“Two types of avoidance cause problems for people: avoiding pleasure and avoiding pain.” — Todd Kashdan Copy Share Image
“We numb our minds and heart so one need not be broken and the other need not be bothered.” — Peggy Haymes Copy Share Image
A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“The ‘easy way’ is our laziness trying to find a solution by ‘working hard’ to side-step the problem.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
At home in Ireland, there's a habit of avoidance, an ironical attitude towards the authority figure. — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
No precautions, and no precautionary principle, can avoid problems that we do not yet foresee. We need a stance of problem-fixing, not… — David Deutsch Copy Share Image
“If you avoid your truthful emotions and pain you will implode and contract into a diminished and feeble state.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
Computer users soon learn that the miraculous powers of personal computers are based on avoidance of error. — Robert Burchfield Copy Share Image
“Collect yourself: to smother what you feel, recall to order, summon in one place; making, like Orpheus, a system against loss.” — Ruth Padel Copy Share Image
“Bravery is the choice to show up and listen to another person, be it a loved one or perceived foe, even when… — Alaric Hutchinson Copy Share Image
“I’m like a fish in a pool, turning quickly to avoid what challenges it. My only decision is whether to go right… — Doug Cooper Copy Share Image
“We play phone tag, back and forth, the kind of tag where it's clear we're avoiding each other, where no one wants… — Adam Berlin Copy Share Image
“Business crises energize me. Personal crises devastate me. The doctors call it an avoidance tendency. (Mirena to Eve)” — J.D. Robb Copy Share Image
For me, wearing a tie is a pleasure, a recherche one but a pleasure nonetheless. You could say that I'm avoiding tie… — Peter York Copy Share Image
Business of blurring is fantastic. They both are playing the politics of avoidance. They avoid all the issues on corporate power, Iraq,… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
I write at a standing desk, which has helped me be much more productive and solved some back problems, but mostly all… — Paolo Bacigalupi Copy Share Image
“People like to believe that they have several options open to them, but this is only a justification for attempting to avoid… — Théun Mares Copy Share Image
“I must stop remembering. I must keep them in a faraway place. The more I remember, the greater my agony. These thoughts… — Sonali Deraniyagala Copy Share Image
I am not in favour of the takeover of excellent and strategically important British companies by struggling foreign firms whose actions are… — David Sainsbury, Baron Sainsbury of Turville Copy Share Image
My commodity as a writer, whatever I'm writing about, is me. And your commodity is you. Don't alter your voice to fit… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
The secret of the enjoyment of pleasure is to know when to stop. Man doesn't learn this secret easily, but to shun… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
“Changes in Meaning: Finally, chronically traumatized people lose faith that good things can happen and people can be kind and trustworthy. They… — Suzette Boon Copy Share Image
The terror in which English capitalists now stand of organized proletarian resistance gives to the naturally protected craft organizations the power to… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
There is always great beauty, not of images, feeling or thought. Beauty is neither thought nor feeling; it has nothing whatsoever to… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
I cannot emphasize enough how wrongheaded this is. Withholding criticism and ignoring differences are racism in its purest form. Yet these cultural… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
“...TV was entertainment of the last resort. There was nothing on during the day in the summer other than game shows and… — Pete Hautman Copy Share Image
All progressive thought has assumed tacitly that human beings desire nothing beyond ease, security and avoidance of pain ... Hitler, because in… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I read recently in an article by G.K. Chesterton, that sex without gestation and parturition is like blowing the trumpets and waving… — Dora Russell Copy Share Image
“Living with life is very hard. Mostly we do our best to stifle life--to be tame or to be wanton. To be… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
