Avoids Quotes

It is true that I have had heartache and tragedy in my life. These are things none of us avoids. Suffering is the price of being alive.

The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.

An intellectual is someone who avoids the mundane by lowering his handicap.

A revolution is interesting insofar as it avoids like the plague the plague it promised to heal.

An expert is a person who avoids small error as he sweeps on to the grand fallacy.

The girl with a future avoids a man with a past.

Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.

A self that is only differentiated - not integrated - may attain great individual accomplishments, but risks being mired in self-centered egotism. By the same token, a person who self is based exclusively on integration will be well connected and secure, but lack autonomous individuality. Only when a person invests equal amounts of psychic energy in these two processes and avoids both selfishness and conformity is the self likely to relect complexity.

He who avoids complaint invites happiness.

The competent programmer is fully aware of the limited size of his own skull. He therefore approaches his task with full humility, and avoids clever tricks like the plague.

It avoids a self-conscious relationship to the act. We live in the most self-conscious society in the history of mankind. There are good things in that, but there are also terrible things. The worst of it is, that we find it hard to give ourselves to the cultural process.

A poet clings to his own tradition and avoids internationalism.

The wise man avoids evil by anticipating it.