Avoidance Strategies Quotes

I think what's interesting about the whole paparazzi thing is that unless you're Brad Pitt or Madonna, you can pretty much avoid it. You know when you're going to an opening that you will be photographed, so that's fine. And you know the restaurants that have paparazzi, so you don't go to them.

Every once in a while an issue comes up where I have to make a statement. I can't totally avoid all political issues, but I try my best to minimize them. When I do make a statement, I try to be fairly neutral.

Why was so much done in remedying the evil instead of avoiding it in the first place?

All of us have ways in which we mask and cover our pain.

If something's stressful I've always tended to just find ways of avoiding it rather than rising to meet it or try to change it.

We always defer … kick the can down the road. The only way you get into trouble in politics is to make choices.

I'm not a person who likes to confront.

By crying on my bed, drinking quite a lot and feeling tempted by drugs. Well, just not reading it to be perfectly honest with you. I know it's a bit of a copout.

Men love explaining things. But when he's explaining something and you already know that, it might be tempting to say 'I already know that.' Instead, have him explain it to you over and over again. It will make him feel useful and will give you some time to think about out how to avoid him in the future.

I just try to think of all the things that could go wrong so in that split second when it happens, maybe your body reacts in a way where it protects you just a little.

If the prospect of a bad result gets the heart racing - a plane crash, a terrible disease, a loss of 30 percent of your portfolio - most people will take strong steps to avoid it. They will pay too little attention to a comforting thought, which is that worst-case scenarios usually don't come to fruition.

I feel like I'm constantly trying to avoid awkwardness. I always try to pretend that the awkwardness doesn't exist, and then it just becomes more awkward.

Could we have prevented in 100% certainty? I don't think anything is that certain. However, we would have had a very, very good chance for preventing it.

Men go to far greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to obtain what they desire.

I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them.

When I did these psychological characters like the drug addicts, the ones who were rejected and dejected, I started to feel a sort of melancholia which was very unnatural for me to have at a teenage. Then I avoided those characters.

I was way behind physically in high school. They had weight bars that were about forty-five pounds. I couldn't handle them. Couldn't even put the weights on. It was embarrassing. So I always figured out ways to avoid lifting when I was young.

My siblings and I kept everything to ourselves, and rather than blowing up in an instant, my family broke apart slowly.

We have long observed that every neurosis has the result, and therefore probably the purpose, of forcing the patient out of real life, of alienating him from actuality.

All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble is that men very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work.

We need to think the worst in order to avoid it.

I have a very hard time with confrontation in my own life, and I end up being way too nice.

Preventive policies are greatly superior to reactive ones.

Even Karaoke needs higher standards than I can reach, so I have gone great lengths to avoid being bullied into it.

What does one tell a husband? One tells him nothing.