All activities involve risk; the avoidance of all risk…

Much of the research into humans' risk-avoidance machinery shows that it is antiquated and unfit for the modern world; it is made to counter…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“The traditional approach to an unknown risk is avoidance.”

— James F. Clapp

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

— George M. Church

Right at the core, the mainstream has it backwards. Warren Buffett often quips that the first rule of investing is to not lose money,…

— Seth Klarman

All the textbooks talk about avoidance as a classic hallmark of anxiety disorder. So you need a therapist who is sympathetic and understanding but…

— Scott Stossel

I've been trying to avoid my problems, and I don't know what to do. I get high, but when I come down, my problems…

— Eugene Nathaniel Butler

“If you love stress, practice avoidance.”

— Sharon Rowe

You can gain power by avoidance. You can gain power by doing certain things. You can gain much more power by meditating.

— Frederick Lenz

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

— Deepak Chopra

I am not in favour of the takeover of excellent and strategically important British companies by struggling foreign firms whose actions are fuelled by…

— David Sainsbury, Baron Sainsbury of Turville

America is not static. America is striving. And sometimes, America requires critique. Jingoism is an avoidance of realism. You can simultaneously love and be…

— Charles M. Blow

“People spend entire lifetimes trying to avoid the things that have already happened.”

— Silvia Hartmann

All work is the avoidance of harder work.

— James Richardson

“Collect yourself: to smother what you feel, recall to order, summon in one place; making, like Orpheus, a system against loss.”

— Ruth Padel

Unmarried couples should get married - that's an excellent tax avoidance measure, if a bit drastic.

— John Whiting