| 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. | love gaze anna-karenina stare avoiding tolstoy flattery sun | 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." | truth avoiding being-nice eq uncomfortable emotional-intelligence avoidance | Daniel Goleman |