Aversion Quotes

Value investing is risk aversion.

— Seth Klarman

I have an aversion to conformity.

— Jeremy Enigk

“Be the dolphin! ”

— Adam Moskowitz

I've always had an aversion to debt.

— Brunello Cucinelli

I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“To hell with you. To hell with you and to hell with the Internet.”

— Ray Bradbury

The virtue in most request is conformity.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I view risk-aversion as crippling America in many ways.

— Peter Diamandis

I have a congenital aversion to failure.

— Abraham Lincoln

Business was his aversion; Pleasure was his business.

— Maria Edgeworth

My only aversion to vice, is the price.

— Victor Buono

“You’ve been unable to adjust to the idea of war.' 'Yes, sir.' 'You have a morbid aversion to dying.”

— Joseph Heller

The devil's aversion to holy water is a light matter compared with a despots dread of a newspaper that laughs.

— Mark Twain

I have an aversion to taking care of my gear, a wayward manifestation of my punk ethos.

— Lou Barlow

Success breeds conservatism, and that means a love affair with the status quo and an aversion to change.

— Frank Popoff

One of the greatest inhibitions to the development of human potential is the aversion to effective practice.

— Douglas B. Reeves

I will do strongly before the sun and moon whatever inly rejoices me and the heart apoints.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Blogs are the main exception I make in my aversion to complex machinery.

— Laurie R. King

I deeply detest social distinction and snobbery, and in that lies my strong aversion to titular honours.

— Helen Clark

“IN MY DEFENSE, I didn’t mean to start the Apocalypse. It wasn’t just my personal aversion to oblivion; I had a clear…

— J.C. Nelson

You human beings think that yoga is in some way going to make everything you want to happen, work out. You are…

— Frederick Lenz

I hate to get gender essentialist, but I'm starting to think that a lot of married men have some sort of heterosexually…

— Mallory Ortberg

It is dangerous and harmful to be guided in our life's course by hatreds and aversions, for they are wasteful of energy…

— Jawaharlal Nehru

I have three older sisters who, when we were children, used to hold me down on a bad day and put make-up…

— James Nesbitt

While it might seem that anyone can be a value investor, the essential characteristics of this type of investor-patience, discipline, and risk…

— Seth Klarman

The aversion to lying is often a hidden ambition to render our words credible and weighty, and to attach a religious aspect…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Whatsoever is the object of any man's Appetite or Desire; that is it which he for his part calleth Good: and the…

— Thomas Hobbes

Justified or not, the Supreme Court has a kind of sacred status in American life. For whatever reason, Presidents can safely run…

— Jon Meacham

Focusing on being a person instead of an Asian or an [anything] seems to promote a worldview that encourages people to treat…

— Tao Lin

When we practice generating compassion, we can expect to experience our fear of pain. Compassion practice is daring. It involves learning to…

— Pema Chodron

My only supporter and comrade-in-arms was Georg Helm, who had endeavored to formulate an energetic conception of science before me and had…

— Wilhelm Ostwald

“I am grabbed by the scruff of the neck and pitched clean out of the room. It seems that this sudden aversion…

— Natsume Soseki

I have a real aversion to machines. I write with a pen. Then I read it to someone who writes it onto…

— Fran Lebowitz

I registered the dukkha of self-aversion with such clarity that I knew there was no freedom unless I could love this life…

— Tara Brach

I remember how people would often come to see my master Jamyang Khyentse simply to ask for his guidance for the moment…

— Sogyal Rinpoche

I've always had an aversion to looking sexy, but I've grown out of it.

— Kristen Stewart

“Aversion to change is denial of destiny.”

— Andy Harglesis

Jealousy - that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion.

— Emile M. Cioran

Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires.

— Jonathan Swift

I have an aversion to comedy where everybody speaks in punchlines.

— Bobcat Goldthwait