Avoid Doing Quotes
33 quotes by 32 authors
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I can do only one thing at a time, but I can avoid doing many things simultaneously.
— Ashleigh Brilliant
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Those who either from imprudence or want of sagacity avoid doing so, are always overwhelmed with servitude and poverty; for faithful servants are always servants,…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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We all fall into our habits, our routines, our ruts. They're used quite often, consciously or unconsciously, to avoid living, to avoid doing the messy…
— Andrew Stanton
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Avoid doing what you would blame others for doing.
— Thales
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I had a vivid imagination. Not only could I put myself in the other person's place, but I could not avoid doing so. My sympathies…
— Clarence Darrow
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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
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But I find the best things I do, I do when I'm trying to avoid doing something else I'm supposed to be doing. You know,…
— Norton Juster
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If I fear to hold another to the highest goal because it is so much easier to avoid doing so, then I know nothing of…
— Amy Carmichael
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...wisdom is in large part the knowledge of how to avoid doing dumb things, and thus grows globally as a function of the published inventory…
— Tim Bray
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It feels a little silly to annotate a game in which I didn't make a single move on my own, just following my preparation all…
— Jan Gustafsson
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Careful observation will confirm that virtually all spontaneous parapsychological events occur through some form of sleight of mind. It is invariably something hovering just below…
— Peter J. Carroll
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Life is short and the time of death is uncertain; so apply yourself to meditation. Avoid doing evil, and acquire merit, to the best of…
— Milarepa
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It is best if we do not listen to or look at the person whom we consider to be the cause of our anger. Like…
— Nhat Hanh
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I also tried to avoid doing obvious dance records.
— Boy George
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If you choose not to act, you have little chance of success. What’s more, when you choose to act, you’re able to succeed more frequently…
— Katty Kay
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I've never filed a patent lawsuit. I hope never to file a patent lawsuit. That may be unrealistic, but it would be great if I…
— Nathan Myhrvold
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When I was a child I wanted to be a petrol pump attendant. I suppose you have all sorts of thoughts as a child and…
— Saffron Burrows
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Conversely, I came to realize that being good at something is hardly a reason to avoid doing it.
— Eric Allin Cornell
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I will not avoid doing what I think is right, though it should draw on me the whole artillery that falsehood and malice can invent,…
— William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield
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I don't have any respect at all for the scum-bags who went to Canada to avoid the draft or to avoid doing their fair share.
— R. Lee Ermey
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