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• Social media requires that business leaders start thinking like small-town shop owners. This means taking the long view and avoiding short-term benchmarks to gauge progress. It means allowing the personality, heart and soul of the people who run all levels of the business to show.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Running, Heart, Mean

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• The essence of procrastination lies in not doing what you think you should be doing, a mental contortion that surely accounts for the great psychic toll the habit takes on people. This is the perplexing thing about procrastination: although it seems to involve avoiding unpleasant tasks, indulging in it generally doesn't make people happy.

  James Surowiecki

  Lying, Procrastination, Thinking

  "Later". www.newyorker.com. October 11, 2010.

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• In avoiding specific goals he had avoided specific limitations. For the time being the world, life itself, could be his chosen field.

  Richard Yates

  Goal, World, Fields

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• You can live a lifetime and, at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself. You learn to watch other people, but you never watch yourself because you strive against loneliness. If you read a book, or shuffle a deck of cards, or care for a dog, you are avoiding yourself. The abhorrence of loneliness is as natural as wanting to live at all. If it were otherwise, men would never have bothered to make an alphabet, nor to have fashioned words out of what were only animal sounds, nor to have crossed continents - each man to see what the other looked like.

  Beryl Markham

  Dog, Loneliness, Book

  Beryl Markham (2015). “West With The Night”, p.182, Hachette UK

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• A day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do.

  Bill Watterson

  Hobbes, Slips

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• There is a case for telling the truth; there is a case for avoiding the scandal; but there is no possible defense for the man who tells the scandal, but does not tell the truth

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Truth, Honesty, Men

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• There are two ways of avoiding fear: one is by persuading ourselves that we are immune from disaster, and the other is by the practice of sheer courage. The latter is difficult, and to everybody becomes impossible at a certain point. The former has therefore always been more popular. Primitive magic has the purpose of securing safety, either by injuring enemies, or by protecting oneself by talismans, spells, or incantations.

  Bertrand Russell

  Practice, Two, Safety

  Bertrand Russell (1986). “Bertrand Russell on God and Religion”

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• Smart people don't learn... because they have too much invested in proving what they know and avoiding being seen as not knowing.

  Chris Argyris

  Smart, Teaching, Learning

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• Owning your own home is America's unique recipe for avoiding revolution and promoting pseudo-equality at the same time.

  Florence King

  Home, Unique, Equality

  Florence King (1990). “Reflections In A Jaundiced Eye”, p.91, Macmillan

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• Just … isn’t giving up allowed sometimes? Isn’t it okay to say, ‘This really hurts, so I’m going to stop trying’?” “It sets a dangerous precedent.” “For avoiding pain?” “For avoiding life.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Hurt, Pain, Giving Up

  Rainbow Rowell (2013). “Fangirl”, p.175, Pan Macmillan

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• Whenever I'm with my mother, I feel as though I have to spend the whole time avoiding land mines.

  Amy Tan

  Mom, Daughter, Mother

  Amy Tan (2006). “The Kitchen God's Wife”, p.15, Penguin

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• I had been simply treating water, settling on surviving and avoiding pain rather than being actively involved in seeking out life.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Pain, Water, Settling

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• It's all well and good saying you avoid pain by avoiding relationships, but what about the wonderful things you're avoiding as well? What about the joy and the intimacy and the trust that come with finding someone you love?

  Jane Green

  Pain, Joy, Someone You Love

  Jane Green (2000). “Bookends”, p.185, Penguin UK

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• Avoiding me, Quen downed a swallow of wine. "Trent is a fine young man," he said, watching the remaining wine swirl. "Yes... " I drawled, cautiously. "If you can call a drug lord and outlawed-medicine manufacturer a fine young man.

  Kim Harrison

  Wine, Men, Medicine

  Kim Harrison (2013). “Ever After”, p.11, HarperCollins UK

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• The truth is, normal might take years. Normal might never happen. But it’s definitely not going to happen if I lounge around here watching soaps and avoiding life. I’m going to school today, end of story.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  School, Years, Stories

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2011). “Silence”, p.58, Simon and Schuster

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• Procrastinating is number three on my Stupid List. You still end up exactly where you didn't want to be, doing exactly what you didn't want to do, withe the only difference being that you lost all that time in between, during which you could have been doing something fun. Even worse, you probably stayed in a stressed-out, crappy mood the whole time you were avoiding it. If you know something is inevitable, do it and get it over with. Move on. Life is short.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Fun, Stupid, Moving

  FaceBook post by Karen Marie Moning from Oct 15, 2013

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• I touched the combination lock. I concentrated so hard I felt like I was dead-lifting five hundred pounds. My pulse quickening. A line of sweat trickled down my nose. Finally I felt gears turning. Metal groaned, tumblers clicked, and the bolts popped back. Carefully avoiding the handle, I pried open the door with my fingertips and extracted an unbroken vial of green liquid. Hal exhaled. Thalia kissed me on the cheek, which she probably shouldn't haven't done while I was holding a tube of deadly poison. "You are so good," she said. Did that make the risk worth? Yeah, pretty much.

  Rick Riordan

  Doors, Sweat, Risk

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• They think that intelligence is about noticing things are relevant (detecting patterns); in a complex world, intelligence consists in ignoring things that are irrelevant (avoiding false patterns)

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Thinking, World, Patterns

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2016). “Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile”, p.1783, Random House

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• We all have ideas about love and death. We keep a close eye out for them our entire lives, seeking one and avoiding the other, knowing all the while that both are mostly beyond our control. It is a both scary and exciting predicament. In the end, it all depends on how you look at it. One thing is for sure; it is never quite what you expect.

  Tonya Hurley

  Eye, Ideas, Knowing

  Tonya Hurley (2012). “Ghostgirl: Lovesick”, p.178, Hachette UK

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• I think...that I would rather recollect a life mis-spent on fragile things than spent avoiding moral debt.

  Neil Gaiman

  Thinking, Debt, Moral

  Neil Gaiman (2009). “Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders”, p.13, Harper Collins

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• They stared at her curiously, and she caught snatches of conversation in two or three languages. It wasn't hard to guess their content, and she smiled a bit primly. Youth, it appeared, was full of illusions as to how much sexual energy two people might have to spare while hiking forty or so kilometers a day, concussed, stunned, diseased, on poor food and little sleep, alternating caring for a wounded man with avoiding becoming dinner for every carnivore within range - and with a coup to plan for the end.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Sleep, Caring, Men

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• Avoiding offense means that we don't accept each other as equals.

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali

  Mean, Acceptance, Accepting

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• They (the consecrated) are men and woman who can awaken the world. Consecrated life is prophecy. God asks us to fly the nest and to be sent to the frontiers of the world, avoiding the temptation to 'domesticate' them. This is the most concrete way of imitating the Lord.

  Pope Francis

  Men, Temptation, World

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• There is nothing wrong with avoiding people who hurt you.

  Taylor Swift

  Hurt, People

  "Taylor Swift's Perfect Break Up Advice, For Broken Hearts Everywhere on Valentine's Day" by Lynsey Eidell, www.glamour.com. February 12, 2015.

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• The core of a scientific lifestyle is to change your mind when faced with information that disagrees with your views, avoiding intellectual inertia, yet many of us praise leaders who stubbornly stick to their views as "strong."

  Max Tegmark

  Strong, Views, Leader

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