Avoidance Quote by Peter Straub Download Open image “Intellectual labor is a common technique for the avoidance of thinking.” — Peter Straub ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Avoidance Common Intellectual Intellectualism Labor Technique Thinking
Intellectual work is an act of creation. It is as if the mental image that is studied over a period of time were to… — Santiago Ramon y Cajal Copy Share Image
Plain intellectual thinking is the peak of ignorance because all that you will know is to play with a few aspects and make others… — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
In the practice of art... it is necessary to keep a watchful and jealous eye over ourselves; idleness, assuming the specious disguise of industry...… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
“Productive thinking requires a great deal of discipline and skill; nether of which comes automatically.” — Johnson C. Philip Copy Share Image
“If someone rationally rejects your thought process , he or she is teaching you to think more intellectually in order to fulfill more rigorous… — Saaif Alam Copy Share Image
Thinking is the hardest and most exhausting of all labor; and hence many people shrink from it. — Wallace D. Wattles Copy Share Image
It hinders the creative work of the mind if the intellect examines too closely the ideas as they pour in. — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
If I'm thinking about work, it's easier to block the irrational thoughts out of my mind. — Gianluca Vialli Copy Share Image
As soon as I started writing Julia, by which I mean while writing its first sentence, I felt a sudden, reassuring charge of excitement.… — Peter Straub Copy Share Image
An average working day begins at 8 or 9 am, includes an hour for lunch, and ends at 5 or 6 pm. — Peter Straub Copy Share Image
However, I think I managed to reach a new level with Koko, and I will always be grateful for the experience. — Peter Straub Copy Share Image
Everyone wants to get better as they go along, but sometimes it's all you can do to stay consistent. — Peter Straub Copy Share Image
Close your mouth and get out of the way, because here comes Kelly Link, than whom no one is better. — Peter Straub Copy Share Image
On gym days, I don't get to my desk until 4 in the afternoon, and everything except bedtime and the appointment with the liquid… — Peter Straub Copy Share Image
“Human beings across every culture I know about require such stories, stories with cool winds and wood smoke. They speak to something deep within… — Peter Straub Copy Share Image
God, in the orthodox view, causes famine, plague, and flood. Was God evil? Evil is a convenient fiction. — Peter Straub Copy Share Image
“I know this doesn't make sense, but if we ever did this before, exactly this, with you sitting over there and me here, in… — Peter Straub Copy Share Image
Unmarried couples should get married - that's an excellent tax avoidance measure, if a bit drastic. — John Whiting Copy Share Image
“Collect yourself: to smother what you feel, recall to order, summon in one place; making, like Orpheus, a system against loss.” — Ruth Padel Copy Share Image
“People spend entire lifetimes trying to avoid the things that have already happened.” — Silvia Hartmann Copy Share Image
America is not static. America is striving. And sometimes, America requires critique. Jingoism is an avoidance of realism. You can simultaneously love and be… — Charles M. Blow Copy Share Image
I am not in favour of the takeover of excellent and strategically important British companies by struggling foreign firms whose actions are fuelled by… — David Sainsbury, Baron Sainsbury of Turville Copy Share Image
Most human behavior is nothing other than the avoidance of pain and the pursuit of pleasure. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
You can gain power by avoidance. You can gain power by doing certain things. You can gain much more power by meditating. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I've been trying to avoid my problems, and I don't know what to do. I get high, but when I come down, my problems… — Eugene Nathaniel Butler Copy Share Image
All the textbooks talk about avoidance as a classic hallmark of anxiety disorder. So you need a therapist who is sympathetic and understanding but… — Scott Stossel Copy Share Image
I read recently in an article by G.K. Chesterton, that sex without gestation and parturition is like blowing the trumpets and waving the flags… — Dora Russell Copy Share Image
Be truthful... and pay attention. I would also recommend the avoidance of credit cards. — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
