#avoid

One of the things I have tried to do with this book and with all of them really is avoid that simple, easy, reductionist view of motivation and to show we do things for a complex net of reasons, a real braid of reasons. ↗

— Russell Banks

#book #complex #easy #i #motivation

It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it. ↗

— Francis Beaumont

#avoid #injury #more #noble #overcome

I've tried to avoid labels, but they always find you. ↗

— Poppy Z. Brite

#avoid #find #i #labels #tried

All that a good government aims at... is to add no unnecessary and artificial aid to the force of its own unavoidable consequences, and to abstain from fortifying and accumulating social inequality as a means of increasing political inequalities. ↗

— James F. Cooper

#add #aid #aims #artificial #consequences

Few scientists acquainted with the chemistry of biological systems at the molecular level can avoid being inspired. ↗

— Donald Cram

#avoid #being #biological #chemistry #few

Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#alone #also #anticipate #avoids #businessman

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#avoid #best #best way #die #follow

I avoid crazy women. ↗

— Jeremy London

#crazy #i #women

No one can be profoundly original who does not avoid eccentricity. ↗

— Andre Maurois

#does #eccentricity #original #profoundly #who

Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory. ↗

— Norman Vincent Peale

#battles #consists #fighting #happiness #itself