Avoid Quotes

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

A big part of finding the right resources is knowing what to look for and what to avoid.

To avoid ignorance and bullying, I've had to hide the fact that I'm a troll. You have no idea how much time and money I've spent on electrolysis and hair dye and reconstructive surgery so I can look like this.

When you try to avoid the pain, it creates greater pain.

But it is equally incontrovertible that if our intelligence gathering process is seriously flawed, we had better find out and find out fast if we are to avoid another Sept. 11.

I remember hitting Sarah Michelle Gellar with a right hook during my first week on the job. It was awful. They usually pair actors with stunt doubles to avoid things like that.

The price that one pays for refusing to act on the truth as one sees it, is to be led to believe untruth to avoid guilt.

Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.

Avoid any specific discussion of public policy at public meetings.

Bipartisanship helps to avoid extremes and imbalances. It causes compromises and accommodations. So let's cooperate.

Nobody should trust their virtue with necessity, the force of which is never known till it is felt, and it is therefore one of the first duties to avoid the temptation of it.

There's certain things I try to avoid, as an actress, just to keep my world from being as narrow as it could be.

One of the things I have tried to do with this book and with all of them really is avoid that simple, easy, reductionist view of motivation and to show we do things for a complex net of reasons, a real braid of reasons.

Enough people have now mentioned Bill Nye the Science Guy to me that I now desperately avoid it all costs.

Sometimes I think that a parody of democracy could be more dangerous than a blatant dictatorship, because that gives people an opportunity to avoid doing anything about it.

I always anticipated difficulties in order to avoid scenes.

Regarding Syria, we already call for dialogue between Syria and all parties concerned, in order to avoid any kind of escalation in the region which may expose the whole area to chaos.

Contention is inseparable from creating knowledge. It is not contention we should try to avoid, but discourses that attempt to suppress contention.

Polite and velvety leaders, who take care to avoid bruising others, are generally not as effective at forcing change.

Because I'm a chef, I eat out frequently, so it's hard for me to control what I consume in terms of calories. But when I'm at home, I eat what my wife cooks for me. She works hard to avoid making foods that are high in calories and cholesterol, so most of the time, she makes vegetarian dishes.

Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing.

I don't have famous neighbours and if I did, I'd avoid them. I don't live the jet-set.

I think it's really important to mix cardio with toning, so I love boxing and then add in Pilates or ballet to keep me long and lean and avoid bulking up.

Normally, however, I try to avoid repetitions of any shot.

I thank all of those deputies who supported the government and gave it a vote of confidence. I believe each of those votes represents a responsible decision to avoid placing our country's membership of the eurozone in danger.

Do not take yourself too seriously. You have to learn not to be dismayed at making mistakes. No human being can avoid failures.

Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking.

Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck.

To avoid entangling alliances has been a maxim of our policy ever since the days of Washington, and its wisdom no one will attempt to dispute.

If I am at a party, I want to be at the party. Too many photographers use the camera to avoid participating in things. They become professional observers.