Aversion Quotes

149 quotes by 128 authors

And I not only inherited an aversion to the nine-to-five routine, but the sense from my parents that being bored and boring is the worst… — Christian Bale
I will not pretend to justify this espionage I carried on, and I will say openly that all these signs of a life full of… — Hermann Hesse
What I build upon I shall be told is a folly that wise men are not guilty of: I own it; but whilst it proceeds… — Sylvester Graham
The empty mind - the pure mind - is not a blank, zero-land, where you're not feeling or caring about anything. It's an effulgence of… — Ajahn Sumedho
Always recognize the dreamlike qualities of life and reduce attachment and aversion.Â Practice good-heartedness toward all beings.Â Be loving and compassionate, no matter what others… — Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche
When you give in to aversion and anger, itâ€™s as though, having decided to kill someone by throwing him into a river, you wrap your… — Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche
What I learned about them, I liked. But it also seemed that the liberal line was not entirely correct, for it was obvious that racial… — David Duke
You can't ever get everything you want. It is impossible. Luckily, there is another option: You can learn to control your mind, to step outside… — Henepola Gunaratana
Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires. — Jonathan Swift
Business was his aversion; Pleasure was his business. — Maria Edgeworth
I was assigned to the Waffen-SS but was never involved in any crime. Besides, I always felt the need to write about my experiences in… — Gunter Grass
NASA's myriad failures are in many ways the natural consequence of a catastrophic combination of bureaucracy, monopoly, and a calcifying aversion to the kind of… — Burt Rutan
The reason a person is in a particular state of mind is primarily because of attraction and aversion. Attraction and aversion cause us to format… — Frederick Lenz
I believe we are in a world where innovation in stuff was outlawed. It was basically outlawed in the last 40 years - part of… — Peter Thiel
I don't really have an aversion to watching myself. I think I've been doing it for long enough that I have a system of separating… — Mae Whitman
There are people in the Himalayas who are thousands of years old. But that's just a power, you see. It would seem to me that… — Frederick Lenz
I have a true aversion to teaching. The perennial business of a professor of mathematics is only to teach the ABC of his science; most… — Carl Friedrich Gauss
My only aversion to vice, is the price. — Victor Buono
The funniest thing is not who influenced me positively, but who influenced me negatively. I had such an aversion to what Busby Berkeley did; in… — Stanley Donen
The human species is often amazingly inventive and industrious but at the same time profoundly lazy. It's very clear that we humans don't like to… — Charles Petzold

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