Depression will always follow any decision to avoid a priority.
Officeholders are the agents of the people, not their masters. Not only is their time and labor due to the government, but they should scrupulously avoid in their political action, as well as in the discharge of their official duty, offending by a display of obtrusive partisanship their neighbors who have relations with them as public officials.
Evil people hate the light because it reveals themselves to themselves. . . . They will destroy the light, the goodness, the love in order to avoid the pain of self-awareness. . . . [E]vil is laziness carried to its ultimate, extraordinary extreme.
One metric catches people. We prefer businesses that drown in cash. An example of a different business is construction equipment. You work hard all year and there is your profit sitting in the yard. We avoid businesses like that. We prefer those that can write us a check at the end of the year.
I've always done everything at my disposal to avoid labeling what I do, or to avoid being labeled myself
The man who can own up to his error is greater than he who merely knows how to avoid making it.
The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus and apply your mental and physical energies to the problem at hand - without growing weary. Because such thinking is often difficult, there seems to be no limit to which some people will go to avoid the effort and labor that is associated with it.
We must not just be in the world and above the world, but also of the world. To love it for what it is. . . is the only task. Avoid it and you are lost. Lose yourself in it, and you are free.
What draws people to the instrument is the love for guitar players that play a certain way. I mean, even though it wasn't intentional, it was hard to avoid copying Eddie Van Halen. He was basically the *bleep* back then.
Entrepreneurs: The only people who work 80 hour weeks to avoid working 40 hour weeks.
Always avoid the acute angle.
Avoid spending too much on one thing.
Attaining a PhD is just an excuse that all young women are using nowadays to avoid starting families.
If we haven't a grouch against Fortune, we seem unable to avoid one against ourselves.
Life is like a maze in which you try to avoid the exit.
I tend to avoid televisions, politics, and places with velvet ropes.
Avoid greed and fear. These are the investor's Achilles heels. Keeping all your money in the bank earning 3% interest is just as foolish as dumping your entire savings into the market thinking you'll make a quick buck.
Avoid employing unlucky people - throw half of the pile of CVs in the bin without reading them.
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.
An addiction is anything we do to avoid hearing the messages that body and soul are trying to send us.