Threat Avoidance Quotes

Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people.

He won't hurt me. I have a secret weapon.

But, Sergeant Osbern, Sir, I like my head.

Urban survival rule 22: Never annoy an armed man.

It's why I get miffed at all the dashing around in recent zombie films. It completely misses the point; transforms the threat to a straightforward physical danger from the zombies themselves, rather than our own inability to avoid them and these films are about us, not them. There's far more meat on the bones of the latter, far more juicy interpretation to get our teeth into. The first zombie is by comparison thin and one dimensional and ironically, it is down to all the exercise.

The virtuous woman flees from danger; she trusts more to her prudence in shunning it than in her strength to overcome it.

Principle #1: Avoid dangerous people and dangerous places. Principle #2: Do not defend your property. Principle #3: Respond immediately and escape.

What is addressed to us for contemplation does not threaten us, but makes us intellectual beings.

Spend two minutes a day scanning the world for three new things you're grateful for. And do that for 21 days, The reason why that's powerful is you're training your brain to scan the world in a new pattern, you're scanning for positives, instead of scanning for threats. It's the fastest way of teaching optimism.

Instead of expending time to train yourself not to be afraid of snakes, avoid them altogether.