Top 1200 Avoiding Life Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.

At six I lived in a graveyard full of dolls, avoiding myself, my body, the suspect in its grotesque house.

Direct your attention inward. Have a look inside yourself. What kind of thoughts is your mind producing? What do you feel? Direct your attention into the body. Is there any tension? Once you detect that there is a low level of unease, the background static, see in what way you are avoiding, resisting, or denying life-by denying the Now.

The extension and expansion of the payroll tax holidays for workers would be number one on my list and key to avoiding recession.

Avoiding pregnancy is not an absolute evil. In certain cases, as in this one, or in the one I mentioned of Blessed Paul VI, it was clear.

The best way to confront your fears it to stop avoiding the situation you're most afraid of.

Don't help the young too much — it will just weaken them and they'll resent it, and finally start avoiding you.

I've been in this position before when you never lose, when your record is clear, people are avoiding you.

Asian cultures... place great value on avoiding open expression of disagreement and conflict because they emphasize harmony.

Avoiding inflation is not an absolute imperative but rather is one of a number of conflicting goals that we must pursue and that we may often have to compromise.

Procrastinating, fighting and avoiding will only make it more difficult. The way out is to get it done.

A defensive referendum is for avoiding war and to help keep the Taiwanese people free of fear.

Avoiding where others go wrong is an important step in achieving investment success. In fact, it almost assures it.

We think of Washington as the defensive-minded pragmatist who won the Revolution by avoiding unnecessary risks on the battlefield. But that was not how he started out.

When we fill our souls up with creativity, artistry and intelligence ...we have a better chance at avoiding the behavior that leads to destruction.

You probably have started losing touch with humility when your friends start avoiding you without telling you why.

I've spent so much time avoiding arguments and smoothing relationships with the people around me, this confrontation is painful.

We have to be alert to the way brands behave and misbehave. We have to reward the good ones with our loyalty and punish the bad ones by avoiding them.

Most of us use ‘I’m waiting for God to reveal His calling on my life’ as a means of avoiding action. Did you hear God calling you to sit in front of the television yesterday? Or to go on your last vacation? Or exercise this morning? Probably not, but you still did it. The point isn’t that vacations or exercise are wrong, but that we are quick to rationalize our entertainment and priorities yet are slow to commit to serving God.

It was only recently that Isabelle had realized other girls weren’t just for envying, avoiding, or disliking.

Getting ready for a global pandemic is every bit as important as nuclear deterrence and avoiding a climate catastrophe.

Even when I took first prize, topped the class, won the race, I never really won anything. I was merely avoiding the embarrassment of losing.

Whenever I'm with my mother, I feel as though I have to spend the whole time avoiding land mines.

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

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

Don`t imitate. If you want to know who you are, please avoid imitation, that`s a way of avoiding knowing yourself.

You don't become completely free by just avoiding being a slave; you also need to avoid becoming a master.

Not fighting, avoiding talking to fans... that's when the thoughts creep in about retiring and moving on to something else.

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

High taxes on guns and strong restrictions on their availability are the only realistic hope for avoiding many more Sandy Hooks.

Much sheer effort goes into avoiding the truth; left to itself, it sweeps in like the tide.

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

You pretty much have to be bad at it [stand-up] for several years to get good at it, so there's no avoiding embarrassing yourself.

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.

I didn't expect to become the guy who people look to do something cool in the Rumble in terms of avoiding elimination.

I'm not avoiding the Tamil film industry because I'm making Hindi films. It's just that I'm extremely busy with Bollywood commitments.

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.

People now, especially with the Internet, are connected. They have an expectation of behaviour, of accountability, avoiding conflict and fair and just competition.

I hung about the dangerous frontier of "guess," avoiding with infinite trouble to myself and others the broad valley of reason.

In avoiding the appearance of evil, I am not sure but I have sometimes unnecessarily deprived myself and others of innocent enjoyments.

Some of us seem so anxious about avoiding hell that we forget to celebrate our journey toward heaven.

The principle of avoiding the unnecessary expenditure of energy has enabled the species to survive in a world full of stimuli; but it prevents the survival of the aristocracy.

Smart people don't learn... because they have too much invested in proving what they know and avoiding being seen as not knowing.

When I'm afraid of something, I'm going at it twice as hard. I don't believe any fear can be conquered by avoiding it.

I'm not consciously avoiding doing a lot of period drama, but I don't really seek it out either.

I learned early and at that kitchen table that there are ways of avoiding, without guilt, the commitments of love.

I eat foods such as fish, chicken, fruit and vegetables while avoiding red meat, dairy and wheat.

Make no mistake about it, you are dumb. You’re a group of incredibly well-educated dumb people. I was there. We all were there. You’re barely functional. There are some screw-ups headed your way. I wish I could tell you that there was a trick to avoiding the screw-ups, but the screw-ups, they’re a-coming for ya. It’s a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.

You spend the first term at Oxford meeting interesting and exciting people and the rest of your time there avoiding them

I've spent a long time avoiding painting and dealing with it from a distance. But as I get older, I'm more comfortable with it.

Outstanding long-term results are produced primarily by avoiding dumb decisions, rather than by making brilliant ones.

One man restored our fortunes by delay. [By skilfully avoiding an engagement, Fabius exhausted the resources of the enemy.]

In cultivating human values, emphasis should also be placed on avoiding wastage of money, food and time.

Your true self is beyond either relying on others or avoiding them in order to know who you are.

All taboos serve different human interests by avoiding those things which threaten to cause offence or distress

Be sure to ‘notice’ ideas when you have them. Stop. Take the time to consider them seriously. And if your gut tells you they're compelling, be fearless in their pursuit . we live life only once. So, rather than avoiding the risk of trying, avoid the risk of not trying. Nothing is more haunting than thinking, ‘I wish I had’.

Whatever I had read as a child about the saints had thrilled me. I could see the nobility of giving one's life for the sick, the maimed, the leper. But there was another question in my mind. Why was so much done in remedying the evil instead of avoiding it in the first place? Where were the saints to try to change the social order, not just to minister to the slaves, but to do away with slavery?

Virtue consists in avoiding vice, and is the highest wisdom. [Lat., Virtus est vitium fugere, et sapientia prima.]

We have to learn to be kind to ourselves. In the long run avoiding unpleasantness is a very unkind thing to do to yourself.

My main memory of 'Soft Sounds' was that I was so convinced that 'Psychopomp' was this fluke - I had this real pressure of avoiding the sophomore slump.