Nine times out of ten, talking is a way of avoiding doing things.
Do not worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older it will avoid you.
When I was younger, many of my romantic escapades were just a means of simply avoiding being by myself. I was afraid of feeling lonely, afraid I wouldn't know what to say to myself.
When we truly need to do is often what we most feel like avoiding.
You will gain energy by meditating deeply, by speaking the truth, by learning to be still and by avoiding the crowd, most of the time, not all of the time.
Genius is the capacity of avoiding hard work.
Avoiding problems you need to face is avoiding the life you need to live.
The people who are showing up [on the Republican National Convention ], either they are ones who actually believe in Donald Trump, or they think there's enough they care about, sort of keeping the party afloat and avoiding a sweeping loss in the centre of the house, they're going to show up and give him some kind of base.
Your true self is beyond either relying on others or avoiding them in order to know who you are.
The best way to confront your fears it to stop avoiding the situation you're most afraid of.
The young are adept at learning, but even more adept at avoiding it.
They think that intelligence is about noticing things are relevant (detecting patterns); in a complex world, intelligence consists in ignoring things that are irrelevant (avoiding false patterns)
If the art of war were nothing but the art of avoiding risks, glory would become the prey of mediocre minds. . . . I have made all the calculations; fate will do the rest.
If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding worry, stress and tension. And if you didn't ask me, I'd still have to say it.
The essence of procrastination lies in not doing what you think you should be doing, a mental contortion that surely accounts for the great psychic toll the habit takes on people. This is the perplexing thing about procrastination: although it seems to involve avoiding unpleasant tasks, indulging in it generally doesn't make people happy.
Avoiding pregnancy is not an absolute evil. In certain cases, as in this one, or in the one I mentioned of Blessed Paul VI, it was clear.
Friendships like marriages are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable.
Successful investing is about managing risk, not avoiding it.
Honestly, I am pretty passionate about avoiding failure!
Talk of revolution is one of avoiding reality.