Famous quotes containing the word avoid:
“Girls tend to attribute their failures to factors such as lack of ability, while boys tend to attribute failure to specific factors, including teachers’ attitudes. Moreover, girls avoid situations in which failure is likely, whereas boys approach such situations as a challenge, indicating that failure differentially affects self-esteem.”
—Michael Lewis (late–20th-century)
“The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so—or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)
“I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.”
—E.L. (Edgar Lawrence)