Avoided Quotes - Page 5

• The war you feel within - that restlessness, the unending uncertainty - is not to be dismissed, avoided, hated. That internal conflict is not dark, it is a beaming light trying to focus you, the rolling thunderous call of courage, the rays of greatness seeking to explode beyond your skin to touch once more the Spirit of Possibility.

  Brendon Burchard

  War, Dark, Greatness

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• I've avoided work all my life, you see. So, I'm like a bee. I go from flower to flower.

  Malachy McCourt

  Flower, Bees

  Source: bigthink.com

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• What I remove from my writing is linear context. It's not really important to me, because it doesn't give me chills to see, "you flip the latch and the lock opens and then you can open the top of the chest and inside the chest is this." That doesn't give me chills, to think in that vein. So I've always kind of avoided it.

  Doseone

  Writing, Thinking, Giving

  Interview with Chris Dahlen, pitchfork.com. March 6, 2005.

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• I don't care if New York avoided bankruptcy by substituting tourism for the garment business.

  Fran Lebowitz

  New York, Tourism, Care

  "The Voice: Fran Lebowitz". Interview With Francesco Clemente, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 11, 2016.

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• Technology was something I avoided when I started out - I didn't even have electric guitars. Only played acoustic.

  Beck

  Technology, Guitar, Acoustics

  "Beck: 15 Years". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. August 17, 2011.

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• I was shocked to find out how many deaths occurred due to fires across the country and how simply they could've been avoided. Knowing how to get out of our homes is important, especially in less than 2 minutes.

  Frankie J. Grande

  Country, Home, Knowing

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• I have successfully avoided being stereotyped into a specific category. I've worked very hard at that, and I'm proud of not being easily lumped into anybody's preconceived notions or expectations.

  Amber Heard

  Expectations, Proud, Categories

  "20Q: Amber Heard". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.playboy.com. August 10, 2011.

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• I feel vulnerable every day to the grace of God as expressed in every living thing. I feel vulnerable to the astonishing beauty of being alive and to Mother Nature. I feel positive when I feel vulnerable, because it's another reminder that it's not all about me and about my ego. And I actually think it's courageous to be vulnerable, and it's not something to be avoided.

  Brad Willis

  Mother, Thinking, Grace

  "Warrior Pose: A Conversation with Bhava Ram". Interview with Zoë Kors, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• It's hard to fully enjoy your time on Earth without having your health. Ask anyone battling health issues - most especially, issues that could have been avoided. For me, I read food labels, I seek out places to purchase the best-quality foods available to me, and I inquire about how they are produced (meats and fruits/vegetables).

  Adam Rodriguez

  Vegetables, Issues, Quality

  "Origin Series: Empire Actor Adam Rodriguez On Reading Food Labels, Three Phrases to Live By, to Win for Love, Forward Thinking, and How We’re All in This Together". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. November 16, 2015.

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• Service disruptions have to be avoided or at least resolved as quickly as possible. When the Internet goes down, consumers don't notice the difference between a technical malfunction, an act of sabotage by hackers or a military attack.

  Thomas de Maiziere

  Military, Differences, Internet

  "SPIEGEL Interview with German Interior Minister: 'WikiLeaks Is Annoying, But Not a Threat'". Interview with Holger Stark and Marcel Rosenbach,, www.spiegel.de. December 20, 2010.

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• After The Bomb we developed a fairly good system for moving food around and have avoided the kind of massive famines that attract the media. Although of course we've had a fair number of them, particularly in Africa, since The Bomb was written. But we have had a steady level of attrition of malnutrition and malnutrition-related disease. Probably something on the order of 5 to 10 million people starve to death each year, but they're spread out; they're not dramatic news events.

  Paul R. Ehrlich

  Moving, Media, Order

  Interview with Jesse Finfrock, www.motherjones.com. 2008.

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• One should believe only what can be chosen to be true or just. Irrational (or unjustified) beliefs should be avoided because they can have disastrous practical consequences.

  Mario Bunge

  Believe, Belief, Should

  Source: deutsche-denker.de

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• Confession of one's guilt purifies and uplifts. Its suppression is degrading and should always be avoided.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Uplifting, Guilt, Purity

  Mahatma Gandhi (1984). “Collected Works”

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• I've always avoided those sorts of self-assessments because if you give yourself a 10 out of 10 people think you're a big head, if you give yourself a 6 out of 10 they think you're plagued with self-doubt, so I'm just not going to rate myself.

  Tony Abbott

  Thinking, Assessment, Self

  "Grattan on Friday: In Conversation with Tony Abbott". Interview with Michelle Grattan, theconversation.com. March 27, 2014.

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• A war must be avoided at all costs. Russia is against any type of use of external force.

  Vladimir Yakunin

  War, Russia, Cost

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The whole economy of this lower world proves that it is by labor and perseverance only that good is obtained and evil is avoided.

  Patrick Henry

  Perseverance, War, Evil

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• Because the global ecosystem is a connected whole, in which nothing can be gained or lost and which is not subject to over-all improvement, anything extracted from it by human effort must be replaced. Payment of this price cannot be avoided; it can only be delayed. The present environmental crisis is a warning that we have delayed nearly too long.

  Barry Commoner

  Ecosystems, Long, Effort

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• Many faux pas of fashion can be avoided if you curb your instinctive desire to buy things with your heart instead of your head.

  Edith Head

  Fashion, Heart, Desire

  Edith Head, Joe Hyams (1967). “HOW TO DRESS FOR SUCCESS”

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• Do not let the fame come near to you! Protect your freedom! Fame must be avoided so as to breathe freely! Stay in the shadow to work comfortably! Away from the crowds, in the heart of calmness, there is wonderful peace of mind that no fame can ever give you!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Peace, Freedom, Heart

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• Never call yourself a philosopher, nor talk a great deal among the unlearned about theorems, but act conformably to them. Thus, at an entertainment, don't talk how persons ought to eat, but
  eat as you ought. For remember that in this manner Socrates also universally avoided all ostentation.

  Epictetus

  Entertainment, Philosopher, Remember

  Epictetus (2012). “The Handbook of Epictetus”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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• Ever since time began (when was that, I wonder?), it's been moving ever forward without a moment's rest. And one of the privileges given to those who've avoided dying young is the blessed
  right to grow old.

  Haruki Murakami

  Moving, Blessed, Dying

  "What I Talk About When I Talk About Running". Book by Haruki Murakami, 2007.

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• Never inject a man into the top, if it can be avoided. In a big organization, to have to do that, I think, is a reflection on management, Of course there are always exceptional cases.

  Alfred P. Sloan

  Reflection, Men, Thinking

  Alfred P. Sloan, Jr. (1941). “Adventures of a White-Collar Man”

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• Misfortunes, in fine, cannot be avoided; but they may be sweetened, if not overcome, and our lives made happy by philosophy.

  Seneca the Younger

  Philosophy, Overcoming, May

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• Children are like a mirror. They help you see yourself and all the flaws that you and your partner might have avoided looking at earlier.

  Virginia Clinton Kelley

  Children, Mirrors, Might

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• If it has to be that wars and battles are begun for many reasons and quarrels, then they should also be avoided and shunned by better and more valid reasons.

  Christine de Pizan

  War, Battle, Reason

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