Avoidance Quotes

99 quotes by 98 authors

Much of the research into humans' risk-avoidance machinery shows that it is antiquated and unfit for the modern world; it is made to counter repeatable… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
I cannot emphasize enough how wrongheaded this is. Withholding criticism and ignoring differences are racism in its purest form. Yet these cultural experts fail to… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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
Mental anguish always results from the avoidance of legitimate suffering. — Stefan Molyneux
Holiness is the sum of a million little things â€” the avoidance of little evils and little foibles, the setting aside of little bits of… — Kevin DeYoung
Golf is the ultimate avoidance activity for the dysfunctional dad. A game so nonsensically difficult, so pointless, so irrationally time consuming, the word golf itself… — Jerry Seinfeld
Self-denial is taught much better by inspiring the love of our neighbor, than by the prohibition of innocent comforts and pleasures. Spirituality is much better… — Harriet Martineau
No precautions, and no precautionary principle, can avoid problems that we do not yet foresee. We need a stance of problem-fixing, not just problem-avoidance. — David Deutsch
Avoidance behavior is a response designed to protect the infant from behavioral disorganization. If we transfer this concept to adult life, we can see that… — Anthony Storr
Acting is the art of speaking in a loud, clear voice and the avoidance of bumping into the furniture. — Alfred Lunt
This avoidance of the difficult things of Scripture â€” of sinfulness and hell and Godâ€™s notable severity â€” is idolatrous and cowardly. If a man… — Matt Chandler
Avoidance doesnâ€™t solve anything; it merely serves as a temporary salve. — Tony Dungy
God planted fear in the soul as truly as he planted hope and courage. It is a kind of bell or gong, which rings the… — Henry Ward Beecher
All progressive thought has assumed tacitly that human beings desire nothing beyond ease, security and avoidance of pain ... Hitler, because in his joyless mind… — George Orwell
Conflict can and should be handled constructively; when it is, relationships benefit. Conflict avoidance is *not* the hallmark of a good relationship. On the contrary,… — Harriet B. Braiker
All work is the avoidance of harder work. — James Richardson
The really important thing in life is not the avoidance of mistakes, but the obedience of faith. By obedience, the man is led step by… — Paul Tournier
But avoidance allows you to believe that you're making all kinds of strides when you're not. — Liz Murray
Awe is not a very comfortable standpoint for many people... Hence, all about us today, we see avoidance of awe-by burying ourselves in materialist science,… — Kirk J. Schneider
Avoidance of mistakes is the beginning, as it is the end, of mastery in chess. — Eugene Znosko-Borovsky

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