Approach Quotes - Page 13

Those who approach life like a child playing a game, moving and pushing pieces, possess the power of kings.

Heraclitus

Kings, Children, Moving

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The devil is like a rabid dog tied to a chain; beyond the length of the chain he cannot seize anyone. And you: keep at a distance. If you approach too near, you let yourself be caught. Remember that the devil has only one door by which to enter the soul: the will.

Pio of Pietrelcina

Dog, Distance, Doors

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I urge you with all the strength of my soul to approach the Eucharistic Table as often as possible. Feed on this Bread of the Angels from which you will draw the strength to fight inner struggles.

Pier Giorgio Frassati

Struggle, Angel, Fighting

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You really need to approach each book as if you have been a failure. . . . If you start to believe your flap-copy, you're finished as a writer.

Louise Erdrich

Believe, Book, Needs

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Success is all about being able to extend love to people. The people I consider successful are so because of how they handle their responsibilities to other people, how they approach the future, people who have a full sense of the value of their life and what they want to do with it.

Ralph Fiennes

Responsibility, Successful, People

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I have no literary approach - except to literature.

George Balanchine

Literature

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The only way to even approach doing something perfectly is through experience, and experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.

Oscar Wilde

Mistake, Names, Giving

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Of late I have searched diligently to discover the advantages of age, and there is, I have concluded, only one. It is that lovely women treat your approaches with understanding rather than with disdain.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Understanding, Lovely, Age

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We can not understand each other, if our sympathies are always safely tucked away; we can not understand each other, if our approaches are always academic or conventional; we can not understand each other, if we crawl back into our shells every time we see a worm across our path.

Ameen Rihani

Shells, Path, Academic

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Happiness requires changing yourself and changing your world. It requires pursuing your own goals and fitting in with others. Different people at different times in their lives will benefit from drawing more heavily on one approach or the other.

Jonathan Haidt

Drawing, People, Goal

Jonathan Haidt (2006). “The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom”, p.242, Basic Books

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Growing up in a multicultural family, I never really felt that I was different - even though I was from most of the kids in my school. Especially with music, I try to just approach it as an equal.

Priscilla Ahn

Growing Up, School, Kids

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I was very adamant about not being called a jazz singer, but now I've embraced it. The way I approach music is through jazz, so I'm a jazz singer.

Dee Dee Bridgewater

Singers, Way, Jazz

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Why write if this too easy activity of pushing a pen across paper is not given a certain bullfighting risk and we do not approach dangerous, agile and two-horned topics?

Jose Ortega y Gasset

Writing, Two, Risk

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The film is better for me than the sitcom. But the sitcom is like much more practical approach, if I may say that, because of the cost. Everything costs money, a lot of people don't realize that.

Tommy Wiseau

People, Cost, May

Source: www.avclub.com

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I was hesitant to approach people. I'm socially awkward. But I was working on a number of memorials, and finally it dawned on me: These are memorials to people who wrote, so I should use their writing. That's how I started to quit.

Jenny Holzer

Writing, Numbers, People

Interview with Kiki Smith, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 26, 2012.

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Those titles, Executive Producer or actor, are unimportant. I always try to approach my role as an artist. The first thing you want to do, that you attempt to do as an artist, is to have some sort of input into the material that you are working on. That is how my process begins; I say to myself: "I want to do this kind of work or I want to do that kind of work."

Danny Glover

Artist, Trying, Titles

"Danny Glover talks trouble". Interview with Ja'nell Nequeva, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 19, 2009.

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The kind of approach that inspires me is taking what you've built and figuring out how to turn it into a new experience by expanding it smartly. The challenge is figuring out what's the best way to do that without totally jumping off of a cliff.

Steve Gaynor

Jumping, New Experiences, Challenges

"Why This Indie Game Studio Chose a Feminist Drama Over Guns and Zombies". Interview with Matt Connolly, www.motherjones.com. September 20, 2013.

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There is enormous need for professionals who know how to tell stories with narrative punch and nuance, who can work proactively and not just reactively, and whose approach is multi-faceted. We need more "useful photographers."

Fred Ritchin

Needs, Stories, Narrative

Source: www.motherjones.com

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In whatsoever manner it be, let me turn to God and become fruitful in good works. Nothing higher exists than to approach God more than other people and from that to extend His glory among humanity.I will place all my confidence in your eternal goodness, O God! My soul shall rejoice in Thee, immutable Being. Be my rock, my light, forever my trust.

Ludwig van Beethoven

Light, Rocks, People

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IBM uses what I like to call the 'hole-in-the-ground technique' to destroy the competition..... IBM digs a big HOLE in the ground and covers it with leaves. It then puts a big POT OF GOLD nearby. Then it gives the call, 'Hey, look at all this gold, get over here fast.' As soon as the competitor approaches the pot, he falls into the pit

John C. Dvorak

Fall, Giving, Competition

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The worth of my music will never be guessed or its value to mankind felt until the approach to it is consciously undertaken as a pilgrimage to sorrows.

Percy Grainger

Sorrow, Mankind, Pilgrimage

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I approach my work with a passionate intensity, acting as if its success depends entirely on me. "But once I've done my best, I try to let go as much as possible and have no expectations about how my work will be received by the world."

Sarah Ban Breathnach

Letting Go, Expectations, Acting

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Tough management is a way to approach work. It is a practical, reasonable, and organized way to get to decisions more easily, make the numbers on a consistent basis, have those around you understand where you stand, and increase the business.

Chuck Martin

Numbers, Decision, Way

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...approach change with an understanding of the process and an openness to the pain.

Elizabeth Lesser

Pain, Understanding, Process

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To approach the badlands is to find a gap in the known and expected world.

Robert Kroetsch

World, Gaps, Expected

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