Avoid Quotes

Magnetic lines of force convey a far better and purer idea than the phrase magnetic current or magnetic flood: it avoids the assumption of a current or of two currents and also of fluids or a fluid, yet conveys a full and useful pictorial idea to the mind.

The activity you’re most avoiding contains your biggest opportunity.

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

He must avoid quarreling as he would avoid drinking a deadly poison.

Customers tend to avoid a restaurant that’s going aswamp in its own sludge.

It hurts my head, but it’s fine because it’s something I do every day. You can’t avoid the gymnastics questions.

We cannot control necessity, though we often persuade ourselves that certain things are our choice, when in truth we have been unavoidably impelled to them.

We spend so much time avoiding death that we forget to take time to truly live.

The central question of a warrior’s training is not how we avoid uncertainty and fear but how we relate to discomfort.

I talk to nurses and programmers, salespeople and firefighters – people who bust their tails every day. Not one of them – not one – stashes their money in the Cayman Islands to avoid paying their fair share of taxes.