Aversion Quotations

Attachment and aversion are the root cause of karma, and karma originates from infatuation. Karma is the root cause of birth and death, and these are said to be the source of misery. None can escape the effect of their own past karma.

I deeply detest social distinction and snobbery, and in that lies my strong aversion to titular honours.

Jealousy - that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion.

Blogs are the main exception I make in my aversion to complex machinery.

I have an aversion to being mislabeled. Here's a label I'd accept: I'm an 'individual.' I'm someone who can't follow, and doesn't want to lead.

I have always had a certain aversion to heat. And for me, the name of the game on the stage is 'beat the heat.' It's always July under the lights.

In fact, this network, which we may identify as the Round Table Groups, has no aversion to cooperating with the Communists, or any other groups, and frequently does so.

Aversion toward the blind exists for the same reason that most prejudices exist: lack of knowledge. Ignorance is a powerful generator of fear. And fear slides easily into aggression and contempt.

The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion.

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.

I always had, deep down, a slight aversion toward the purely cerebral in music.

Evolutionary psychologists suggest that humans experienced evolutionary benefits from brain developments that included aversion to loss and risk and from instincts for cooperation that helped strengthen communities.

I've always had an aversion to looking sexy, but I've grown out of it.

I was raised Catholic, and I have an aversion to anyone who takes religion to the extreme.

I have an aversion to laugh tracks - the moment I hear a laugh track, I go to another channel.

I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.

Lower equity prices and higher financing costs should damp household and business spending, and greater uncertainty and risk aversion may also lead to more cautious spending behavior,

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

From a conceptual point of view it makes sense, given that the companies have worked together in the past. Dean seems to like big competitive metro markets. Gannett has an aversion to those, so it might make sense for the two to combine.

I have an aversion to news nuggets, so I find myself looking for sites that offer more analysis.

Humility, modesty, nonviolence, forbearance, honesty, service to guru, purity (of thought, word, and deed), steadfastness, self-control; and / Aversion towards sense objects, absence of ego, constant reflection on the agony and suffering inherent in birth, old age, disease, and death.

Risk aversion is rising in the market and investors are nervous about what will happen when U.S. equities open.

Our father would never tell us what it was he feared, but he had a most marked aversion to men with wooden legs.

When I was 5 and my sister was 3, we went on a family trip, and she ate cheese off the floor at an airport. My mother, a germaphobe, got very upset. My sister, of course, got a stomach virus, and ever since then, I have an aversion to cheese.

The overall low risk aversion environment means that these risks aren't being priced correctly.

Children of course are monstrously conventional, repelled at once by whatever is off-center, out of whack, unmanageable. And being an only child I had been coddled a good deal (also scolded). I was awkward, precocious, timid, full of my private rituals and aversions.

The crisis in the Middle East has caused a heightened risk aversion amongst investors. They are worried the fighting will weigh on government budgets, travel, leisure as well as profit growth.

To be loved, we should merit but little esteem; all superiority attracts awe and aversion.

Crime, folly, sickness and all phenomena must be contemplated with complete freedom from fear aversion or shame. Otherwise we shall fail to see accurately, and interpret intelligently; in which case we shall be unable to outwit and outfight them.

The concept of loss aversion is certainly the most significant contribution of psychology to behavioral economics.

When risk aversion is declining, money will flow out of the safe-haven Treasury market into riskier assets, ... High-yield bonds have increased in price in the past week; holders of junk bonds are doing well right now.

We have no aversion to peer-to-peer technology. For us, it is in some respects kind of a promising delivery method. We obviously have issues with its illegal uses, but to the extent that the use of the technology can be legitimized, we're all for it.

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.

[Peace] cannot be honorable or secure, if the sovereign betrays a pusillanimous aversion to war.

I've always had an aversion to debt.

I cannot but bless the memory of Julius Caesar, for the great esteem he expressed for fat men and his aversion to lean ones.

We are seeing an evolving new international economy. We are in the process of learning how it works as we are doing it, ... Fortunately, the trauma that came out of the Russian default created so much risk aversion ... we probably have time to be deliberative in determining how the (international monetary) structure ought to be structured.

We believe that some large-capitalization stocks will outperform the broad market if investors' risk aversion rises in response to increased volatility.

When you move amidst the world of sense, free from attachment and aversion alike, there comes the peace in which all sorrows end, and you life in the wisdom of the Self.

Everybody we've seen here today has an aversion to authority figures. They're afraid of their government, ... So the government has to reach out to that particular population if we expect to do anything with the number of cases we have here.

At the moment it seems like a pretty ring-fenced issue and it doesn't look like it's going to spill over into the market at large, but any risk aversion resulting from problems with trading would be dollar negative.

Things are still very volatile and there's been an aversion to technology all day.

When you have risk aversion in Japan, the normal day-to-day outflows that happen in a normal market environment slow down.

The risk aversion was a touch smaller today, but it was more of a toe-step into the markets that were beaten up badly.

Even though risk aversion might be on the rise and could drag on the dollar slightly, there is still a very, very strong equity flow going back into the United States.

Once you're sort of pigeonholed into something, it's quite difficult to get out of it. I have no aversion to playing a gay character again, but it would definitely have to be the right role.

During my early years, ... we tried to do everything in the least expensive way possible our public improvements, grading. There was even an aversion to charging developers any amount of money (for public facilities). If we can't do it ourselves, we said, we shouldn't charge the developers.

The results were spectacular. The region associated with aversion was activated the moment the subjects looked at certain images.

Increased aversion in emerging market countries during March resulted in the rand losing ground against its major trading partners.

If risk aversion goes up there could be profit-taking in the equity markets and that is a major risk.

If there had been a proper decision to go to war last night then there would have been a drop in risk aversion but instead we are still stumbling in the dark.

I walk fast. I have an aversion to wasting time. My sense of constant motion is one of the reasons that my eldest daughter, Amy, nicknamed me 'the Tasmanian Devil' when she was in her teens.

The better tone in global equity markets as crude prices moderate a bit has helped ease risk aversion concerns, to the dollar's benefit.

I have three older sisters who, when we were children, used to hold me down on a bad day and put make-up all over me, so I've had an aversion to it all my life and hate sitting down in the make-up chair.

Letting go is not the same as aversion, struggling to get rid of something. We cannot genuinely let go of what we resist. What we resist and fear secretly follows us even as we push it away. To let go of fear or trauma, we need to acknowledge just how it is. We need to feel it fully and accept that it is so. It is as it is. Letting go begins with letting be.

The senses have been conditioned by attraction to the pleasant and aversion to the unpleasant: a man should not be ruled by them; they are obstacles in his path.

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.

You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, 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 el

As pressures on Brazil appear to increase, the market is starting to adopt a view that we're going to see more investor risk aversion and kind of a prolonged period of muted global capital flows. There are so many risks out there that people are thinking about all the damage to their profit lines.

I chiefly made it my own care to initiate her very infancy in the rudiments of virtue, and to impress upon her tender years a young odium and aversion to the very sight of men.

Man can start with aversion and end with love, but if he begins with love and comes round to aversion he will never get back to love.

He was the soul of politeness to everyone -- to some with a hint of aversion, to others with a hint of respect.

It might, too, have been the singular cold that alienated me; for such chilliness was abnormal on so hot a day, and the abnormal always excites aversion, distrust, and fear.

Business was his aversion; Pleasure was his business.

Love receives its death-wound from aversion, and forgetfulness buries it.

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.

I found English to be a sort of Thomas Hardy aversion therapy.

A gentleman's park is my aversion. It is not beauty because it is not nature.

As we have seen there is some kind of continuity in any case since every experience affects for better or worse the attitudes which help decide the quality of further experiences, by setting up certain preference and aversion, and making it easier or harder to act for this or that end.

To cultivate equanimity we practice catching ourselves when we feel attraction or aversion, before it hardens into grasping or negativity.

'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.

The unattractive thing about chauvinism is not so much the aversion to other nations as the love of one's own.

I have the greatest aversion to being a candidate on a ticket with a man whose record as an upright public man is to be in question--to be defended from the beginning to the end.

To have the same desires and the same aversion is assuredly a firm bond of friendship.

The old endless chain of love, tolerance, indifference, aversion and disgust

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.

I have a congenital aversion to failure.

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.

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.

Facts are plain spoken; hopes and figures are its aversion.

It is dangerous and harmful to be guided in our life's course by hatreds and aversions, for they are wasteful of energy and limit and twist the mind and prevent it from perceiving the truth.

We must each learn to feel comfortable in our own uniqueness by rising above the fear of being wrong and the aversion to being different.

I am principled against this kind of traffic in the human species . . . and to disperse the families I have an aversion.

I always had an aversion to your apostles of freedom; each but sought for himself freedom to do what he liked.

I will not hide my tastes or aversions...If you are true, but not in the same truth with me, cleave to your companions; I will seek my own.

The virtue in most request is conformity.