Aversion famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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If we could be freed from our aversion to loss, our whole outlook on risk would change.
-- Alan Hirsch -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
One of the greatest inhibitions to the development of human potential is the aversion to effective practice.
-- Douglas B. Reeves -
Jealousy - that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion.
-- Emile M. Cioran -
I always had, deep down, a slight aversion toward the purely cerebral in music.
-- Esa-Pekka Salonen -
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 -
Success breeds conservatism, and that means a love affair with the status quo and an aversion to change.
-- Frank Popoff -
I deeply detest social distinction and snobbery, and in that lies my strong aversion to titular honours.
-- Helen Clark -
You can't ever get everything you want. It is impossible. Luckily, there is another option: You can learn to control your mind, to step outside of the endless cycle of desire and aversion.
-- Henepola Gunaratana -
He was the soul of politeness to everyone -- to some with a hint of aversion, to others with a hint of respect.
-- Ivan Turgenev -
A gentleman's park is my aversion. It is not beauty because it is not nature.
-- John Constable -
Facts are plain spoken; hopes and figures are its aversion.
-- Joseph Addison -
The unattractive thing about chauvinism is not so much the aversion to other nations as the love of one's own.
-- Karl Kraus -
I've always had an aversion to looking sexy, but I've grown out of it.
-- Kristen Stewart -
Blogs are the main exception I make in my aversion to complex machinery.
-- Laurie R. King -
There is a decided prejudice on the part of the general public against being piloted by a woman, and as great an aversion, partially because of this, by executives of those companies whose activities require employing pilots.
-- Louise Thaden -
Business was his aversion; Pleasure was his business.
-- Maria Edgeworth -
The mind spends most of the time lost in fantasies and illusions, reliving pleasant or unpleasant experiences and anticipating the future with eagerness or fear. While lost in such cravings or aversions, we are unaware of what is happening now, what we are doing now.
-- S. N. Goenka -
The old endless chain of love, tolerance, indifference, aversion and disgust
-- Samuel Beckett -
In contrast to the speculators preoccupation with rapid gain, value investors demonstrate their risk aversion by striving to avoid loss.
-- Seth Klarman -
What we have to learn, in both meditation and in life, is to be free of attachment to the good experiences, and free of aversion to the negative ones.
-- Sogyal Rinpoche -
The funniest thing is not who influenced me positively, but who influenced me negatively. I had such an aversion to what Busby Berkeley did; in my early formative years, I thought it was terrible. Now, I think it's wonderful. But then, I wanted to do anything but what Busby Berkeley did.
-- Stanley Donen -
Some people just shouldn't be disturbed in their inclinations, whether large or small. A reminder can instantly turn enthusiasm into aversion and spoil everything.
-- Tove Jansson
