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The young are adept at learning, but even more adept at avoiding it.
P. J. O'Rourke
Learning
Young
Adept
More
Avoiding
Even
Simplicity is a key to avoiding complication. Part of the definition of simplicity is 'not complex or complicated; sincere.'
Joyce Meyer
Key
Complicated
Simplicity
Complex
Definition
Complication
Part
Sincere
Avoiding
There are some screw-ups headed your way. I wish I could tell you that there was a trick to avoiding the screw-ups... but they're coming for ya. It's a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.
Aaron Sorkin
Life
You
Wish
Way
Tell
Trick
Super
Unpredictable
Some
Could
Headed
Combination
Ya
Coming
Dumb
Being
Your
Avoiding
'Simplifying' the tax code is a priority mainly for people who make enough money to want to avoid paying taxes, and who make their money by means unorthodox enough to make avoiding taxes possible and desirable.
Alex Pareene
People
Money
Enough
Enough Money
Possible
Unorthodox
Mainly
Make
Priority
Tax
Want
Tax Code
Taxes
Means
Paying
Avoid
Avoiding
Who
Code
Desirable
My writing process, such as it is, consists of a lot of noodling, procrastinating, dawdling, and avoiding.
Amy Bloom
Writing
Consists
Writing Process
Lot
Process
Avoiding
A lot of problems stem from a desire to avoid discomfort. For example, people who fear failure often avoid new challenges in an effort to keep anxiety at bay. Avoiding emotional discomfort, however, is usually a short-term solution that leads to long-term problems.
Amy Morin
Failure
Challenges
People
Anxiety
Fear
Problems
Example
Bay
Solution
Emotional
Stem
Long-Term
Leads
New
For Example
New Challenges
Discomfort
However
Lot
Effort
Often
Short-Term
Avoid
Avoiding
Who
Keep
Desire
I always wanted to know what I'd face next, even though that was maybe a bit detrimental to spontaneity. Structuring my life and avoiding chaos was more important.
Angela Merkel
Life
Face
My Life
Important
Chaos
Bit
Though
More
Detrimental
Spontaneity
Know
Always
Maybe
Wanted
Next
Avoiding
Even
Herr Schroder has conducted two electoral campaigns, and he is doing it again now, by not telling people what is really necessary. He keeps avoiding the difficult and uncomfortable issues, those that imply changes and therefore provoke discussions.
Angela Merkel
People
Difficult
Changes
Those
Telling
Uncomfortable
He
Imply
Doing
Issues
Campaigns
Provoke
Discussions
Again
Really
Electoral
Avoiding
Therefore
Now
Keeps
Necessary
Two
In my early 30s, I started to realise I was avoiding something on a personal level, but also as a writer. I was in denial about who I was, and was trying to be someone who I was not.
Ayad Akhtar
Denial
About
Someone
Something
Writer
Also
Trying
Personal
Personal Level
Realise
Avoiding
Who
Level
Early
Started
Somehow, the company must stay true to the founding vision while avoiding the pitfalls of rapid growth - and perhaps survive the hiring of a previously successful executive who doesn't work out.
Bing Gordon
Work
Vision
Out
Rapid
Rapid Growth
Must
Stay
Stay True
Somehow
True
Perhaps
Executive
Hiring
Survive
Pitfalls
While
Work Out
Successful
Avoiding
Who
Company
Founding
Growth
Whether by a Mack truck or by heart failure or faulty lungs, death happens. But life isn't really just about avoiding death, is it? It's about living.
Charity Sunshine Tillemann-Dick
Life
Death
Failure
Heart
Living
Faulty
Mack
About
Truck
Just
Happens
Whether
Really
Avoiding
Lungs
It's all about being flexible, and avoiding choices whenever possible. Choices suck, they are inherently limiting.
Craig Armstrong
Possible
About
Limiting
Whenever
Being
Choices
Flexible
Inherently
Avoiding
Suck
I've got a really canny knack for avoiding big punches or clean punches.
David Haye
Big
Punches
Clean
Knack
Got
Really
Avoiding
If something's stressful I've always tended to just find ways of avoiding it rather than rising to meet it or try to change it.
Derren Brown
Change
Try
Meet
Ways
Find
Something
Rising
Rather
Always
Than
Just
Avoiding
Stressful
I've found a formula for avoiding these exaggerated fears of age; you take care of every day - let the calendar take care of the years.
Ed Wynn
Day
You
Age
Every Day
Care
Fears
Every
Exaggerated
Take
Take Care
Calendar
Years
Formula
Avoiding
Found
I think it is important for software to avoiding imposing a cognitive style on workers and their work.
Edward Tufte
Work
Important
Style
Think
Software
Imposing
Workers
Avoiding
Cognitive
Life is a series of avoiding horrible situations until ultimately you're dead. That's how I feel about things.
Eli Roth
Life
You
Life Is A
Horrible
About
Feel
Until
Dead
How
Ultimately
Situations
Avoiding
Series
Things
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
Character
Son
Reality
Coffee
Become
Hell
Addicted
Addictions
Television
Dream
About
Various
Through
Lead
Escape
Which
Chocolate
Avoiding
Routes
Her
Basis
The art of natural education consists in ignoring the faults of children nine times out of ten, in avoiding immediate interference, which is usually a mistake, and devoting one's whole vigilance to the control of the environment in which the child is growing up, to watching the education which is allowed to go on by itself.
Ellen Key
Education
Art
Mistake
Natural
Control
Nine
Immediate
Faults
Consists
Out
Ten
Allowed
Environment
Go
Up
Itself
Times
Child
Children
Which
Interference
Ignoring
Vigilance
Avoiding
Whole
Growing
Growing Up
Watching
As my marriage was slowly dissolving into silent meals and awkward nights of avoiding conversation, I started pondering an unmarried future and wondered if I'd ever be able to hack being single again.
Emily V. Gordon
Future
Conversation
Marriage
Single
Nights
Unmarried
Silent
Able
Slowly
Hack
Wondered
Being
Again
Meals
Avoiding
Ever
Awkward
Started
My goal and mission is to be very strong in avoiding back steps. I leave judgments, evaluations and analysis to the media, then to the observers.
Enrico Letta
Strong
Analysis
Back
Observers
Steps
Mission
Judgments
Leave
Goal
Very
Then
Avoiding
Media
Evolution is the key to avoiding the whole issue of God. When you challenge evolution, you're basically challenging someone on a spiritual level.
Frank Peretti
God
Spiritual
You
Key
Challenge
Evolution
Someone
Issue
Avoiding
Whole
Challenging
Level
Basically
When I was 18 years old, in a more innocent time, my first backpacking trip through Europe, I sneaked into the Temple of Saturn in the Roman Forum after nightfall and spent several hours in there avoiding the guards patrolling.
Guy Gavriel Kay
Time
Old
Innocent
First
Guards
Several
Spent
Temple
Trip
More
Through
Hours
Years
Roman
After
Avoiding
Forum
Europe
Saturn
Hillbillies learn from an early age to deal with uncomfortable truths by avoiding them or by pretending better truths exist. This tendency might make for psychological resilience, but it also makes it hard for Appalachians to look at themselves honestly.
J. D. Vance
Age
Better
Pretending
Honestly
Tendency
Uncomfortable
Look
Also
Make
Learn
Deal
Makes
Exist
Truths
Psychological
Them
Might
Themselves
Hard
Avoiding
Resilience
Early
Early Age
In today's YouTube world, are officers reluctant to get out of their cars and do the work that controls violent crime? Are officers answering 911 calls but avoiding the informal contact that keeps bad guys from standing around, especially with guns?
James Comey
Work
Today
World
Car
Crime
YouTube
Out
Bad
Guns
Bad Guys
Guys
Reluctant
Contact
Calls
Around
Answering
Get
Officers
Controls
Informal
Avoiding
Standing
Keeps
Violent
I practically lived in the woods when I was a kid, avoiding grown-ups and my dysfunctional family, pretending I was half-wolf, a feral child who napped in nests made out of ferns, ate wild blueberries, and wove sticks and feathers into her hair.
Jennifer McMahon
Family
Feathers
Made
Pretending
Hair
Wild
Kid
Out
Ate
Practically
Sticks
Child
Woods
Dysfunctional
Avoiding
Who
Lived
Grown-Ups
Her
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