Martha Beck

When fear makes your choices for you, no security measures on earth will keep the things you dread from finding you. But if you can avoid avoidance - if you can choose to embrace experiences out of passion, enthusiasm, and a readiness to feel whatever arises - then nothing, nothing in all this dangerous world, can keep you from being safe.

American Author

Alanis Morissette

When I was younger, I was terrified to express anger because it would often kick-start a horrible reaction in the men in my life. So I bit my tongue. I was left to painstakingly deal with the aftermath of my avoidance later in life, in therapy or through the lyrics of my songs.

Canadian Musician

Cyril Connolly

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

English Journalist

George C. Williams

Job's avoidance of rebellion against God has nothing to do with God being good or wise or anything like that; it's strictly because God is so powerful, and you don't fight something when you are so much weaker than that which you would fight.

American Scientist

Amy Morin

While ignoring your bad habits may help you feel good initially, that avoidance will eventually catch up to you. When you don't address the unproductive and unhealthy things you're doing alongside your good habits, you'll stagnate.

Ramy Youssef

I think so much of real life is this avoidance of getting into the not knowing. So much of my life, I've been running from just admitting that I don't know.

American Comedian

Daniel Craig

At some point, life starts to pass you by and becomes about avoidance. I want to stay clear from that situation, because I don't like that.

English Actor

William Glasser

To counter the avoidance of intellectual challenge and responsibility, we must reduce the domination of certainty in education.

American Psychologist

Thomas Hardy

A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.

English Novelist

Rutger Bregman

Almost no one raises the real issue of tax avoidance, right? And of the rich just not paying their fair share.

Dutch Historian

Avoidance implies a decision to steer clear of something, it's not accidental.

Active Choice

Avoidance often suggests a lack of responsibility or confrontation.

Negative Connotation

Tax avoidance can be legal but sometimes borders on evasion, which is illegal.

Legality

Although legal, tax avoidance may still raise ethical questions.

Ethical Dilemma

Avoidance in this context means to take steps to prevent an issue before it arises.

Proactive Measure

Social avoidance can stem from deeper issues than just being shy or introverted.

Not Just Shyness

Consistent avoidance of people may indicate underlying psychological issues.

May Signal Problems

 They tend to be small, very attractive, but they hold onto their water at such great cost that they grow extremely slowly. Examples of avoidance of water loss are found in trees and shrubs. They send down very deep roots, mine subterranean water supplies and just keep flushing it through them at all times,

How we can make crops...

 tying curriculum to involvement in real world applications research from the national site for service-learning information shows a strong relationship between service-learning and respect for diversity self-confidence collaborative skills avoidance of risky behaviors and resilience after exposure to

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 on what this means for the whole species. When the dominant female gives way to a subordinate, it's not out of courtesy. In fact, the dominant female is extremely important for the cohesion of the group. If she dies on the road, the whole group is at risk. So this behavior of risk avoidance

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 and her fear of losing relationships. She went on to tell me that she was afraid of committing to anyone because she didn't want to get hurt. She expressed that she had not been close to anyone in over seven years because she feared failure. And maybe she might have an avoidance strategy

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 The argument over the Oxford comma has raised such strong passions over the years that a sort of truce has been reached. The common wisdom is that its use is optional, and depends on whether it will help to avoid confusion. For one thing, you're supposed to keep your use or avoidance

Grammar's great divide:...

 like conflict avoidance, helplessness and resignation, are growing. This means that our conscious and unconscious mental processes are holding us back from identifying the causes of the problem for what they are, working on solutions and fostering our own psychological resilience,

How climate change...

 makes the wholeness of life and it's so often in our narratives in society we talk about you know focusing on success and being positive all the time and goal-setting and you know there's this whole even even our avoidance that we have really I think at a very broad

How to be your best self...

 Which I actually did, and which needless to say did not endear me to the faculty. In effect, a vicious cycle of fear, avoidance, mistrust and misunderstanding had been established, and this was a battle in which I felt powerless

The voices in my head PIPE...

 not so far if he can't fight he will flight but he has never surrender you know this is not avoidance he's not avoiding you know he's actually facing the situation yeah I was amazed to see

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 you will have all the help in the world in that avoidance from the funeral industry. It's a multi-billion-dollar industry, and its economic model is based on the principle

Avoidance

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