Top 201 Avoidance Quotes & Sayings

The two-fold goal of all human striving is the avoidance of pain, and the fulfillment of happiness.

Loss avoidance must be the cornerstone of your investment philosophy.

Avoidance of mistakes is the beginning, as it is the end, of mastery in chess.

The recreation of Neanderthals would be mainly a question of societal risk avoidance.

Mental anguish always results from the avoidance of legitimate suffering.

It is important to distinguish between sense-pleasure and sense-desire. There is nothing wrong with sense-pleasure. Pleasure and pain are part of our human experience. Sense-desire, on the other hand, is the grasping at pleasure or the avoidance of pain. This is what creates suffering-grasping and avoidance.

Be truthful... and pay attention. I would also recommend the avoidance of credit cards.

Neurosis is the natural by-product of pain avoidance.

Cats are dangerous companions for writers because cat watching is a near-perfect method of writing avoidance.

Insurers reimburse critical care, not the avoidance of incidents. Therefore, investments are not targeted towards prevention.

Well, the truth is I'm very scared for people to dislike me. I have conflict-avoidance.

But avoidance allows you to believe that you're making all kinds of strides when you're not.

Natural light consistently fosters innovation, as does the avoidance of disturbances from noise and extreme temperatures.

At some point, life starts to pass you by and becomes about avoidance. I want to stay clear from that situation, because I don't like that.

Almost no one raises the real issue of tax avoidance, right? And of the rich just not paying their fair share.

Avoidance of self deception is a matter of integrity not comfort.

Computer users soon learn that the miraculous powers of personal computers are based on avoidance of error.

I was left to painstakingly deal with the aftermath of my avoidance later in life, in therapy or through the lyrics of my songs.

The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall.

To the elitist hedonist, life is the avoidance of boredom and routine.

Acting is the art of speaking in a loud, clear voice and the avoidance of bumping into the furniture.

A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues.

Often life is a frantic avoidance of the truth.

Avoidance is a wonderful therapy

Blame is a change-avoidance strategy.

Business of blurring is fantastic. They both are playing the politics of avoidance. They avoid all the issues on corporate power, Iraq, Palestine, Israel, so on and so forth. They avoid all those. That's the politics of avoidance. All the major issues that are so much on people's minds - health care, living wage, public works, jobs - they avoid.

Avoidance is a great tool to get away from food in my face all day long.

Intellectual labor is a common technique for the avoidance of thinking.

As "unkindness has no remedy at law," let its avoidance be with you a point of honor.

Avoidance of experiences is a fixation and it binds you to the world, it binds you to the personal self.

The leading characteristic of the savage state is its refusal or avoidance of industry.

Avoidance doesn’t solve anything; it merely serves as a temporary salve.

Nothing is more vulgar than a careful avoidance of beginning a letter with the first person singular.

America is in a state of somnolence. It's an avoidance of paranoia through ignoring reality.

I have a certain avoidance of reality that makes fantasy an ideal choice for me.

Creative avoidance is the type of procrastination that affects home business entrepreneurs the most. It is unconsciously filling our day with trivial, unimportant work.

The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.

Most human behavior is nothing other than the avoidance of pain and the pursuit of pleasure.

[E]mpathy - not squishy self-serving conflict avoidance - is the hand-maiden, not the enemy, of reason and intellectual inquiry.

Perceived self-inefficacy predicts avoidance of academic activities whereas anxiety does not

The primary dues a writer or any artist pays is to remain sentient, and to forfeit the illusionary luxury of such anesthetics as avoidance, numbness, and denials.

Tantra has to do with the reconciliation of opposites. All the yogas recommend that you avoid certain experiences. In tantra there is no avoidance.

If something looks like a tax avoidance scheme, then that's probably what it is - and there's lots of clever people working day and night to close them down.

It is not fear that stops you from doing the brave and true thing in your daily life. Rather, the problem is avoidance. You want to feel comfortable so you avoid doing or saying the thing that will evoke fear and other difficult emotions. Avoidance will make you feel less vulnerable in the short run but, it will never make you less afraid.

There is no avoidance in delay.

I often work by avoidance.

To discover a system for the avoidance of war is a vital need of our civilisation.

Cocooning is about insulation and avoidance, peace and protection, coziness and control - a sort of hyper-nesting.

Amusement is a way of boredom-avoidance through external stimulation that fails to exercise our minds. It's mere diversion.

Avoidance of sin is lighter than the pain of remorse.

The desire to break the silence with constant human noise is, I believe, precisely an avoidance of the sacred terror of that divine encounter.

To counter the avoidance of intellectual challenge and responsibility, we must reduce the domination of certainty in education.

At home in Ireland, there's a habit of avoidance, an ironical attitude towards the authority figure.

The American Dream, the idea of the happy ending, is an avoidance of responsibility and commitment.

For many decades my relations with my parents constituted unfinished business. I had dealt with them through sheer avoidance and guilt.

The avoidance of that which causes you pain does not produce enlightenment. It produces avoidance. Religion is the avoidance of pain and suffering.

The key to productivity is to rotate your avoidance techniques.

The obvious danger is that in some situations [denial] can lead to procrastination in seeking help or to avoidance of action that might prevent harm.

The avoidance of loss is the surest way to ensure a profitable outcome.

I'm always aware of writing around things I can't do, and I've come to think that that's actually what 'style' is - an avoidance of your deficiencies.