Avoid Quotes

I don't try to sound like anyone but me anymore. If something is out of my element, I try to avoid it.

Personally, I would say the 'master' of this whole thing is fate... Whoever is on the playing field is fair game, and it's up to them to avoid being used.

I avoid the public because the English public is too aggressive these days for me.

I've had to relearn how I work with people so that if and when I do avoid different things I don't send any messages in doing so.

The two worst strategic mistakes to make are acting prematurely and letting an opportunity slip; to avoid this, the warrior treats each situation as if it were unique and never resorts to formulae, recipes or other people's opinions.

I would love to tell you I've found the secret to eternal youth. I go to the gym and avoid too many chips. I love to eat, hate to work out, but if you can't count all your ribs from a distance you're considered obese.

Make definite assertions. Avoid tame, colorless, hesitating, non-committal language.

If you had asked people in 1929, 'Here is what is about to happen. How much would you pay to avoid the Great Depression from occurring?' The answer is they would have paid a lot. They would have borrowed money if it could be used to prevent the Great Depression.

The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.

My point is that perceptual bias can affect nut jobs and scientists alike. If we hold too rigidly to what we think we know, we ignore or avoid evidence of anything that might change our mind.

Avoid fruits and nuts. You are what you eat.

I aim to tell the truth about any subject, not a romance or fantasy, not avoid the truth.

Full, saturated colours have an emotional significance I want to avoid.

In 1960 I published a book that attempted to direct attention to the possibility of a thermonuclear war, to ways of reducing the likelihood of such a war, and to methods for coping with the consequences should war occur despite our efforts to avoid it.

I have such thin skin, so I make a concerted effort to avoid reading anything about myself.

I try to avoid long-range plans and visions - that way I can more easily deal with anything new that comes up.

I don't like to be feared, and I can't work in conflict, I'm very bad with conflict. I try to avoid it, it paralyzes me.

Man should not try to avoid stress any more than he would shun food, love or exercise.

Last, but not least, avoid cliches like the plague.

City government can and must help San Franciscans prepare for emergencies in order to avoid tragedy where possible and minimize loss of life and property when emergencies occur.

I avoid clients for whom advertising is only a marginal factor in their marketing mix. They have an awkward tendency to raid their advertising appropriations whenever they need cash for other purposes.

I am a scholar of life. Every night before I go to sleep, I analyze every detail of what I did that day. I evaluate things and people, which helps me avoid mistakes.

A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.

The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.

I went across the fields to avoid the straight highways, along the firing lines where people were shooting at a small wooded hill, which is now covered with wooden crosses and lines of graves instead of spring flowers.

I've never had a MySpace or a Facebook page. I avoid that entirely.

Check bags are fun. I just make sure there won't be anything illegal in my check bag which is forbidden at a cabin of a plane. Just leaving things like scissors and such out of my carry-on things in order to avoid troubles with some certain airline, y'know.

We should not allow wealthy people, including corporate criminals, to hide their assets and avoid paying their bills.

It goes without saying that the desire to accomplish the task with more confidence, to avoid wasting time and labour, and to spare our experimental animals as much as possible, made us strictly observe all the precautions taken by surgeons in respect to their patients.

Young people are threatened... by the evil use of advertising techniques that stimulate the natural inclination to avoid hard work by promising the immediate satisfaction of every desire.