Avoid Quotes

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A society whose principles are acquisition, profit, and property produces a social character oriented around having, and once the dominant pattern is established, nobody wants… — Erich Fromm
I avoid grandiose plans. I start with a small piece that I can do. I go to the root of the problem and then work… — Muhammad Yunus
Avoid the precepts of those thinkers whose reasoning is not confirmed by experience. — Leonardo da Vinci
Can you avoid knowledge? You cannot! Can you avoid technology? You cannot! Things are going to go ahead in spite of ethics, in spite of… — Jose Manuel Rodriguez Delgado
Avoid 'shoulding' on others and yourself! — Marshall B. Rosenberg
The only way to avoid all frightening choices is to leave society and become a hermit, and that is a frightening choice. — Richard Bach
Whoever then wishes to be free, let him neither wish for anything nor avoid anything which depends on others: if he does not observe this… — Epictetus
It is difficult to imagine how any behavior in the presence of another person can avoid being a communication of one's own view of the… — Paul Watzlawick
The only way to avoid cannon-shot is to fall down. No such way to be freed from temptation as to keep low. — Thomas Brooks
Avoid a sugared gospel as you would shun sugar of lead. Seek the gospel which rips up and tears and cuts and wounds and hacks… — Charles Spurgeon
It is not fear that stops you from doing the brave and true thing in your daily life. Rather, the problem is avoidance. You want… — Harriet Lerner
Anxiety, heartbreak, and tenderness mark the in-between state. It's the kind of place we usually want to avoid. The challenge is to stay in the… — Pema Chodron
The dialectical or ecological approach asserts that creating the world is involved in our every act. It is impossible for us to operate in our… — Wes Jackson
Avoid food products containing ingredients that are A) unfamiliar B) unpronounceable C) more than five in number or that include D) high-fructose corn syrup — Michael Pollan
Avoid foods you see advertised on television. — Michael Pollan
Avoid food products containing ingredients that a third-grader cannot pronounce. — Michael Pollan
The quality of business communications has become poorer in recent years as people avoid phone calls and face-to-face meetings, I can only assume, in some… — Richard Branson
If people are going to do things which have certain consequences that they would rather avoid, they should do whatever they need to avoid the… — Tony Abbott
You call me a misanthrope because I avoid society. You err; I love society. Yet in order not to hate people, I must avoid their… — Caspar David Friedrich
Plus, there were so many pianos in my house, so I couldn't really avoid it — Vanessa Carlton

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