| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 6198c55 | He stepped down, avoiding any long look at her as one avoids long looks at the sun, but seeing her as one sees the sun, without looking. | anna-karenina avoiding flattery gaze love stare sun tolstoy | Leo Tolstoy | |
| 3081f71 | "Emotional intelligence does not mean merely "being nice". At strategic moment it may demand not "being nice", but rather, for example, bluntly confronting someone with an uncomfortable but consequential truth they've been avoiding." | avoidance avoiding being-nice emotional-intelligence eq truth uncomfortable | Daniel Goleman |