Approach Quotes - Page 40

• I think that [Paul] Bloom's approach - and others who take it - is not so much that there is a precise genetic basis to faith. But there is a genetic basis to a psychological predisposition that manifests itself as faith and religion under the right conditions.

  Richard Dawkins

  Thinking, Psychological, Bases

  Source: newrepublic.com

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• To me, the right approach is to say we are profoundly ignorant of these matters. We need to work on them. But to suddenly say the answer is God - it's that that seems to me to close off the discussion.

  Richard Dawkins

  Ignorant, Needs, Answers

  Source: inters.org

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• I speak as a private citizen and not as a representative of the Executive Branch of the United States government. The impression that people of faith are uniformly opposed to stem-cell research is not documented by surveys. In fact, many people of strong religious conviction think this can be a morally supportable approach.

  Richard Dawkins

  Religious, Strong, Thinking

  Source: inters.org

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• People are pulled towards the best in themselves, and spotlighting the right is a much stronger approach than nagging.

  Michelle Gielan

  People, Stronger, Nagging

  Source: www.goodreads.com

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• As a poet who has the tools for interpreting the poem differently, you can begin to deconstruct it. But the human being who's like, "I know about conversation, I know about language, I know about hard times," will approach the poem differently.

  Jacqueline Woodson

  Hard Times, Tools, Language

  Source: therumpus.net

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• With respect to Russia, my principal approach to Russia has been constant since I first came into office. Russia is an important country. It is a military superpower. It has influence in the region and it has influence around the world.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Military, Russia

  Remarks by President Obama and Chancellor Merkel of Germany in a Joint Press Conference, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. November 17, 2016.

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• My hope is that the president-elect [Donald Trump] coming in takes a similarly constructive approach, finding areas where we can cooperate with Russia, where our values and interests align. But that the president-elect also is willing to stand up to Russia where they are deviating from our values and international norms.

  Barack Obama

  Russia, President, Trump

  Source: time.com

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• I don't expect that the president-elect [Donald Trump] will follow exactly our blueprint or our approach, but my hope is that he does not simply take a real-politic approach and suggest that, you know, if we just cut some deals with Russia, even if it hurts people or even if it violates international norms, or even if it leaves smaller countries vulnerable or creates long-term problems in regions like Syria, that we just do whatever is convenient at the time.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Hurt, Real

  Source: time.com

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• I approach this with - with an open mind and I'll do it on the basis of a deep conviction with President-elect Donald Trump.

  Angela Merkel

  Mind, President, Conviction

  Source: time.com

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• One of the great qualities of Chancellor Merkel is that she is steady. She analyzes a situation. She's honest. Sometimes we've had disagreements, but when we do, it's very constructive. And we are consistently open with each other about how we should approach these issues.

  Barack Obama

  Issues, Quality, Honest

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I think that Mr. Snowden raised some legitimate concerns. How he did it was something that did not follow the procedures and practices of our intelligence community. If everybody took the approach that I make my own decisions about these issues, then it would be very hard to have an organized government or any kind of national security system.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Security Systems, Government

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• We do have to balance this issue of privacy and security. Those who pretend that there's no balance that has to be struck and think we can take a 100-percent absolutist approach to protecting privacy don't recognize that governments are going to be under an enormous burden to prevent the kinds of terrorist acts that not only harm individuals, but also can distort our society and our politics in very dangerous ways.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Government, Issues

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• If you intend on building a solid career, it's best to not worry about the major label approach. It's a trade-off that most true artists shouldn't have to make.

  Raheem Jarbo

  Artist, Careers, Worry

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• There may be a million microbes of misery floating about us. Never mind! They dare not approach us, they have no power to get a hold on us, until the mind is weakened.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Mind, Floating, May

  Source: tamilandvedas.com

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• It's just like they approach things on every movie I've worked on, very much as if it was a live-action movie. The character you're playing, even though he's a rooster and is really stupid, you approach it in the same way you would approach Hamlet, which is exactly how I approached it. But they give you the circumstances. "You're on the boat. You didn't expect to be here. You just climbed in a boat to maybe sleep. You don't even know why you climbed in the boat. You're really that dumb.

  Alan Tudyk

  Stupid, Sleep, Character

  "Alan Tudyk on making Moana's chicken noises and his fear of becoming Rogue One's Jar Jar". Interview with Esther Zuckerman, film.avclub.com. December 7, 2016.

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• We have a text before us, an ancient text, a living text, and we try to enter it, not only to decipher it, but to penetrate it, to become part of it, similar to the way every student becomes part of a teacher's texture. That's how I see our [with Frank Moore Cross] two differing approaches.

  Hershel Shanks

  Teacher, Two, Trying

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• To treat the history of Israel as I would treat the history of England or Russia or China; that is, an attempt at a scientific, historical approach.I am particularly fascinated with origins.

  Hershel Shanks

  Russia, Israel, Historical

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• [My approach to the Bible, history does really matter.] Everything matters. But I have priorities. For instance, for me to know whether there were two Isaiahs or one is less important than the text itself. Of course I read the arguments for and against. But it's not my task in life to say there were two or three authors of Isaiah's book, or how many authors there were of Deuteronomy. This is not what I'm doing.

  Elie Wiesel

  Book, Two, Priorities

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• It fascinates me to analyze these things and, yes, to see layers in the texts and the building up of Biblical literature. I think this provides insights that one simply does not get by the direct approach.

  Frank Moore Cross

  Biblical, Thinking, Building Up

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• Israel defined its God and its relation to that God in existential, relational terms. They did not, until quite late, approach the question of one God in an abstract philosophical way.

  Frank Moore Cross

  Philosophical, Israel, Way

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• My approach is not a scientific approach. For that, we have greater minds than mine. My approach is: I am in the possession of a text, it has survived so many centuries, and it is my task, my pleasure, to try to decipher it and find all the things that have been said about these few words by generations and generations of commentators. That is what I'm doing. I don't innovate anything. I'm just repeating.

  Elie Wiesel

  Mind, Trying, Tasks

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• There are surely many legitimate approaches to Biblical literature, and I think that it depends very much on one's experience and temperament which way one deals primarily with Biblical material.

  Frank Moore Cross

  Biblical, Thinking, Literature

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• As the filmmaker, yes, I have to look out for everybody. But I don't have to know everybody's approach.

  Denzel Washington

  Looks, Filmmaker, Knows

  Source: www.npr.org

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• By the way, everybody approaches acting differently. Like, I'm kind of sloppy and I like it kind of loose. I like to kind of play around. Some people don't.

  Diane Keaton

  Play, People, Acting

  Source: archive.azcentral.com

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• I have never seen white people who would sit, who would, who would approach a solution to their own problems nonviolently or passively. It's only when they are so-called "fighting for the rights of Negroes" that they nonviolently, passively, and lovingly, you know, approach the situation.

  Malcolm X

  Fighting, Rights, White

  Source: nyx.uky.edu

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