#avoid

My point is that perceptual bias can affect nut jobs and scientists alike. If we hold too rigidly to what we think we know, we ignore or avoid evidence of anything that might change our mind. ↗

— Martha Beck

#alike #anything #avoid #bias #change

If someone had told me years ago that sharing a sense of humour was so vital to partnerships, I could have avoided a lot of sex! ↗

— Kate Beckinsale

#avoided #could #had #humour #i

It's about avoiding reality through various escape routes that become addictions and lead to Hell. My character is addicted to television, chocolate, coffee, to her dream of her son, which has no basis in reality. ↗

— Ellen Burstyn

#addicted #addictions #avoiding #basis #become

In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies. ↗

— L. Sprague de Camp

#advance #avoid #characters #contradictions #detail

If you see swarms of guys coming around you, you have to try and avoid being stuck on the kerb. ↗

— Michael East

#avoid #being #coming #guys #see

Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace. ↗

— Horace

#both #cultivates #envy #golden #hovel

The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall. ↗

— Denis Healey

#between #difference #evasion #prison #tax

But when we have families, when we have children, this gives us a purpose for being, to protect our children, to avoid going to jail because if I'm in jail, who looks after my children, who's there for my wife? ↗

— Ernie Hudson

#avoid #because #being #children #families

General Grant had no fixed plan of campaign beyond the general idea to avoid the strong defensive line occupied by General Lee behind Mine Run, and find a way to draw him out to open battle. ↗

— James Longstreet

#battle #behind #beyond #campaign #defensive

Some people stay in the academic world just to avoid becoming self-aware. You can quote me on that. ↗

— Michael McKean

#avoid #becoming #just #me #people