Avoidance Behavior Quotes

I flee what I can't fight. What can only do me harm.

It doesn't matter if the truth is right there out in front of your eyes. You will find a way, a mechanism, in order to keep your own system of denial. So as I always say it, denial is a river that runs in the - in Egypt. So we became very good in that.

People will do more to avoid pain than they will do to gain pleasure.

Clearly, all fear has an element of resistance and a leaning away from the moment. Its dynamic is not unlike that of strong desire except that fear leans backward into the last safe moment while desire leans forward toward the next possibility of satisfaction. Each lacks presence. (29)

Procrastination is another form of resistance

I don't like going out where it's really, really crowded.

Get through the moment. Avoid confrontation. Run away. That's pretty much how we get through our own lives, watching television. Smoking crap. Self-medicating. Redirecting our own attention. Jacking off. Denial.

Blow the candle out, I don't need to see what my thoughts look like.

Sometimes when things are way too big and I can't control it, I do sort of a weird thing where I kind of check out a little bit. It's all about self-preservation for me.

You can run from some problems, but then you get caught up in others.

I have stopped going out places just to avoid uncomfortable conversations.

If I read something that's really intense and depressive, I will face it; I will try - but there's plenty of times I also run away. I think it's trying to find a balance between the positive and the negative. They don't exist without each other. It's the polarity; it's two sides of a coin. You can't get one without the other. I don't wallow. I can't stand it.

I was the kind of kid, I'd sit in the back row of the class with my head practically under the desk. I was incredibly afraid of people and very shy.

half the good intentions of my life have been frustrated by my unfortunate habit of putting things off till to-morrow.

To be honest, sometimes I get in my shell, and I don't want to do stuff, and sometimes I'm real active.

To fear to face an issue is to believe that the worst is true.

I don't like to go out a lot. It's trouble.

When I was on 'SNL,' I was getting weirdly anxious about being on camera, which I had never really done before. And so my solution was just to not watch my stuff. And then I found out that other actors do it, too, and I felt less weird about it.

We want to avoid pain and have pleasure, so if our early attempts to achieve our dreams fail, we want to avoid the pain of future failure and rejection, so we stop trying and write it off with a broadbrush, "I'm just not driven enough, not well educated enough, not attractive enough, not smart enough."

I have one problem, I don’t hate people. They disgust me and I want to get away from them. I do not have hatred. I have an escape mechanism.

There were times when I got frightened. Things weren't going right, so I just went out and got smashed. That's me. Something goes wrong, I find a bottle. I don't like it about myself but I've done it before and I'll do it again. But I never vanished for days or held up shooting or quit the picture.

Procrastination is not Laziness", I tell him. "It is fear. Call it by its right name, and forgive yourself.

Although you hadn't asked why, it had less to do with you not noticing than with you not wanting to hear the answer.

What a fearful object a long-neglected duty gets to be