Avoid Quotes

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.

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.

If you wish to avoid seeing a fool you must first break your looking glass.

To let politics become a cesspool, and then avoid it because it is a cesspool, is a double crime.

Few scientists acquainted with the chemistry of biological systems at the molecular level can avoid being inspired.

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.

Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you.

The day I showed up to South Carolina to work, I was with my kid and my ex and our dog and Kirk was hanging with this weird guy and I kind of defined the two of them by his friend and made a vow to avoid him.

I labored hard to avoid trouble and bloodshed.

Some days I think I look kind of cute, but other days I try to avoid the mirror.

I avoid talking about the way I work. But in avoiding it I seem only to have encouraged people to focus their fantasies about me in an ever more fantastical way.

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.

No one, no social group, can today avoid the commitment to contribute to the clean up of public finances in order to prevent the financial collapse of Italy. The sacrifices will not be in vain, especially if the economy begins to grow again.

Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.