Avoid spending too much on one thing.
My mother warned me to avoid things colored red.
Avoid Extremes; and shun the fault of such Who still are pleas'd too little or too much.
I must protest that I would never seek foreign conflicts just to go over domestic difficulties; that would be frivolous. I was speaking of conflicts that we could not avoid, even though we do not seek them.
You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.
In short, is American life of the future to be characterized by freedom or by servitude, strength or weakness? The answer must be clear and unequivocal if we are to avoid the pitfalls toward which we are now heading with such certainty. In many respects it is not to be found in any dogma of political philosophy but in those immutable precepts which underlie the Ten Commandments.
A lot of success in life and business comes from knowing what you want to avoid: early death, a bad marriage, etc.
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.
There is no more dangerous illusion than the fancies by which people try to avoid illusion.
You can't learn how to be elegant; you can only learn how to avoid mistakes. The rest is instinct. Elegance is about the way you cross your legs, not the label or the newest clothes from the latest collection.
Before a game, I avoid having a heavy meal so that I don't feel sleepy at the board. You eat to be healthy, and that generally takes care of everything. Also, you can't be too finicky, since at tournaments you tend to eat at restaurants here and there. But, as long as you're eating sensibly, it's all good.
I have dabbled with action, romance, dance, emotion and comedy. I think I've done well in all. It's important to keep doing something different and reinvent oneself to avoid stagnation from creeping in.
In handling resources, strive to avoid disaster rather than to attain an optimum.
Most evolving lineages, human or otherwise, when threatened with extinction, don't do anything special to avoid it.
I want to appreciate you now, and avoid the rush.
Politicians wishing to set a better tone should have the discipline to avoid televised cage matches.
Avoid arguments, but whenever a negative attitude is expressed, counter with a positive and optimistic opinion.
People do think that if they avoid the truth, it might change to something better before they have to hear it.
This is what Krishna says in the Bhagavad-Gita - Karma Yoga. If you can't avoid action, you might as well act.
Adventure is something out of the usual pattern, a point at which you cannot avoid confronting the unknown, so that you have to dig inside yourself to find the courage and resources to deal with what may lie ahead, and to succeed.