120 Averse Quotes
Following is our list of averse quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about averse.
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Famous Averse Quotes
Go against the grain, refuse to conform, take the road less traveled instead of the well-beaten path. — Mandy Hale
To overcome a desperate situation, make a complete turn in one sudden burst. — Japanese Proverbs
Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There are some things one can only achieve by a deliberate leap in the opposite direction. — Franz Kafka
Cause change and lead; accept change and survive; resist change and die. — Ray Noorda
Resist. Unlearn. Defy. — Jeff Hardy
In a world driven by disruption, make sure you're on the right side of change. — Cathie Wood
Choose to chance the rapids and dare to dance the tide. — Garth Brooks
The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance. — Alan Watts
There are two ways to face the future. One way is with apprehension; the other is with anticipation — Jim Rohn
Embrace change. Envision what could be, challenge the status quo, and drive creative destruction. — Charles Koch
Don't fear change -- embrace it. — Anthony D'Angelo
Being, be bold and venture to be wise. — Horace
To change the world, you must be different than the world. To lead, you must go first. You must divert from the common path, you must navigate unmapped terrain. — Brianna Wiest
There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Short Averse Quotes
- It’s better to have a sparrow in one’s hand than a dove on the roof. — Polish Proverbs
- Risk, risk aversion, prices fall — Howard Marks
- A feeling of aversion or attachment toward something is your clue that there's work to be done. — Ram Dass
- I've always had an aversion to looking sexy, but I've grown out of it. — Kristen Stewart
- Better a sparrow in hand than a pigeon on the roof. — Polish Proverbs
- We don’t like failures. — Bernard Arnault
- Investment risk, high prices, optimism, skepticism, risk aversion — Howard Marks
- Better safe than sorry. — American Proverbs
- I think there’s a danger in politics of being too risk-averse. — Liz Truss
- The way to infinite joy is through the elimination of desire, - no attachments, no aversions. — Lester Levenson
Risk Averse Quotes
Over time, big industries tend to get flabby and uncreative and risk-averse—and if the right outsider company has the means and creativity to come at the industry with a fresh perspective and rethink the whole thing, there’s often a huge opportunity there. — Tim Urban
Investment risk comes primarily from too high prices, and too high prices often come from excessive optimism and inadequate skepticism and risk aversion. — Howard S. Marks
The pendulum of investment psychology is constantly fluctuating between optimism and pessimism, between greed and fear, between credulousness and skepticism, between risk tolerance and risk aversion. — Howard Marks
Value investing is risk aversion. — Seth Klarman
When you train your employees to be risk averse, then you're preparing your whole company to be reward challenged. — Morgan Spurlock
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
I also am not particularly risk-averse - I don't mind jumping off a cliff if I trust the people who've told me they'll catch me at the bottom. — Jeff Vandermeer
When people believe that every move they make is going to affect their compensation, they tend to get risk averse. — Teresa Amabile
In contrast to the speculators preoccupation with rapid gain, value investors demonstrate their risk aversion by striving to avoid loss. — Seth Klarman
I believe we are in a world where innovation in stuff was outlawed. It was basically outlawed in the last 40 years - part of it was environmentalism, part of it was risk aversion. — Peter Thiel
Averse Quotes
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
Ignorance is not a simple lack of knowledge but an active aversion to knowledge, the refusal to know, issuing from cowardice, pride, or laziness of mind. — Karl Popper
Pleasure is the first good. It is the beginning of every choice and every aversion. It is the absence of pain in the body and of troubles in the soul. — Epicurus
Aversion is a form of bondage. We are tied to what we hate or fear. That is why, in our lives, the same problem, the same danger or difficulty, will present itself over and over again in various prospects, as long as we continue to resist or run away from it instead of examining it and solving it. — Patanjali
Love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is only your aversion to it that hurts, nothing else. — Hermann Hesse
Once I’d anchored their emotions in a minefield of low expectations, I played on their loss aversion. — Chris Voss
To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions. — Marcus Aurelius
I'm not averse to being tied up in silk scarves. I like a man to take charge. There's something very sexy about being submissive. — Eva Longoria
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 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
Attitude Quotes
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude. — Thomas Jefferson
If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain. — Maya Angelou
Being black is not a matter of pigmentation - being black is a reflection of a mental attitude. — Steven Biko
Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you're going to live your life. — Joel Osteen
Every day may not be good... but there's something good in every day — Alice Morse Earle
One should remain as a witness to whatever happens, adopting the attitude, 'Let whatever strange things that happens happen, let us see!' This should be one's practice. Nothing happens by accident in the divine scheme of things. — Ramana Maharshi
It is our own mental attitude which makes the world what it is for us. Our thought make things beautiful, our thoughts make things ugly. The whole world is in our own minds. Learn to see things in the proper light. — Swami Vivekananda
Happiness doesn't depend on what we have, but it does depend on how we feel toward what we have. We can be happy with little and miserable with much. — William D. Hoard
Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it. — Lou Holtz
When you can’t change the direction of the wind — adjust your sails — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Give Value Quotes
All we are doing is looking at the time line, from the moment the customer gives us an order to the point when we collect the cash. And we are reducing the time line by reducing the non-value adding wastes. — Taiichi Ohno
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival. — C. S. Lewis
The most practical teaching of the Gita, and one for which it is of abiding interest and value to the men of the world with whom life is a series of struggles, is not to give way to any morbid sentimentality when duty demands sternness and the boldness to face terrible things. — Bal Gangadhar Tilak
For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes at every moment; but the surrounding atmosphere brings it to life - the light and the air which vary continually. For me, it is only the surrounding atmosphere which gives subjects their true value. — Claude Monet
We suffer much agony because we try to get from people what only God can give us, which is a sense of worth and value. Look to God for what you need, not to people. — Joyce Meyer
I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value. — Hermann Hesse
Before you come alive, life is nothing; it 's up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing else but the meaning that you choose. — Jean-Paul Sartre
Creative people have to believe in the value of their work. If you don’t have any belief then you can’t give anything—designing is an act of giving, and a belief in the value of the work fuels the desire to express something. It’s important to know what your values are and to take care of them. — Peter Saville
Seven Steps to Success 1) Make a commitment to grow daily. 2) Value the process more than events. 3) Don't wait for inspiration. 4) Be willing to sacrifice pleasure for opportunity. 5) Dream big. 6) Plan your priorities. 7) Give up to go up. — John C. Maxwell
I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs. — Joseph Addison
Aversion Quotes
I have lived as plain Mr. Jinnah and I hope to die as plain Mr. Jinnah. I am very much averse to any title or honours and I will be more than happy if there was no prefix to my name. — Muhammad Ali Jinnah
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
You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation...and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing else. — Hermann Hesse
Wake up and realize this is all made up of thoughts, just thoughts. Your appreciation of beauty is a thought; your aversion to an object that is ugly is a thought. Your craving or aversion is nothing but a passing thought in the mind. Realize this is just a thought and you will be free. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
In this world of Maya, which is averse to the Lord, full of trials and tribulations, only patience, humility and respect for others are our friends for Hari bhajana. — Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati
The demons aren't the noise. They are our aversion to the noise...when you can accept discomfort, doing so allows a balance of mind. That surrender, that letting go of wanting anything to be other than it is right in the moment, is what frees us from hell. — Stephen Levine
Make peace with silence, and remind yourself that it is in this space that you'll come to remember your spirit. When you're able to transcend an aversion to silence, you'll also transcend many other miseries. And it is in this silence that the remembrance of God will be activated. — Wayne Dyer
That is why we fly from the inner void, since God might steal into it. It is not the pursuit of pleasure and the aversion for effort which causes sin, but fear of God. We know that we cannot see him face to face without dying, and we do not want to die. — Nina Simone
Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am very averse to bringing myself forward in print, but as my account will only appear as an appendage to a former production, and as it will be confined to such topics as have connection with my authorship alone, I can hardly accuse myself of a personal intrusion. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
People Writing About Averse
| Name | Quotes | Likes |
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 Polish Proverbs |
73 | 1 |
 Howard Marks |
117 | 1 |
 Mandy Hale |
51 | 1 |
 Japanese Proverbs |
99 | 2416 |
 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
1772 | 14221 |
 Franz Kafka |
414 | 5328 |
More Averse Quotes
I can't quite define my aversion to asking questions of strangers. From snatches of family battles which I have heard drifting up from railway stations and street corners, I gather that there are a great many men who share my dislike for it, as well as an equal number of women who ... believe it to be the solution to most of this world's problems. — Robert Benchley
The British are supposed to be particularly averse to intellectuals, a prejudice closely bound up with their dislike of foreigners. Indeed, one important source of this Anglo-Saxon distaste for highbrows and eggheads was the French revolution, which was seen as an attempt to reconstruct society on the basis of abstract rational principles. — Terry Eagleton
You can change it, you can accept it, or you can leave it. What is not a good option is to sit around wishing you would change it but not changing it, wishing you would leave it but not leaving it, and not accepting it. It’s that struggle, that aversion, that is responsible for most of our misery. The phrase that I use the most to myself in my head is one word: accept. — Naval Ravikant
We don’t like failures. We try to avoid them. That is why with many of our products, we make a limited number. We do not put the entire company at risk by introducing all new products all the time. In any given year, in fact, only 15% of our business comes from the new; the rest comes from traditional, proven products – the classics. — Bernard Arnault
Why should a lobster be any more ridiculous than a dog? ... or a cat, or a gazelle, or a lion, or any other animal one chooses to take for a walk? I have a liking for lobsters. They are peaceful, serious creatures. ... Goethe had an aversion to dogs, and he wasn't mad. They know the secrets of the sea, they don't bark. — Gerard De Nerval
Some things are up to us [eph' hêmin] and some things are not up to us. Our opinions are up to us, and our impulses, desires, aversions–in short, whatever is our own doing. Our bodies are not up to us, nor are our possessions, our reputations, or our public offices, or, that is, whatever is not our own doing. — Epictetus
I can understand your aversion to the use of the term 'religion' to describe an emotional and psychological attitude which shows itself most clearly in Spinoza... I have not found a better expression than 'religious' for the trust in the rational nature of reality that is, at least to a certain extent, accessible to human reason. — Albert Einstein
The church is an organisation that institutionalises an aversion to homosexuality, it institutionalises gender inequality and it speaks from a place of teaching people being ashamed of their sexuality. — Hozier
The unattractive thing about chauvinism is not so much the aversion to other nations as the love of one's own. — Karl Kraus
REPARTEE, n. Prudent insult in retort. Practiced by gentlemen with a constitutional aversion to violence, but a strong disposition to offend. In a war of words, the tactics of the North American Indian. — Ambrose Bierce
To cultivate equanimity we practice catching ourselves when we feel attraction or aversion, before it hardens into grasping or negativity. — Pema Chodron
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