Approach Quotes - Page 20

• The method of teaching which approaches most nearly to the method of investigation is incomparably the best.

  Edmund Burke

  Teaching, Investigation, Method

  Edmund Burke (1824). “A Philosophical Inquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful”, p.3

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• Animals learn death first at the moment of death;...man approaches death with the knowledge it is closer every hour, and this creates a feeling of uncertainty over his life, even for him who forgets in the business of life that annihilation is awaiting him. It is for this reason chiefly that we have philosophy and religion.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Philosophy, Animal, Men

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• My whole approach to wardrobe is, throw it in a suitcase and make sure they don't press it, for Pete's sake, so I can try to display some rumpled charm. Actually, I'm just a pig. I've got coffee stains on my pants. I think they're coffee stains, anyway.

  Mel Gibson

  Coffee, Thinking, Pigs

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• Our whole educational problem suffers from a one-sided approach to the child who is to be educated, and from an equally one-sided lack of emphasis on the uneducatedness of the educator.

  Carl Jung

  Children, Educational, Suffering

  Carl Gustav Jung (1953). “Collected Works of C.G. Jung: The development of personality”

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• Persevere in labors that lead to salvation. Always be busy in spiritual actions. In this way, no matter how often the enemy of our souls approaches, no matter how many times he may try to come near us, he'll find our hearts closed and armed against him.

  Cyprian

  Spiritual, Heart, Soul

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• I think what everybody believes and agrees with, and to be frank myself, is that the current approach [to the drug trade] is not working, but it is not clear what we should do.

  Stephen Harper

  Believe, Thinking, Drug

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• People have tried to put me in a box my whole life. I'm too tall. I'm too pretty. Too Miss USA. Wonder Woman. Prettiest woman in the world. And all of that. It doesn't matter because I've gone my own way and have tried to approach my career from a gut level, doing what I thought was right.

  Lynda Carter

  Usa, Careers, People

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• I call my philosophy and approach compassionate conservatism. It is compassionate to actively help our fellow citizens in need. It is conservative to insist on responsibility and results. And with this hopeful approach, we will make a real difference in people's lives.

  George W. Bush

  Philosophy, Real, Responsibility

  Address on Compassionate Conservatism, delivered 30 April 2002, San Jose, California

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• The most ideal approach to advance is the way of opportunity.

  John F. Kennedy

  Opportunity, Way, Ideals

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• Basically, therefore, we should approach others openly, recognizing each person as another human being just like ourselves. There is not much difference between us all.

  Dalai Lama

  Differences, Should, Recognizing

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• All rising curves that show unwelcome trends in human affairs will approach infinity if extended far enough, but it is we who dictate the curve and not vice versa.

  Niels Bohr

  Curves, Vices, Rising

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• That kind of skeptical, questioning, "don't accept what authority tells you" attitude of science - is also nearly identical to the attitude of mind necessary for a functioning democracy. Science and democracy have very consonant values and approaches, and I don't think you can have one without the other.

  Carl Sagan

  Attitude, Thinking, Democracies Have

  Carl Sagan, Tom Head (2006). “Conversations with Carl Sagan”, p.130, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• If you are a minority or an interest group, the Democrats will hold the debate at your house. Whereas Republicans take a slightly different approach: they have a big tent - you're just not allowed in it.

  Jon Stewart

  House, Groups, Different

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• We need to employ a secular approach to ethics, secular in the Indian sense of respecting all religious traditions and even the views of non-believers in an unbiased way. Secular ethics rooted in scientific findings, common experience and common sense can easily be introduced into the secular education system. If we can do that there is a real prospect of making this 21st century an era of peace and compassion.

  Dalai Lama

  Religious, Real, Compassion

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• Creatures, like pictures, are fairest at a certain distance, but it is not so with Christ; the nearer the soul approaches Him, and the longer it lives in the enjoyhment of Him, still the sweeter and more desirable He becomes.

  John Flavel

  Distance, Soul, Christ

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• The Constitution does not vest in Congress the authority to protect society from every bad act that might befall it....[I]f followed to its logical extreme, [this approach] would result in an unwarranted expansion of federal power.

  Clarence Thomas

  Expansion, Doe, Might

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• Obama has paid and will continue to pay dearly for betting on his stimulus package. Because of it, the Bush recession is becoming the Obama recession much faster than it would have had he adopted a more gradual approach to solving economic problems. By jumping in immediately, as he did, in order to increase government spending and pass eight years of Democratic dreams in one day, he made the public expect a solution.

  Dick Morris

  Dream, Jumping, Eight

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• It is one of history's great ironies that capitalists built decent and humane societies on the basis of an amoral approach to the economics of pricing, whereas socialists built exploitative and inhumane societies on the basis of a morally inflamed approach to economics.

  Kevin D. Williamson

  Irony, Economics, Decent

  Kevin D Williamson (2010). “The Politically Incorrect Guide to Socialism”, p.22, Regnery Publishing

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• No totalitarian censor can approach the implacability of the censor who controls the line of communication between the outer world and our consciousness. Nothing is allowed to reach us which might weaken our confidence and lower our morale. To most of us nothing is so invisible as an unpleasant truth.

  Eric Hoffer

  Communication, World, Lines

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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• They [Americans] augur misgovernment at a distance and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze.

  Edmund Burke

  Distance, Snuff, Breeze

  "On Moving His Resolutions for Conciliation with the Colonies," 22 Mar. 1775

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• What begins as a Utopian vision, always - always - ends in bloodshed. Because you have to force a utopia on a free people. Free people want to pursue their own happiness, but a one-size-fits-all approach requires herding the free, against their will, into the state's idea of what's right. Then it's not utopia.

  Greg Gutfeld

  Ideas, People, Vision

  Greg Gutfeld (2012). “The Joy of Hate: How to Triumph over Whiners in the Age of Phony Outrage”, p.140, Crown Forum

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• For me, couture is the kingdom of imagination, creativity and experimentation, and this is how I approach it. I do, however, remain pragmatic and realistic.

  Giorgio Armani

  Creativity, Imagination, Kingdoms

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• Our approach has worked for us. Look at the fun we, our managers, and our shareholders are having. More people should copy us. It's not difficult, but it looks difficult because it's unconventional - it isn't the way things are normally done. We have low overhead, don't have quarterly goals and budgets or a standard personnel system, and our investing is much more concentrated than average. It's simple and common sense.

  Charlie Munger

  Fun, Simple, Average

  "Charlie Munger Speaks". Charlie Munger's comments on Berkshire Hathaway and Wesco at the 2000 Wesco Financial Annual Meeting, www.fool.com. May 15, 2000.

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• Our approach is very much profiting from lack of change rather than from change.

  Warren Buffett

  Investing Money, Gum, Buffets

  "Ten pieces of investment advice from America's greatest investor" by Schuyler Velasco, www.cnbc.com. August 30, 2013.

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• Shall we all be saved? Shall we go to Heaven? Alas, my children, we do not know at all! But I tremble when I see so many souls lost these days. See, they fall into Hell as leaves fall from the trees at the approach of winter.

  John Vianney

  Children, Fall, Winter

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