Trust me: Setting things up right from the beginning will avoid a ton of tears and heartache.

In presence of the Moon nobody sees stars.

Contention is inseparable from creating knowledge. It is not contention we should try to avoid, but discourses that attempt to suppress contention.

When you have clay in your hands, it’s hard to avoid making birds.

In real life, wolves will do anything to avoid contact with mankind.

There’s certain things I try to avoid, as an actress, just to keep my world from being as narrow as it could be.

If I can avoid looking at myself, I will. I don’t care to examine myself or see much of what I do. I never care how I look.

Life, she realized, so often became a determined, relentless avoidance of pain-of one’s own, of other people’s. But sometimes pain had to be acknowledged and even touched so that one could move into it and...

One major way to avoid shifting blames unto other people is to accept and agree that the efforts that turn the loads of your self- improvement have to turn on your own pivot.

I avoid any kind of organised trips as that’s one of my bugbears.

Governments oppress people, but so do mobs. You need to avoid both to make progress.

Never delete but save the numbers of your enemies.. so that it helps you avoid them better.

Part of avoiding thoughts about something was not encouraging opportunities for that something to makes itself felt.

Avoid hating people because you might have destroyed the bridge you have just used to cross the river; you’ll need that bridge to cross again when returning!

Normally, however, I try to avoid repetitions of any shot.

They all call me “Excuse me,” even though my nametag clearly says “Jordan.” It’s like people don’t actually exist while they’re working. Workers are just tools who aren’t supposed to have feelings or personalities. You...

I don’t have famous neighbours and if I did, I’d avoid them. I don’t live the jet-set.

More cuts were needed to avoid exiting the eurozone.

You have it in your God-given power, the willingness to make the years ahead of you to become a brighter one. Avoid things that will not make you a success in the nearby future!

It’s better to not be afraid of things and not avoid things.

I think it’s really important to mix cardio with toning, so I love boxing and then add in Pilates or ballet to keep me long and lean and avoid bulking up.

The alternative minimum tax was designed to prevent the very wealthiest Americans from overusing certain tax benefits to avoid most of their tax burden.

I try to avoid a specific image. I seek to play as many different women as I can to avoid having a label put on me.

The passage is free for those who think you are not good enough for them: at your level, I think the best option is to sit back, relax and listen to a cool music, while...

Avoid the use of abusive words when communication is in session; you might scare away someone who is meant to become your mentor or your customer.

Ain’t no man can avoid being born average, but there ain’t no man got to be common.

I avoid Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter, and if I need to communicate with someone, I email direct.

The petitioner’s problem is to avoid Scylla without being drawn into Charybdis.

When you try to avoid the pain, it creates greater pain.

To become greater in anything you can do, prepare to be a rejecter of everything that you cannot do. Neglect whatever activities that do not contribute to your success and you will never regret the...

Avoid fried foods, which angry up the blood.

I try to avoid barbecue potato chips. They’re my weakness.

As much as possible, avoid hiring MBAs. MBA programs don’t teach people how to create companies.

Statements of ordinary people are ignored like poor freebies, statements of great people are accepted like profound philosophy.

Your enemies are not to be destroyed, grant them longevity to witness your success.

Success has no other shortcuts apart from the ones that tell you; control thoughts, delete negativity, alternate actions and shift attitudes to become positive! Click on passion, it opens a new window for you to...

Avoid running at all times.

I’ve managed to avoid tattoos so far.

Efficiency is speed. Effectiveness is direction. You need both to avoid going in circles.

He had been haunted his whole life by a mildcase of claustrophobia—the vestige of a childhood incident he had never quite overcome.Langdon’s aversion to closed spaces was by no means debilitating, but it had always...

It is our grave mistake that for many years we neglected pro-Western groups in order to avoid any friction with the existing rulers.

Avoid the penalties of the blame game. You were born to be boss player, not a blame giver. Stop the blame!

I think I hate cynicism more than anything else. It’s the curse of our age, and I want to avoid it at all costs.

Circumvent negative influences, circumstances and people.

Avoidance is paying forward that which I would be much wiser to pay off.

I’ve been trying to avoid goal-oriented behavior.

There are many good seeds in you. Therefore you must avoid every bad soil in the world.

We will never outrun the nagging of original divinely inspired purpose.

The philosopher ought never to try to avoid the duty of making up his mind.

Some people will make nonsense excuses to avoid things they have no interest in doing.