Quotation Explorer - 'Approach'

Problems can usually be solved with simple, mundane solutions. That means there’s no glamorous work. You don’t get to show off your amazing skills. You just build something that gets the job done and then move on. This approach may not earn you oohs and aahs, but it lets you get on with it. - Jason Fried
My approach is different. My mistakes are conscious mistakes. And I learn more than those I despise way too often than those I admire. - Harshit Walia
If you think you are unworthy to pray, that thought is not coming from Jesus Christ. More than anything, He wants us to approach Heavenly Father, to have our prayers heard and answered. - Toni Sorenson
So often we focus on finding answers to life's mysteries...when in reality, a wiser approach is to start asking better questions, and more of them. - Dana Gore
When we try to focus our thought upon One who is pure uncreated being we may see nothing at all, for He dwelleth in light that no man can approach unto. Only by faith and love are we able to glimpse Him as He passes by our shelter in the cleft of the rock. - A.W. Tozer
Don’t approach a dragon from the front, a jakkar from the back or a norn from any side. Annuan saying. - Taylor Grace
The most creative approach is often the simple approach. - Phil Cooke
You have to take your own bold approach, and if you do you will be rewarded with success. Or calamitous failure. That can happen too. - Steven Moffat
The best way to solve a problem is not to think of it as a problem but just as a difficulty or a challenge. Technically, the obstacle is the same, but you'll be able to approach it with a positive attitude that sharpens the mind and beats a path towards more solutions in the future. - A. G. Roemmers
The philosophy of project-based homeschooling this particular approach to helping children become strong thinkers, learners, and doers is dependent upon the interest and the enthusiastic participation and leadership of the learners themselves, the children. - Lori McWilliam Pickert
No Condemnation now I dread,Jesus, and all in Him, is mineAlive in Him, my Living Head,And clothed in Righteousness Divine,Bold I approach th' eternal Throne,And claim the Crown, through Christ my own - Charles Wesley
If the people can’t comprehend or don’t want to apprehend the approach of a person being honest in own attitude towards resolving any issues, then they will squarely put the blame or burden on him by saying that he lacks ability to make them understand his views. - Anuj Somany
let's forget the hope, it's the secondary thing to motivate.the primary one is to approach for it. - kurbhatt
Christians ought to have a different approach to business. As believers, we should view work as both service and a form of worship. - Charles W. Colson
The nearer persons come to each other, the greater is the room and the more are the occasions for courtesy; but just in proportion to their approach the gentleness of most men diminishes. - George MacDonald
We can gain no lasting peace if we approach it with suspicion and mistrust or with fear. We can gain it only if we proceed with the understanding, the confidence, and the courage which flow from conviction. - Franklin D. Roosevelt
In a true zero-defects approach, there are no unimportant items.
Ah, what a sign it is of evil life, where death's approach is seen so terrible! - William Shakespeare
They (religions) dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight and scowl on the fatal harbinger announcing the subversions of the duperies on which they live. - Thomas Jefferson
Unchecked pride evolves into swagger, a hypnotizing mask of insecurity that can and does compromise our ability to make progress and attain power. Pride stands in the way of forgiveness and a strategic approach to navigating a chessboard rigged to prevent pawns from becoming kings and queens. - Jason Whitlock
See if you can approach your own practice with a healthy combination of mindfulness, playfulness, precision, and curiosity - Cyndi Lee
Neither any one in this world is born as our friend nor born as our enemy.Our behavior, attitude & approach makes them become either one. - Moses Tiko Lungu
Two lovers, two islands that approach alone. (Deux amoureux, deux îles - Qui se rapprochent toutes seules. - Charles de Leusse
I think there are writers who take a quieter approach to their work one that is just about respectfully showing up for your vocation day after day, steadily doing your best, and letting go of the results. Not going to war against anyone else, or against their talents, or against themselves. - Elizabeth Gilbert
Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen. - Mark Twain
Smiling is definitely one of the best beauty remedies. If you have a good sense of humor and a good approach to life, that’s beautiful. - Rashida Jones
We had the experience but missed the meaning. And approach to the meaning restores the experience in a different form. - T.S. Eliot
I am not a genius but I approach every situation with love. - Debasish Mridha
In terms of doing things I take a fairly scientific approach to why things happen and how they happen. I don't know if there's a god or not... - Bill Gates
The most progressive approach to life is to discuss ideas than people. - Gift Gugu Mona
Showing respect for others when they don’t agree with you, and during the times when you don’t agree with them as well, helps to avoid arguments that serve no good purpose. This approach can lead to getting things accomplished peacefully. - Ellen J. Barrier
It strikes me as unfortunate that this approach - affording the same dignity to and investing in the same quality for a poor child as you would for your own - is so often received as provocative. - Jacob Lief
Our dreams seldom approach us; the rule is this: We must approach them! - Mehmet Murat ildan
It is only through fiction and the dimension of the imaginary that we can learn something real about individual experience. Any other approach is bound to be general and abstract. - Nicola Chiaromonte
A lot of people approach risk as if it's the enemy when it's really fortune's accomplice. - Sting
It is necessary for the future scientists interested in the field of Neurotheology, to have a bit naïve approach towards the whole idea of God and religion beyond the conventional labels of religion and atheism. - Abhijit Naskar
love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers. - George Santayana
Innovation is simply a holistic approach to exploring extra ordinary work to birthing products or services. Innovation is the magic! - Chidiebere Prosper Agbugba
I approach these questions unwillingly, as they are sore subjects, but no cure can be effected without touching upon and handling them. - Titus Livius
Sometimes a slow gradual approach does more good than a large gesture. - Craig Newmark
While I wholeheartedly believe in choosing to approach every challenge with a great attitude, I don't mean that we should abandon authenticity and live in fantasyland. - Charles R. Swindoll
The Responsive Classroom approach creates an ideal environment for learning--every teacher should know about it. - Daniel Goleman, PhD
* , a Thebian Greek wrote (circa 350 B.C.E.) War is sweet to those who have no experience of it. But the experienced man trembles exceedingly in his heart at its approach. - Pindar
Works of art are of an infinite solitude, and no means of approach is so useless as criticism. Only love can touch and hold them and be fair to them. - Rainer Maria Rilke
With the earth firmly beneath our feet, we can approach what attracts us, and withdraw from what unnerves us. If there is real danger, we can run. Mobility means security, both physically and emotionally. Flying takes away our most basic way of regulating feelings. - Capt Tom Bunn LCSW
When you approach something to photograph it, first be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence. Then don't leave until you have captured its essence. - Minor White
We cannot approach beauty. Its nature is like opaline doves'-neck lustres, hovering and evanescent. Herein it resembles the most excellent things, which all have this rainbow character, defying all attempts at appropriation and use. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Improvement is achieved by the ripple effect of a few simple changes in approach, attitude, or habit. - Dale Ludwig
In order to approach a creation as sublime as the Bhagavad-Gita with full understanding it is necessary to attune our soul to it. - Rudolf Steiner
The key distinctive of a truly Christian education...is the effective practice of worldview integration, that is, an approach to biblical integration that leads to a Christian worldview. - Martha MacCullough
War is the most evil kind of human approach; unless it is for good cause. - M.F. Moonzajer
So he earns your undying love by reading a book under a tree?" Cole said dryly. "Why didn't I ever try that approach? I like books and trees. - Brodi Ashton
Remember, there are two benefits of failure: First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn't work. And second, the failure gives you an opportunity to try a new approach.
Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn't work; and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new approach. - Roger Von Oech
I wish to approach truth as closely as is possible, and therefore I abstract everything until I arrive at the fundamental quality of objects. - Piet Mondrian
The iPod completely changed the way people approach music. - Karl Lagerfeld
Intellectuals that approach me, only serve to feeding my intellectualism. Imaginists that approach me, only serve to enhancing my Imaginism. It's impossible to feed my I, for I am the Greatest 'I AM. - Lionel Suggs
A positive attitude influences our behavior and dictates a successful approach. - Brian Michael Good
If you take the approach of earning your customers’ business every day and treating them well, they’re less likely to try someone else. - Marilyn Suttle
I usually approach things with the idea that I will take something out of everything I do. - Heather Armstrong
Not to see many things, not to hear them, not to let them approach one--first piece of ingenuity, first proof that one is no accident but a necessity. - Friedrich Nietzsche
Tough topics are only tough for those who don't want to approach conversation, who don't like problematizing the status quo and nuancing the narrative. - Monica O Montgomery
We can't see and we can't reach the true frontiers of our ignorance; we can only approach to it by extending our knowledge - Mehmet Murat ildan
I am pessimistic about the human race because it is too ingenious for its own good. Our approach to nature is to beat it into submission. We would stand a better chance of survival if we accommodated ourselves to this planet and viewed it appreciatively, instead of skeptically and dictatorially. - E.B. White
A person who can think differently and truly on his feet will always find it difficult to sit and fit as an employee in a workplace, for his attitude & approach towards the work will often hit the ego of most co-workers who can’t compete with him on his level of wisdom and wit. - Anuj Somany
Nothing in life is promised. Each day is a valuable opportunity to play an important role in this world. Treat each moment like it's the performance of a lifetime; approach every show like it's your first, respect it as if you've invested years, appreciate it like it's your last. - Carlos Wallace
One can no more approach people without love than one can approach bees without care. Such is the quality of bees... - Leo Tolstoy
The crime of book purging is that it involves a rejection of the word. For the word is never absolute truth, but only man’s frail and human effort to approach the truth. To reject the word is to reject the human search. - Max Lerner
THEY are afraid of nothing,' I grumbled, watching their approach through the window. 'Together, they would brave Satan and all his legions. - Emily Brontë
True compassion does not sit on the laps of renovation; it dives with an approach to reconstruction. Don't throw a coin at a begger. Rather, destroy his source of poverty. - Israelmore Ayivor
My mom grew up in Spanish Harlem and the Bronx and gave me an invaluable piece of advice for dealing with people in New York - if someone's bugging you just act crazy. I've modified her approach somewhat. Public displays of religiosity work just as well as feigning psychosis. - Waiter Rant
Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time... The wait is simply too long. - Leonard Bernstein
How much value do you want to get out of life? You get out what you put in. Approach your life with intent, courage, faith and hard work, and you’ll reap the beautiful value those sacrifices provide. That’s the way our strange world works. - Richie Norton
When you build a fence around yourself, you'll wonder why people are afraid to approach you, because the pride in the fence is the cause of your blindness. - Michael Bassey Johnson
Hold a retrospective approach in your spirit to figure out your loopholes and try to forge out for filling them for a lucrative self growth - Anshul Dubey
... which would enable him to prolong for the time being, and to renew for one day more the disappointment, the torturing deception that must always come to him with the vain presence of this woman, whom he might approach, yet never dared embrace. - Marcel Proust
You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door. - Henry Ward Beecher
hold value; not price, carry moral; not pride. be of compassion; not selfishness,humble in your approach to live and loving with your gift to share. - Nikki Rowe
Whether you approach your dreams on soft feet or in a breathless run, just so long as you acknowledge that your dreams are valuable and worthy of pursuing, then you’ve made it. - Devon Monk
Find your safe space. Approach it with grace. Listen to your body. And give yourself the permission to feel overwhelmed. You've weathered harsher storms. And the blue skies? They're on their way. - Robyn Kanner
From the systems point of view, it is evident that one of the main obstacles to organizational change is the largely unconscious embrace by business leaders of the mechanistic approach to management. - Fritjof Capra
The aftermath of someone’s death is vertiginous, a murky, shimmering mass; to look at it head-on is to see only the fog of emotion. One must approach it sideways, entering it by way of an exhumation of facts and retrospections . . . - Nicole Rudick
Meditate, Clear, Calm, Center, Ground, Empty your mind, Stillness. Be receptive to a new approach. Believe in the possibilities of new opportunities. - Akiroq Brost
If you keep taking an approach that continues to lead you over and over again to the same result, you just have to take a total new different approach to get to your desired result. - Abdulazeez Henry Musa
If your endeavors result in success of the company in a continuity of atleast a few years, you are a successful manager. If other companies followyour business approach, you are certainly an important manager withleader characteristics. - Eraldo Banovac
Approach each new day as a new opportunity to be the person you aspire to be. - Bill Courtney
The phrase, "American Dream", a lifestyle approach that doesn't require God's power, just ours, was coined in 1931 by James T. Adams. - Gary Patton
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