#avoid

I've had to relearn how I work with people so that if and when I do avoid different things I don't send any messages in doing so. ↗

— Jock Sturges

#avoid #different #different things #doing #had

I'm just trying to avoid any sort of generic kind of music - I don't want to do generic jazz or fusion. ↗

— Andy Summers

#avoid #fusion #generic #i #jazz

Gossip, even when it avoids the sexual, bears around it a faint flavor of the erotic. ↗

— Patricia Meyer Spacks

#avoids #bears #even #faint #flavor

Many Japanese painters and calligraphers would change their names intentionally to keep their relationship to the art always fresh. This way, others' expectations can be avoided. ↗

— Tina Weymouth

#art #avoided #change #expectations #fresh

The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague. ↗

— Stuart Chase

#avoid #concrete #cultivate #delightfully #first

I glanced at Derek. The boy wonder didn't melt into a pile of goo, although his gaze was glued to Rowena's chest. Avoiding eye contact. Good strategy. ↗

— Ilona Andrews

#derek #fantasy #good-strategy #ilona-andrews #magic-bites

Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#better #certain #certain kinds #course #far

In the revolt against idealism, the ambiguities of the word experience have been perceived, with the result that realists have more and more avoided the word. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#ambiguities #avoided #been #experience #idealism

Should we freeze or postpone prospective tax cuts and avoid any new tax cuts until we are sure we have the money to pay for the war on terrorism and the war in Iraq. ↗

— Tim Russert

#avoid #cuts #freeze #iraq #money

So, in Europe, they're cutting people's retirement and health benefits. And that's what we want to avoid from happening. They're raising taxes, entering a recession. That's the kind of economic program that President Obama has put in place. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#benefits #cutting #economic #entering #europe