Approach Quotes - Page 3

• That is, we believed, the supreme duty of the parent, who only was permitted to claim in some degree the priestly office and function, since it is his creative and protecting power which alone approaches the solemn function of Deity.

  Charles Alexander Eastman

  Office, Creative, Parent

  Charles Alexander Eastman, Michael Oren Fitzgerald (2007). “The Essential Charles Eastman (Ohiyesa): Light on the Indian World”, p.9, World Wisdom, Inc

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• In youth, we get plenty of exercise through games and running around, but as middle life approaches, we settle down, literally and figuratively.

  Gene Tunney

  Sports, Running, Exercise

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• We believe very passionately that an international approach is necessary to achieve some of these goals.

  Bob Menendez

  Believe, Goal, Achieve

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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

  Years, Our Lives, Ifs

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• The way one approaches a wilderness story is to fashion a quest - find something that you are truly interested in finding or discovering.

  Tim Cahill

  Fashion, Art, Finding The One

  "Wild Life: An Interview With Tim Cahill". Interview with Erik Kancler, www.motherjones.com. March 25, 2005.

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• What we find is that if you have a goal that is very, very far out, and you approach it in little steps, you start to get there faster. Your mind opens up to the possibilities.

  Mae Jemison

  Goal, Mind, Littles

  "Mae Jemison looks to the future of space travel". Interview with Linda Lorelle, www.chron.com. September 11, 2012.

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• I was just talking about women, just in terms of understanding them as much as we can ever understand the opposite sex. I'm trying to let go of certain male approaches to things that you inherit, that you grow up with.

  Fred Ward

  Letting Go, Sex, Growing Up

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• All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern of the truth which from the separate approaches every true scholar is striving to descry.

  Abbott Lawrence Lowell

  Over You, May, Patterns

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• Today, the technology is there to give early and normally ample warning when a powerful tornado approaches. When a tornado strikes, all of us are at risk.

  Spencer Bachus

  Powerful, Technology, Giving

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• My theme for philanthropy is the same approach I used with technology: to find a need and fill it.

  Dr. An Wang

  Technology, Needs, Philanthropy

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• A person cannot approach the divine by reaching beyond the human. To become human, is what this individual person, has been created for.

  Martin Buber

  Individual, Divine, Reaching

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• In a true zero-defects approach, there are no unimportant items.

  Phil Crosby

  Zero, Defects, Items

  "Let's Talk Quality: 96 Questions You Always Wanted to Ask Phil Crosby". Book by Philip B. Crosby, 1989.

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• There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.

  Pat Riley

  Basketball, Teamwork, Motivational Sports

  Pat Riley (1993). “The winner within: a life plan for team players”, Putnam Adult

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• When I design buildings, I think of the overall composition, much as the parts of a body would fit together. On top of that, I think about how people will approach the building and experience that space.

  Tadao Ando

  Thinking, Space, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Of course life is bizarre, the more bizarre it gets, the more interesting it is. The only way to approach it is to make yourself some popcorn and enjoy the show.

  David Gerrold

  Acceptance, Loving Life, Interesting

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• The largest and most influential houses chiefly demonstrate the aloofness of the French approach.

  Stephen Gardiner

  House, Influential, Aloofness

  Stephen Gardiner (2002). “The house: its origins and evolution”, Constable & Company Limited

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• The approach of liberty makes even an old man brave.

  Seneca the Younger

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Men

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.

  Lou Holtz

  Inspirational, Sports, Attitude

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• There is a tremendous amount of support for the approach we have taken, which again is to base our decisions on risk analysis and thoughtful scientific process.

  Mike Johanns

  Taken, Thoughtful, Support

  "An Exclusive Interview: USDA Secretary Mike Johanns". Interview with Sam Gazdziak, www.provisioneronline.com. June 1, 2005.

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• I adopt a very simple approach. I observe and reflect real life and ordinary people and sooner or later that raises a laugh.

  Alberto Sordi

  Real, Simple, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Bloody men are like bloody buses - you wait for about a year and as soon as one approaches your stop two or three others appear.

  Wendy Cope

  Men, Years, Two

  "Bloody Men" l. 1 (1992)

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• Google is making a huge investment in developing the Ajax approach.

  Jesse James Garrett

  Ajax, Google, Investment

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• The reason why I have survived as long as I have survived is what my friends, comrades and supporters thought was an extraordinarily cautious approach.

  Ernst Zundel

  Friends, Long, Reason Why

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• We save limited resources in terms of who we are physically screening. The approach will allow us to pay more attention to those potential terrorists.

  John S. Pistole

  Sea, Limited Resources, Attention

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• Possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity.

  George Meredith

  Duty, Felicity, Possession

  'The Egoist' (1879) ch. 14

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