Quotes with avoid

  • I've tried as much as possible to avoid the standard nine-to-five thing. I've tried to organize my life so that I can move around, change the rhythm and the tempo.
  • All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.
  • American couples have gone to such lengths to avoid the interference of in-laws that they have to pay marriage counselors to interfere between them.
  • A person who has been punished is not less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.
  • Rather than engage in the sort of selective retention that so many investors tend to do and pretend mistakes never happened, I prefer to 'own' them. This allows me to learn from them and, with any luck, avoid making the same errors again.
  • As a rule, I try to avoid the French Quarter because of the crowds, especially Bourbon Street. But hey, some people love it. A great, wild, adult thing to see is the costume competition in front of the bar Oz on Bourbon early morning on Fat Tuesday.
  • A culture must be reasonably stable, but it must also change, and it will presumably be strongest if it can avoid excessive respect for tradition and fear of novelty on the one hand and excessively rapid change on the other.
  • In real life I avoid all parties altogether, but on paper I can mingle with the best of them.
  • Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing.
  • A ''No'' uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a ''Yes'' merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.
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  • Fred A. Allen A celebrity is a person who works hard all of their life to become well known, and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.
    Fred A. Allen
    American comic (1894 - 1956)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • B. F. Skinner A culture must be reasonably stable, but it must also change, and it will presumably be strongest if it can avoid excessive respect for tradition and fear of novelty on the one hand and excessively rapid change on the other.
    B. F. Skinner
    American psychologist, behaviorist and author (1904 - 1990)
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  • Abbie Hoffman Avoid all needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.
    Abbie Hoffman
    American political and social activist (1936 - 1989)
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  • Percy Bysshe Shelley The Galilean is not a favorite of mine. So far from owing him any thanks for his favor, I cannot avoid confessing that I owe a secret grudge to his carpentership.
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    English poet (1792 - 1822)
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  • Horace You must avoid sloth, that wicked siren.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Mahatma Gandhi A ''No'' uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a ''Yes'' merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Simone Weil A doctrine serves no purpose in itself, but it is indispensable to have one if only to avoid being deceived by false doctrines.
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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  • Joseph Addison A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart, and his next to escape the censures of the world.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • B. F. Skinner A person who has been punished is not less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.
    B. F. Skinner
    American psychologist, behaviorist and author (1904 - 1990)
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  • Thomas Hardy A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.
    Thomas Hardy
    British writer and poet (1840 - 1928)
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  • Satchel Paige Ain't no man can avoid being born average, but there ain't no man got to be common.
    Satchel Paige
    African-American baseball player (1906 - 1982)
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  • Ralph Ransom All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.
    Ralph Ransom
    American art painter
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  • William Blake Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • Florence King American couples have gone to such lengths to avoid the interference of in-laws that they have to pay marriage counselors to interfere between them.
    Florence King
    American Author, Critic (1936 - 2016)
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  • Edmund Burke And having looked to government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them. To avoid that evil, government will redouble the causes of it; and then it will become inveterate and incurable.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Laura Riding Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.
    Laura Riding
     
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  • Bryan Batt As a rule, I try to avoid the French Quarter because of the crowds, especially Bourbon Street. But hey, some people love it. A great, wild, adult thing to see is the costume competition in front of the bar Oz on Bourbon early morning on Fat Tuesday.
    Bryan Batt
    American actor (1963 - )
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  • Horace Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears are open to hear, but they will not keep what is entrusted to them.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Jean de la Bruyère Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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