Eschew Quotes
19 quotes by 19 authors
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There are certain things that our age needs, and certain things that it should avoid. It needs compassion and a wish that mankind should be…
— Bertrand Russell
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Eschew the monumental. Shun the Epic. All the guys who can paint great big pictures can paint great small ones.
— Ernest Hemingway
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Amateurs... venture into scenes that a writer with more experience (and more professional concern) would bypass or eschew altogether.
— Norman Mailer
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It is easy to say something new, if all senses one will eschew. But hardly ever is found, that the new is also sound.
— Albert Einstein
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Commencement oratory must eschew anything that smacks of partisan politics, political preference, sex, religion or unduly firm opinion. Nonetheless, there must be a speech: Speeches…
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected.
— Chuck Jones
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One colossal advantage of being in extra innings is that you can tell it like it is, say what you think, and largely eschew political…
— Bob Lutz
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Enjoy the necessities of life but eschew the excesses.
— Ian Gardner
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When you doubt between words, use the plainest, the commonest, the most idiomatic. Eschew fine words as you would rouge; love simple ones as you…
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
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Feminism's failings do not mean we should eschew feminism entirely. People do terrible things all the time, but we don't regularly disown our humanity. We…
— Roxane Gay
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Eschew wicked company and associate with saintly persons. Acquire virtue day and night, and always meditate on that which is eternal forgetting that which is…
— Chanakya
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Curiously, only in sports do we agree to eschew technological advances, making rules, for example, to limit the power potential of baseball bats. We understand…
— Gene Logsdon
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Eschew all those beastly adjectives...
— Roald Dahl
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See the Divine in everyone. Eschew hatred and ill will. After years of devotion, many still lack a broad outlook and an all-encompassing love.
— Sathya Sai Baba
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An education which does not teach us to discriminate between good and bad, to assimilate the one and eschew the other, is a misnomer
— Mahatma Gandhi
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We must eschew anything trivial. We must embrace all that is frivolous.... Trivial things take up all your time and dull your senses, whereas frivolity…
— Cynthia Heimel
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Youth is an intoxication without wine, someone says. Life is an intoxication. The only sober man is the melancholiac, who, disenchanted, looks at life, sees…
— W.N.P. Barbellion
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I myself eschew all stimulants. I also practically abstain from meat.
— Nikola Tesla
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When I say that George Eliot has long been my hero, I mean to include those aspects of her thought and temperament that have been…
— Cynthia Ozick
Who Wrote These Eschew Quotes
19 authors contributed a total of 19 Eschew Quotes as follows: