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 aversionlet-it-gokind If we could be freed from our aversion to loss, our whole outlook on risk would change. Alan Hirsch aversionriskloss 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 aversionsicknessfailing 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 aversioncharacterdrama I've always had an aversion to debt. Brunello Cucinelli debtaversion 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 aversioninnovationrisk 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 aversionwords-of-wisdommen 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 aversionlazydesign To be loved, we should merit but little esteem; all superiority attracts awe and aversion. Claude Adrien Helvetius meritaversionlittles The concept of loss aversion is certainly the most significant contribution of psychology to behavioral economics. Daniel Kahneman aversionpsychologyloss 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 aversionmenmemories One of the greatest inhibitions to the development of human potential is the aversion to effective practice. Douglas B. Reeves aversiondevelopmentpractice [Peace] cannot be honorable or secure, if the sovereign betrays a pusillanimous aversion to war. Edward Gibbon sovereignaversionwar Jealousy - that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion. Emile M. Cioran aversionjealousysecret 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 aversionbodydesire I always had, deep down, a slight aversion toward the purely cerebral in music. Esa-Pekka Salonen cerebraldeep-downaversion 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 aversionlife-islittles Success breeds conservatism, and that means a love affair with the status quo and an aversion to change. Frank Popoff aversionsuccessmean I am principled against this kind of traffic in the human species . . . and to disperse the families I have an aversion. George Washington aversionslaverykind123»
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