Avoid Quotes

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Every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid. — John Keats
The real reason Milton went blind was to avoid reading unsolicited manuscripts. — Rita Mae Brown
If you cannot bear the silence and the darkness, do not go there; if you dislike black night and yawning chasms, never make them your… — Loren Eiseley
O, God assist our side: at least, avoid assisting the enemy and leave the rest to me — Aldo Leopold
In prosperity let us most carefully avoid pride, disdain, and arrogance. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Imagine if you could actually be that happy? That would be powerful, man. People would be tunneling under the street to avoid you. They'd go… — Jim Carrey
Above all avoid taking the advice of men who have no brains and do not know what they are talking about. — Sherwood Anderson
The only time a politico will try to avoid playing the blame game is when they or theirs are to blame. — Jon Stewart
We cannot avoid our lives. We have to face our lives, young or old, rich or poor. Whatever happens, we cannot save ourselves from our… — Chogyam Trungpa
It is harder to avoid censure than to gain applause; for this may be done by one great or wise action in an age. But… — David Hume
When you have God come amongst you to support and sustain you, why grovel through crude vulgar entities? Avoid places where they bargain in terms… — Sathya Sai Baba
We got into music to avoid a job, and get lots of girls. — Paul McCartney
Today must not be a souvenir of yesterday, and so the struggle is everlasting. Who am I today? What do I see today? How shall… — Robert Henri
The real test is not whether you avoid failure, because you won't. It's whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether… — Barack Obama
The spot paintings, the spin paintings, they're all a mechanical way to avoid the actual guy in a room, myself, with a blank canvas. — Damien Hirst
The avenues in my neighborhood are Pride, Covetousness and Lust; the cross streets are Anger, Gluttony, Envy and Sloth. I live over on Sloth, and… — John Chancellor
Positive self-esteem operates as, in effect, the immune system of the consciousness, providing resistance, strength, and a capacity for regeneration. When self-esteem is low, our… — Nathaniel Branden
Renunciation - that is the great fact we all, individuals and classes, have to learn. In trying to avoid it we bring misery to ourselves… — Beatrice Webb
The drive to resist compulsion is more important in wild animals than sex, food, or water... The drive for competence or to resist compulsion is… — Martin Seligman
If you begin with the middle-tone and work up from it toward the darks so that you deal last with your highest lights and darkest… — John Singer Sargent

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