Quotes by Aversion I have a congenital aversion to failure. Abraham Lincoln aversion The problem is grasping the clock. So what do I do? Let it go, lay it aside - put it down gently without any kind of aversion. Then I can pick it up again, see what time it is and lay it aside when necessary. Ajahn Sumedho aversion let-it-go kind If we could be freed from our aversion to loss, our whole outlook on risk would change. Alan Hirsch aversion risk loss Crime, folly, sickness and all phenomena must be contemplated with complete freedom from fear aversion or shame. Otherwise we shall fail to see accurately, and interpret intelligently; in which case we shall be unable to outwit and outfight them. Aleister Crowley aversion sickness failing I never had an aversion because I was active in the drama club. If I had that aversion I certainly wouldn't put myself in the position of being on stage. Of course, in the drama club you're hiding behind a character. Bob Newhart aversion character drama I've always had an aversion to debt. Brunello Cucinelli debt aversion NASA's myriad failures are in many ways the natural consequence of a catastrophic combination of bureaucracy, monopoly, and a calcifying aversion to the kind of risk necessary for innovation. Burt Rutan aversion innovation risk No one has the least regard for the man; with them all, he has been an object of avoidance, suspicion, and aversion; but the spark of life within him is curiously separable from himself now, and they have a deep interest in it, probably because it IS life, and they are living and must die. Charles Dickens aversion words-of-wisdom men The human species is often amazingly inventive and industrious but at the same time profoundly lazy. It's very clear that we humans don't like to work. This aversion to work is so extreme - and our ingenuity so acute - that we're eager to devote countless hours designing and building devices that might shave a few minutes off our workday Charles Petzold aversion lazy design To be loved, we should merit but little esteem; all superiority attracts awe and aversion. Claude Adrien Helvetius merit aversion littles The concept of loss aversion is certainly the most significant contribution of psychology to behavioral economics. Daniel Kahneman aversion psychology loss I cannot but bless the memory of Julius Caesar, for the great esteem he expressed for fat men and his aversion to lean ones. David Hume aversion men memories One of the greatest inhibitions to the development of human potential is the aversion to effective practice. Douglas B. Reeves aversion development practice [Peace] cannot be honorable or secure, if the sovereign betrays a pusillanimous aversion to war. Edward Gibbon sovereign aversion war Jealousy - that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion. Emile M. Cioran aversion jealousy secret Some things are in our control and others not. Things in our control are opinion, pursuit, desire, aversion, and, in a word, whatever are our own actions. Things not in our control are body, property, reputation, command, and, in one word, whatever are not our own actions. Epictetus aversion body desire I always had, deep down, a slight aversion toward the purely cerebral in music. Esa-Pekka Salonen cerebral deep-down aversion Only by pursuing the extremes in one's nature, with all its contradictions, appetites, aversions, rages, can one hope to understand a little - oh, I admit only a very little - of what life is about. Francoise Sagan aversion life-is littles Success breeds conservatism, and that means a love affair with the status quo and an aversion to change. Frank Popoff aversion success mean I am principled against this kind of traffic in the human species . . . and to disperse the families I have an aversion. George Washington aversion slavery kind 123»