One of the greatest inhibitions to the development of human potential is the aversion to effective practice.
Our aversion to lying is commonly a secret ambition to make what we say considerable, and have every word received with a religious respect.
I have a political aversion to blue jeans. I'm biased against them. I really am. I've been forced over the course of my life, I have been forced by certain people to try a pair of jeans. So I've gone and I've tried 'em on, and I hate 'em. They're not comfortable. They just are not comfortable. I hate wearing anything that makes me feel like I have it on, and blue jeans make me feel like I'm wearing burlap.
I never had an aversion because I was active in the drama club. If I had that aversion I certainly wouldn't put myself in the position of being on stage. Of course, in the drama club you're hiding behind a character.
Aversion is a form of bondage. We are tied to what we hate or fear. That is why, in our lives, the same problem, the same danger or difficulty, will present itself over and over again in various prospects, as long as we continue to resist or run away from it instead of examining it and solving it.
As we have seen there is some kind of continuity in any case since every experience affects for better or worse the attitudes which help decide the quality of further experiences, by setting up certain preference and aversion, and making it easier or harder to act for this or that end.
The funniest thing is not who influenced me positively, but who influenced me negatively. I had such an aversion to what Busby Berkeley did; in my early formative years, I thought it was terrible. Now, I think it's wonderful. But then, I wanted to do anything but what Busby Berkeley did.
I've always had an aversion to debt.
I always had an aversion to your apostles of freedom; each but sought for himself freedom to do what he liked.
Jealousy - that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion.
The concept of loss aversion is certainly the most significant contribution of psychology to behavioral economics.
Some people just shouldn't be disturbed in their inclinations, whether large or small. A reminder can instantly turn enthusiasm into aversion and spoil everything.
I have an aversion to being mislabeled. Here's a label I'd accept: I'm an 'individual. ' I'm someone who can't follow, and doesn't want to lead.
You human beings think that yoga is in some way going to make everything you want to happen, work out. You are going to be able to avoid what you don't want. That is not yoga. That is desire and aversion.
Value investing is risk aversion.
To be loved, we should merit but little esteem; all superiority attracts awe and aversion.
Facts are plain spoken; hopes and figures are its aversion.
I hate to tell people what they should think 'cause I really have an aversion when people tell me what to think.
I registered the dukkha of self-aversion with such clarity that I knew there was no freedom unless I could love this life without holding back. This didn't mean I was going to ignore my flaws and stop seeking to improve what I could. But in the deepest way, I was not going to fixate on the conclusion that something was wrong with me.
In contrast to the speculators preoccupation with rapid gain, value investors demonstrate their risk aversion by striving to avoid loss.