Aversion Quotes · Page 2

Business was his aversion; Pleasure was his business.

— Maria Edgeworth

I have a congenital aversion to failure.

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Peter Diamandis

I have an aversion to laugh tracks - the moment I hear a laugh track, I go to another channel.

— Bob Newhart

I have a real aversion to sentimentality, but I also really want to write about love and friendship.

— Phoebe Waller-Bridge

He was the soul of politeness to everyone -- to some with a hint of aversion, to others with a hint of…

— Anonymous

The concept of loss aversion is certainly the most significant contribution of psychology to behavioral economics.

— Daniel Kahneman

To be loved, we should merit but little esteem; all superiority attracts awe and aversion.

— Claude Adrien Helvetius

To have the same desires and the same aversion is assuredly a firm bond of friendship.

— Sallust

I have an aversion to news nuggets, so I find myself looking for sites that offer more analysis.

— Jeff Moss

Aversion gives love its death wound and forgetfulness buries it. - Jean de la Bruyere

— Anonymous

The reason a person is in a particular state of mind is primarily because of attraction and aversion. Attraction and aversion cause…

— Frederick Lenz

In fact, this network, which we may identify as the Round Table Groups, has no aversion to cooperating with the Communists, or…

— Carroll Quigley

The demons aren't the noise. They are our aversion to the noise...when you can accept discomfort, doing so allows a balance of…

— Stephen Levine

I never had an aversion because I was active in the drama club. If I had that aversion I certainly wouldn't put…

— Bob Newhart

Pleasure is our first and kindred good. It is the starting point of every choice and of every aversion, and to it…

— Epicurus

The spirit of the world encloses four kinds of spirits, diametrically opposed to charity--the spirit of resentment, spirit of aversion, spirit of…

— Jacques-Benigne Bossuet

I will not hide my tastes or aversions. I will so trust that what is deep is holy, that I will do…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I don't really have an aversion to watching myself. I think I've been doing it for long enough that I have a…

— Mae Whitman

No one has the least regard for the man; with them all, he has been an object of avoidance, suspicion, and aversion;…

— Charles Dickens

To the extent to which the pull that moves me really is irresistible, like an invincibly strong addiction, the normal procedures of…

— Raymond Geuss

Loss aversion is a really disproportionate anxiety about stuff that doesn't matter very much. So for instance, if you lose $5, you…

— Tim Harford

To be happy one must be (a) well fed, unhounded by sordid cares, at ease in Zion, (b) full of a comfortable…

— H. L. Mencken

Let us admit that most of us writers feel an essential aversion to politics. By taking such a position, however, we accept…

— Vaclav Havel

Wine is the source of the greatest evils among communities. It causes diseases, quarrels, seditions, idleness, aversion to labor, and family disorders.…

— Francois Fenelon

Every moment think steadily as a Roman and a man to do what thou hast in hand with perfect and simple dignity,…

— Marcus Aurelius

And indeed nothing but the most determined scepticism, along with a great degree of indolence, can justify this aversion to metaphysics. For…

— David Hume

Well, I think both Russia and China have a very strong aversion to interference in internal affairs.

— Hillary Clinton

Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A gentleman's park is my aversion. It is not beauty because it is not nature.

— John Constable

The planes of light give you the power to rise above circumstance, the power to rise above your desires and your aversions.

— Frederick Lenz

The experience of light in a very pure form always creates happiness. The experience of desire and aversion tends to create unhappiness.

— Frederick Lenz

I always had an aversion to your apostles of freedom; each but sought for himself freedom to do what he liked.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

[Peace] cannot be honorable or secure, if the sovereign betrays a pusillanimous aversion to war.

— Edward Gibbon

I cannot but bless the memory of Julius Caesar, for the great esteem he expressed for fat men and his aversion to…

— David Hume

“He has a frightening aversion to text messaging in general. "It's a phone. It's for making calls, not for writing novels".”

— Patrick Carman

To cultivate equanimity we practice catching ourselves when we feel attraction or aversion, before it hardens into grasping or negativity.

— Pema Chodron

The way to infinite joy is through the elimination of desire, - no attachments, no aversions.

— Lester Levenson

“It’s not really rewarding trying to fathom what people will think. Particularly people who have demonstrated a lifetime aversion to thinking.”

— Bette Greene

In Tantric Buddhism our feeling is that there is no problem with the sensual world unless you have a tremendous attraction or…

— Frederick Lenz