding it, is the same desire in both, attended with different views. The will never takes the least step but to this object. This is the motive of every action of every man, even of those who hang themselves.

  Blaise Pascal

  Happiness, War, Mean

  Blaise Pascal (1959). “Pascal's Pensées: Selections”, p.114, Prabhat Prakashan

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• Meditation practice is neither holding on nor avoiding; it is a settling back into the moment, opening to what is there.

  Jack Kornfield

  Meditation Practice, Holding On, Moments

  Joseph Goldstein, Jack Kornfield (2001). “Seeking the Heart of Wisdom: The Path of Insight Meditation”, p.23, Shambhala Publications

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• There are a number of paths that lead to this place. I have been avoiding them for some small time, now.

  Neil Gaiman

  Numbers, Path, Has Beens

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• We thought we were being mature when we were only being safe. We imagined we were being responsible but were only being cowardly. What we called realism turned out to be a way of avoiding things rather than facing them.

  Julian Barnes

  Safe, Way, Mature

  Julian Barnes (2011). “The Sense of an Ending”, p.93, Random House

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• The art of avoiding extremes is an art that is drawn on the canvas of maturity and painted with the abstract strokes of many experiences.

  T. D. Jakes

  Inspirational, Art, Maturity

  T. D. Jakes (2000). “The Lady, Her Lover, and Her Lord”, Berkley

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• Avoiding the appearance of queenly behavior is politically wise. But it does American culture no favors if a first lady tries so hard to be average that she winds up looking common.

  Robin Givhan

  Wise, Average, Wind

  "Melania stiletto-gate is a showcase for media pettiness" by Stephen L. Miller, www.foxnews.com. August 31, 2017.

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