Avoiding Quotes - Page 12

• The wise expect nothing, hope for nothing, thus avoiding all disappointment and anxiety.

  Alexandra David-Neel

  Wise, Disappointment, Expectations

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• There are ways of avoiding becoming tabloid fodder and therefore giving people license to pry into your private life. And there's a distinction between being an actor and being a celebrity. You may become a celebrity through acting, but you don't need to do so.

  Damian Lewis

  People, Giving, Acting

  "Shooting star". Interview with Jay Rayner, www.theguardian.com. March 10, 2002.

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• Virtue consists in avoiding vice, and is the highest wisdom.
  [Lat., Virtus est vitium fugere, et sapientia prima.]

  Horace

  Vices, Virtue, Highest

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• Actually, when you get into your sixties and above, you want to think about exercise differently. It's not just about you know cardiovascular or lifting weights. It's also about avoiding accidents.

  Dan Buettner

  Exercise, Thinking, Sixty

  Source: www.cbc.ca

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• When I was 18 years old, in a more innocent time, my first backpacking trip through Europe, I sneaked into the Temple of Saturn in the Roman Forum after nightfall and spent several hours in there avoiding the guards patrolling.

  Guy Gavriel Kay

  Years, Europe, Saturn

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• I've spent eight years in Congress avoiding moral language. I represent a swing district. I believe profoundly in not challenging the motives of your opponents. But more and more, we're in a world where leaders have to speak up, and speak in strong moral terms.

  Jim Himes

  Strong, Believe, Leader

  Source: www.slate.com

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• There is a wise old saying 'Eat it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without'. Thrift is a practice of not wasting anything. Some people are able to get by because of the absence of expense. They have their shoes resoled, they patch, they mend, they sew, and they save money. They avoid installment buying, and make purchases only after saving enough to pay cash, thus avoiding interest charges. Frugality means to practice careful economy.

  James E. Faust

  Wise, Mean, Practice

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• Nature places a simple constraint on those who leave the flock to go their own way: they get eaten. In society it's a bit more complicated. Nonetheless the admonition stands: avoiding the unknown has considerable survival value. Society, nature, and artmaking tend to produce guarded creatures.

  David Bayles

  Simple, Survival, Way

  David Bayles, Ted Orland (2001). “Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking”, p.68, Image Continuum Press

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• We have to be alert to the way brands behave and misbehave. We have to reward the good ones with our loyalty and punish the bad ones by avoiding them.

  Wally Olins

  Loyalty, Rewards, Way

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• I was incredibly depressed and I found myself avoiding doing interviews where my [20-something daughters] could hear me - or leaving books on the coffee table they could see.

  John H Richardson

  Daughter, Coffee, Book

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• It's my genius plan of avoiding any career momentum whatsoever. Definitely the pop-culture thing is something I've avoided in my act. It's just too transitory and ephemeral.

  Christian Finnegan

  Genius

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Sex can be renounced -- but sexuality cannot. We can't avoid sexual issues by avoiding sex, or by dismissing its importance, or by showing disrespect to our own or other people's sexual feelings.

  Sallie Tisdale

  Sex, Issues, People

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• Much sheer effort goes into avoiding the truth; left to itself, it sweeps in like the tide.

  Fay Weldon

  Acceptance, Effort, Tides

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• There are so many things that can provide us with peace. Next time you take a shower or a bath, I suggest you hold your big toes in mindfulness. We pay attention to everything except our toes. When we hold our toes in mindfulness and smile at them, we will find that our bodies have been very kind to us. We know that any cell in our toes can turn cancerous, but our toes have been behaving very well, avoiding that kind of problem. Yet, we have not been nice to them at all. These kinds of practices can bring us happiness.

  Nhat Hanh

  Nice, Cells, Practice

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• If we imagine that God is somehow punishing us, then we will live our lives in desperation and in fear that we are somehow avoiding displeasing God. The difficulty with that is as many ideas about how to displease and how to please God, as there are hairs on your head.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Hair, Ideas, Desperation

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• ... I don't think anybody should avoid mistakes. If it is within their nature to make certain mistakes, I think they should make them, make the mistakes and find out what the cost of the mistake is, rather than to constantly keep avoiding it, and never really knowing exactly what the experience of it is, what the cost of it is, you know, and all the other facets of the mistake. I don't think that mistakes are that bad. I think that they should try and not do destructive things, but I don't think that a mistake is that serious a thing that one should be told what to do to avoid it.

  Anne Bancroft

  Mistake, Thinking, Knowing

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• The cunning tempter, by avoiding the grossness of vice, often silences objections.

  Antoine Rivarol

  Silence, Vices, Cunning

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• One man restored our fortunes by delay. [By skilfully avoiding an engagement, Fabius exhausted the resources of the enemy.]

  Quintus Ennius

  Men, Enemy, Delay

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• Listen, after almost twenty years of call-in radio, I can tell you that the main thrust of too many lives is an overemphasis on feeling good instead of doing good. Being admired and respected by the self and others has taken a back seat to feeling good, or, at least, avoiding feeling bad. And, oh boy, the excuses some of you can come up with for doing so!

  Laura Schlessinger

  Taken, Boys, Self

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• Once you understand the power of stimulus control, you can use it to your advantage by changing the stimuli in your environment and avoiding undesirable ones; or, if that's not possible, by filling your consciousness with thoughts about their less tempting aspects.

  Jonathan Haidt

  Use, Environment, Consciousness

  Jonathan Haidt (2006). “The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom”, p.18, Basic Books

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• It is easy to imagine that the Buddha, the awakened one, is something or somewhere other than here or that awakening to reality will happen sometime other than now. But as long as we continue to think in terms of time we will deceive ourselves. The you who is chasing enlightenment will never become enlightened.
  
  Instead of striving towards some distant goal that you will never reach, I invite you to stop and ask: How am I avoiding the enlightenment that is already present in each moment? How am I seeing separation where it doesn't exist?

  Adyashanti

  Time, Reality, Thinking

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• Your true self is beyond either relying on others or avoiding them in order to know who you are.

  Kosho Uchiyama

  Self, Order, Knows

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• My writing process, such as it is, consists of a lot of noodling, procrastinating, dawdling, and avoiding.

  Amy Bloom

  Writing, Process, Procrastinating

  Amy Bloom (2010). “Where the God of Love Hangs Out: Fiction”, p.225, Random House

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• Godzilla. The big, green G-man has had a profound influence on my creative endeavors and imagination since I was blueberry-avoiding kid.

  Jeremy Robinson

  Kids, Men, Profound

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• There's nothing simpler than avoiding people you don't like. Avoiding one's friends, that's the real test.

  Lady Violet

  Real, People, Tests

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