quotes about Approach
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The approach of death certainly concentrates the mind.
-- A. N. Wilson -
I hate to spoil my own prospects, but I really don't respect the kiss-and-tell approach to public life at all, not at all.
-- Alexander Downer -
I am not getting any younger and am taking a new approach to life.
-- Alfre Woodard -
Myth embodies the nearest approach to absolute truth that can be stated in words.
-- Ananda CoomaraswamySource : Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy, Rama P. Coomaraswamy (2004). “The Essential Ananda K. Coomaraswamy”, p.273, World Wisdom, Inc
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This multicultural approach, saying that we simply live side by side and live happily with each other has failed. Utterly failed.
-- Angela Merkel -
This (multicultural) approach has failed, utterly failed,
-- Angela Merkel -
We approach closer and closer to socialism.
-- B. Carroll Reece -
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Approach each asana with freshness every day.
-- B.K.S. Iyengar -
It is simply economically impossible to require controls that even approach zero emissions.
-- Barry CommonerSource : Interview With Alan Hall, www.scientificamerican.com. June 23, 1997.
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I have a rather naive approach, I think, to my job.
-- Ben Kingsley -
Approach each new problem not with a view of finding what you hope will be there, but to get the truth.
-- Bernard Baruch -
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Approach each new day as a new opportunity to be the person you aspire to be.
-- Bill CourtneySource : Bill Courtney (2014). “Against the Grain: A Coach's Wisdom on Character, Faith, Family, and Love”, p.8, Weinstein Publishing
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The Japanese actually approach the music on a high level. It's always been on a high level.
-- Billy Higgins -
That's kind of how I approach life and football; why dwell on something that's hasn't happened.
-- Brett Favre -
Not often do you approach a character where people know more about him than you do
-- Chris Hemsworth -
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I don't approach fashion; fashion approaches me!
-- Daphne Guinness -
I don't have a very disciplined approach to practicing or anything, but I do tend to have a guitar around most of the time, which I strum on most of the day.
-- David Gilmour -
I approach directing from an actor's standpoint.
-- Derek Magyar -
My mother wasn't a stickler for the more practical approaches to life.
-- Diane Keaton -
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Continental directors, as opposed to British and American, tend to be somewhat high-handed in their approach.
-- Donald Pleasence -
Your initial approach to a person can determine your feelings toward them,...
-- Dorothy Uhnak -
I am not limiting myself to theories, so I never question the rightness to my approach.
-- Edward WestonSource : Edward Weston (1973). “The Daybooks of Edward Weston: California”
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If we all knew we were going to live to be 150 years old, we'd all approach our lives very differently.
-- Eric Bogosian -
Essentially, pride is a 'my will' rather than 'thy will' approach to life.
-- Ezra Taft Benson -
Approach life knowing there will be plenty to go around. Be generous.
-- Frank McKinney -
To live an extraordinary life, you must resist an ordinary approach.
-- Frank McKinney -
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Sooner or later. It had better be sooner. Later is like the horizon; it recedes as you approach.
-- Greg IlesSource : Greg Iles (2002). “Dead Sleep”, p.257, Penguin
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The war on meth must be fought with a multi-pronged approach.
-- Greg Walden -
Everyone has their own approach to how they work.
-- Hayden Christensen -
I usually approach things with the idea that I will take something out of everything I do.
-- Heather Armstrong -
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Part of the maturity of the sciences is an appreciation of which questions are best left to other disciplinary approaches.
-- Howard Gardner -
Something in your voice tells me we approach the question of remuneration.
-- Iain Banks -
Time narrows or expands according to how we approach it. It varies with a man’s breadth, with his heart.
-- Ilya Ehrenburg -
Top-down approaches do not work. The bottleneck is at the top of the bottle.
-- Iqbal Quadir -
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Non-Newtonian calculi... have considerable potential as alternative approaches to traditional problems.
-- Ivor Grattan-GuinnessSource : "Non-Newtonian Calculus", Middlesex Math Notes, 1977.
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Our approach and our vision ... is identical.
-- Jacques Chirac -
It is a fundamental rule of human life, that if the approach is good, the response is good.
-- Jawaharlal NehruSource : Jawaharlal Nehru, Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Fund (1984). “Selected works of Jawaharlal Nehru, second series”, Oxford Univ Pr
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The English approach to ideas is not to kill them, but to let them die of neglect.
-- Jeremy PaxmanSource : Jeremy Paxman (2001). “The English: A Portrait of a People”, p.128, The Overlook Press
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The ideal way to approach a character is to find something in yourself that relates in some way.
-- Jesse EisenbergSource : "Jesse Eisenberg Talks Learning Magic, Reuniting with Woody Harrelson, Why He Signed on to the Project, and More on the Set of NOW YOU SEE ME". Group interview, collider.com. April 15, 2013.
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Don't take the casual approach to life. Casualness leads to casualties.
-- Jim Rohn -
You must change your approach in order to change your results.
-- Jim Rohn -
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There's a big tendency to gravitate toward a closed and proprietary approach too easily.
-- Jimmy Wales -
Mostly, I try to take a rational approach to life.
-- Jimmy Wales -
If you're willing to restrict the flexibility of your approach, you can almost always do something better
-- John Carmack -
My music, my whole approach to the synthesizer has completely changed now.
-- John Frusciante -
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I'd always maintained an image so that people wouldn't approach me.
-- John Lurie -
Necessity and chance Approach not me, and what I will is fate.
-- John Milton -
Poetry is rather an approach to things, to life, than it is typographical production.
-- Joseph Brodsky -
The main thing is to have a gutsy approach and use your head.
-- Julia Child -
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I dont think Paul Thomas Anderson has a standard approach to anything.
-- Katherine Waterston -
I get overwhelmed when I approach things intellectually.
-- Keegan-Michael Key -
The frontier orbital approach was further developed in various directions by my own group and many other scientists, both theoretical and experimental.
-- Kenichi FukuiSource : Kenichi Fukui (1997). “Frontier Orbitals and Reaction Paths: Selected Papers of Kenichi Fukui”, p.151, World Scientific
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I suppose my approach to religion is like my approach to music - I take what I want and leave the rest.
-- Lana Del Rey -
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I will always approach life from a small-town vibe. It makes experiences more fantastical,
-- Landon LiboironSource : "Hot Topic: Landon Liboiron" by Lauren Levinson, www.elle.com. April 19, 2013.
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Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt.
-- Laozi -
I suppose the secret of his success is in his tremendous idleness which almost approaches the supernatural.
-- Lawrence Durrell -
The sight of such a monument is like continual and stationary music which one hears for one's good as one approaches it. [Fr., La vue d'un tel monument est comme une musique continuelle et fixee qui vous attend pour vous faire du bien quand vous vous en approchez.]
-- Madame de Stael -
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Illness and death are not optional. Patients have a right to determine how they approach them.
-- Marcia Angell -
I approach my life haphazardly. Not much holiness and only as much wisdom as I can muster.
-- Marcus Mumford -
Ignorance of impending evil is far better than a knowledge of its approach.
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero -
Waiting to be 'better' is the wrong approach. It's learning to live with it.
-- Marian Keyes -
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My approach is that you have to earn the respect of people you work with.
-- Mark PincusSource : "Are You a C.E.O. of Something?". Interview with Adam Bryant, www.nytimes.com. January 30, 2010.
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There are three basic approaches to AI: Case-based, rule-based, and connectionist reasoning.
-- Marvin Minsky -
Our solutions must be beyond anything we have ever considered, .. We should not be afraid to try bold new approaches.
-- Mary LandrieuSource : "Katrina Inspector General Appointed". www.foxnews.com. September 16, 2005.
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It’s not important to develop your own style but your own approach.
-- Massimo Vignelli -
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If God were only mighty, we would Salute Him. But since he is Merciful and Mighty, we can approach Him.
-- Max Lucado -
A child did approach me in a restaurant in Cornwall, but he thought I was Gandalf.
-- Michael Gambon -
I don't approach a role by saying I'll be unsavory or unlikable.
-- Michael Rooker -
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My approach to acting is that I am totally intuitive. I read the script and I get it. If I don't get it, I can't do it.
-- Morgan Freeman -
Poetry is, above all, an approach to the truth of feeling.
-- Muriel Rukeyser -
Our economic approach to food and its distribution reflects our basic moral values.
-- Nelson Mandela -
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Early on I decided that I was going to lie to the press. The best approach to talking about my personal life was to lie.
-- Nick Nolte -
I never approach a character from a negative place.
-- Nina AriandaSource : "The Natural" by John Lahr, www.newyorker.com. November 7, 2011.
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I approach every role from scratch.
-- Paul DanoSource : "Paul Dano on Dream Girl Zoe Kazan Coming to Life in Ruby Sparks". Interview with Karen Kemmerle, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 26, 2012.
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I have always had a certain rhythmic approach to my work.
-- Paul Hirsch -
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The incremental approach without a strategy doesn't improve the strategy.
-- Pete HegsethSource : Source: www.foxnews.com
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The most creative approach is often the simple approach.
-- Phil Cooke -
In a true zero-defects approach, there are no unimportant items.
-- Phil CrosbySource : "Let's Talk Quality: 96 Questions You Always Wanted to Ask Phil Crosby". Book by Philip B. Crosby, 1989.
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Zen teaches that our approach to today determines our whole approach to life.
-- Philip Toshio Sudo -
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I just kind of had this naïve approach to - well, gee, you know, why not. I'll just go ahead and do it.
-- Pierre Omidyar -
To love is to approach each other center to center.
-- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin -
If we are to know the Lord, we must go to Him. Listen to Him in silence before the Tabernacle and approach Him in the Sacraments.
-- Pope Francis -
The approach is not to limit the choice, but to provide a broader choice. It's appropriate to have choices that are indulgent and others that are better for you.
-- Richard Wyckoff -
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I definitely have a Luddite's approach to what's going on. I find that as I get older, I get stupider.
-- Rufus Wainwright -
People are sheepish when they approach me.
-- Ryan Phillippe -
It wasn't until I discovered comics that I actually began to approach drawing as a possible career.
-- Scott McCloudSource : "Scott McCloud's 'Zot!' is out of this world". Interview with Patrick Montero, www.nydailynews.com. August 24, 2008.
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I object to a legal approach when settling questions of science or scientific behavior.
-- Serge LangSource : Serge Lang (2012). “Challenges”, p.288, Springer Science & Business Media
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All an investor can do is follow a consistently disciplined and rigorous approach; over time the returns will come
-- Seth Klarman -
You feel you can pretend to be young until you're 50, but after that, what happens and how do you approach it?
-- Sharon Horgan -
The best approach is to dig out and eliminate problems where they are assumed not to exist.
-- Shigeo ShingoSource : "Non-Stock Production: The Shingo System of Continuous Improvement".
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It is when we are in misery that we revere the gods; the prosperous seldom approach the altar.
-- Silius Italicus -
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The largest and most influential houses chiefly demonstrate the aloofness of the French approach.
-- Stephen GardinerSource : Stephen Gardiner (2002). “The house: its origins and evolution”, Constable & Company Limited
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Being business minded requires you to always approach things with humility and respect.
-- Strive Masiyiwa -
Work hard. Come early, stay late. That's the way leadership has to approach it.
-- T. Boone Pickens -
You do know, I hope, that no man under the age of forty can even approach fascinating.
-- Tasha AlexanderSource : Tasha Alexander (2013). “The Lady Emily Omnibus (Books 1-4): And Only to Deceive, A Poisoned Season, A Fatal Waltz, Tears of Pearl”, p.511, Hachette UK
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