#avoid

There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking. ↗

— Thomas A. Edison

#expedient #go #labor #man #thinking

In 1960 I published a book that attempted to direct attention to the possibility of a thermonuclear war, to ways of reducing the likelihood of such a war, and to methods for coping with the consequences should war occur despite our efforts to avoid it. ↗

— Herman Kahn

#attention #avoid #book #consequences #coping

Caring for children is a dance between setting appropriate limits as caretakers and avoiding unnecessary power struggles that result in unhappiness. ↗

— Charlotte Davis Kasl

#avoiding #between #caretakers #caring #children

There was a taboo as a result of the Holocaust that people respected that anti-Semitism was an ugly thing and should be avoided. Now that taboo seems to have been broken with impunity. ↗

— Steven T. Katz

#avoided #been #broken #holocaust #impunity

We try to organize the world, which isn't organized the way our brains want to organize it. We tell stories about the people in our lives, we project ideas onto them. We project relationships with people, we make our lives into stories. I don't think we can avoid doing that. ↗

— Charlie Kaufman

#avoid #brains #doing #i #ideas

I mean, I was just one of the ones who got exposed, and because of the position I was in, where I was in my life, it went mainstream. A lot of people got out of it after my situation, not because I went to prison but because it was sad for them to see me go through something that was so pointless, that could have been avoided. ↗

— Michael Vick

#avoided #because #been #could #exposed

Injuries are part of the game, but sometimes we can avoid them by just practicing our techniques. ↗

— Troy Vincent

#game #injuries #just #our #part

Now he must not go the wrong way round the circuit, and unless he can spin himself stationary through 360 degrees I fail to see how he can avoid doing so. ↗

— Murray Walker

#avoid #circuit #degrees #doing #fail

I avoid talking before the youth of the age as I would dancing before them: for if one's tongue don't move in the steps of the day, and thinks to please by its old graces, it is only an object of ridicule. ↗

— Horace Walpole

#avoid #before #dancing #day #graces

I remember having to take detours around the Hollywood sign to avoid having to see this grotesque poster of myself on Sunset Boulevard. ↗

— Rachel Ward

#avoid #boulevard #detours #grotesque #having