We have two strategies for coping; the way of avoidance or the way of attention. — Marilyn Ferguson Copy Share Image
“Our biggest problems arise from the avoidance of smaller ones."---” — Jeremy Caulfield Copy Share Image
“Always focus on the solution, avoid being consumed by undesirable circumstances.” — Steven Redhead Copy Share Image
Avoidance of mistakes is the beginning, as it is the end, of mastery in chess. — Eugene Znosko-Borovsky Copy Share Image
“The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that carries any reward. ” — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
“People will seek the ends of the galaxy to avoid that which they need most.” — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
I have a certain avoidance of reality that makes fantasy an ideal choice for me. — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
Creative avoidance is the type of procrastination that affects home business entrepreneurs the most. It is unconsciously filling our day with trivial,… — Rory Vaden Copy Share Image
Artists should be aware that petty stroking could be the source of arrested productivity. An artist's job includes the avoidance of premature… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
In short, the greatest contribution to real security that science can make is through the extension of the scientific method to the… — Edward Condon Copy Share Image
“My sister having so much to do, was going to church vicariously, that is to say, Joe and I were going.” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Once an emotion is toxically shame bound, one feels numb. The emotional avoidance is sealed by learning to avoid the avoidance.” — John Bradshaw Copy Share Image
You can gain power by avoidance. You can gain power by doing certain things. You can gain much more power by meditating. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The primary dues a writer or any artist pays is to remain sentient, and to forfeit the illusionary luxury of such anesthetics… — Vanna Bonta Copy Share Image
“I would rather make the wrong decision and correct it, rather than make no decision which leaves me nothing to correct.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
I've been trying to avoid my problems, and I don't know what to do. I get high, but when I come down,… — Eugene Nathaniel Butler Copy Share Image
“The desire to be without core emotional experiences is just another form of craving. Using spiritual endeavor to bypass emotions is just… — Josh Korda Copy Share Image
Self-denial is taught much better by inspiring the love of our neighbor, than by the prohibition of innocent comforts and pleasures. Spirituality… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
The speech we hear is an indication of that which we don't hear. It is a necessary avoidance, a violent, sly, and… — Harold Pinter Copy Share Image
Conflict can and should be handled constructively; when it is, relationships benefit. Conflict avoidance is *not* the hallmark of a good relationship.… — Harriet B. Braiker Copy Share Image
“To ‘pretend’ is to say that I’m willing to waste the precious energy that it takes to pretend, and I’m unwilling to… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
An age at which many men are not quite common - at which they are hopeful of achievement, resolute in avoidance, thinking… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Much of the research into humans' risk-avoidance machinery shows that it is antiquated and unfit for the modern world; it is made… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
In the theory of psycho-analysis we have no hesitation in assuming that the course taken by mental events is automatically regulated by… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
True listening is never self-effacement. We bring the whole self to the process, rather than denying self. When we truly listen, we… — T. Thorn Coyle Copy Share Image
“The scientific study of suffering inevitably raises questions of causation, and with these, issues of blame and responsibility. Historically, doctors have highlighted… — Bessel A. van der Kolk Copy Share Image
“Grandma Donna passed the oyster stuffing and asked my father straight out what he was working on, it being so obvious his… — Karen Joy Fowler Copy Share Image
“I worry about you. You’re good with people, I’ve seen it. You like them. But there’s a limit for you.” He opened… — Kij Johnson Copy Share Image
As any sin passes through its stages from temptation, to toleration, to approval, its name is first euphemized, then avoided, then forgotten.… — J. Budziszewski Copy Share Image
“Alterations in regulation of affect (emotion) and impulse: Almost all people who are seriously traumatized have problems in tolerating and regulating their… — Suzette Boon Copy Share Image
“My mother's mouth drops. 'Emmy...don't say those things Emmy. Remember, we don't talk about those things.' 'Yes Mom. I remember. That's why… — Emily Andrews Copy Share Image
