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• Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

  "Edgewalkers: People and Organizations That Take Risks, Build Bridges, and". Book by Judi Neal, p. 163, October 30, 2006.

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• We need what I have often called an ecological approach to the management of these resources and we do not have that now. We have the inertia of past habits, unsustainable habits.

  Maurice Strong

  Past, Needs, Management

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• I knew the Apple II was great when I bought it, but as I dug into the details it just completely blew me away the creative artistic approach that the designers had taken.

  Andy Hertzfeld

  Taken, Apples, Creative

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• The one thing you don't want is that stale sound when you've done a line so much you can't find a fresh approach to it. Drop it.

  Sammy Davis, Jr.

  Air, Sound, Done

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• If you approach an opera as though it were something that always went a certain way, that's what you get. I approach an opera as though I didn't know it.

  Sarah Caldwell

  Opera, Way, Certain

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• The soprano has all those other instruments in it. It's got the soprano song voice, flute, violin, clarinet, and tenor elements and can even approach the baritone in intensity.

  Steve Lacy

  Song, Voice, Elements

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• The essence of all religions is one. Only their approaches are different.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Faith, Essence, Religion

  Mahatma Gandhi (1968). “The Selected Works of Mahatma Gandhi: Satyagraha in South Africa”

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• Socialism is... not only a way of life, but a certain scientific approach to social and economic problems.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Eugenics, Way, Problem

  Jawaharlal Nehru (1963). “Jawaharlal Nehru on Community Development and Panchayati Raj”

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• Fit no stereotypes. Don't chase the latest management fads. The situation dictates which approach best accomplishes the team's mission.

  Colin Powell

  Team, Fads, Management

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• You should approach Joyce's Ulysses as the illiterate Baptist preacher approaches the Old Testament: with faith.

  William Faulkner

  Baptists, Old Testament, Ulysses

  "William Faulkner, The Art of Fiction No. 12". Interview with Jean Stein, www.theparisreview.org. 1956.

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• You are meant to play the ball as it lies, a fact that may help to touch on your own objective approach to life.

  Grantland Rice

  Lying, Golf, Objectivity

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• People are sheepish when they approach me.

  Ryan Phillippe

  People

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• Mr. Obama has an ingenious approach to job losses: He describes them as job gains.

  Karl Rove

  Jobs, Loss, Usa

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• That's kind of how I approach life and football; why dwell on something that's hasn't happened.

  Brett Favre

  Sports, Football, House

  "Sunday Conversation: Brett Favre". Interview with Suzy Kolber, www.espn.com. November 24, 2004.

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• Mary seeks for those who approach her devoutly and with reverence, for such she loves, nourishes, and adopts as her children.

  Bonaventure

  Religious, Children, Mary

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• Look, and it can't be seen.
  Listen, and it can't be heard.
  Reach, and it can't be grasped.
  
  Above, it isn't bright.
  Below, it isn't dark.
  Seamless, unnamable,
  it returns to the realm of nothing.
  Form that includes all forms,
  image without an image,
  subtle, beyond all conception.
  
  Approach it and there is no beginning;
  follow it and there is no end.
  You can't know it, but you can be it,
  at ease in your own life.
  Just realize where you come from:
  this is the essence of wisdom.

  Laozi

  Life, Dark, Essence

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• It has been said of garlic that everyone knows its odor save he who has eaten it, and who wonders why everyone flies at his approach.

  George Ellwanger

  Food, Cooking, Odor

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• I regard sports first and foremost as entertainment, so dry documentary narration is not for me. I like the 'let's forget our troubles and have some excitement' approach. I'm convinced you can combine this with reporting integrity and accuracy.

  Jack Brickhouse

  Sports, Integrity, Dry

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• We have not known a single person who has consistently or lastingly make money by thus "following the market". We do not hesitate to declare this approach is as fallacious as it is popular.

  Benjamin Graham

  Investing, Making Money, Single Person

  Benjamin Graham (2009). “The Intelligent Investor, Rev. Ed”, p.3, Harper Collins

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• A serious pacifist approach can't win wars against enemies whose only program is violence. That doesn't mean I think the US has fought terrorists so wisely most of the time since 9/11. But there are some enemies that need to be destroyed by force lest they destroy much much more.

  Philip Gourevitch

  War, Mean, Winning

  "Ask the Author Live: Philip Gourevitch on Osama Bin Laden". The New Yorker Live Chat, www.newyorker.com. May 4, 2011.

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• I Still Approach A Scene As One Would Approach A Guitar Solo. You Don't Exactly Know How You're Going To Phrase This Or That. Which I Think Is Beautiful. That Idea Of Chance.

  Johnny Depp

  Beautiful, Thinking, Guitar

  Interview with Iggy Pop, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 19, 2014.

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• I find confidence seductive. Confidence, to me, is being happy in your own identity and not being influenced by others. I find that quite seductive because I'm a 50-50 person: in some ways I'm confident, and in some ways I'm quiet, reclusive. [I] like someone who can shake me out of that and approach me.

  Theo James

  Seductive, Identity, Way

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• The great minds, the great works transcend all limitations of time, of language, and of race, and the scholar can never feel initiated into the company of the elect until he can approach all of life's problems from the cosmopolitan standpoint.

  William Osler

  Teaching, Race, Mind

  Sir William Osler (2001). “Osler's "a Way of Life" and Other Addresses, with Commentary and Annotations”, p.340, Duke University Press

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• There are a lot of problems involved in comparative history. You never know if you're getting the comparisons weighted rightly, you're bound to dominate one literature better than another. But I do see it as one of the ways forward for the future. I think it is a very important approach.

  John Elliott

  Thinking, Way Forward, Important

  Interview with Danny Millum, www.history.ac.uk. March 7, 2008.

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• The closer a man approaches tragedy the more intense is his concentration of emotion upon the fixed point of his commitment, which is to say the closer he approaches what in life we call fanaticism.

  Arthur Miller

  Life, Commitment, Tragedy

  Arthur Miller (2015). “Miller Plays: 1: All My Sons; Death of a Salesman; The Crucible; A Memory of Two Mondays; A View from the Bridge”, p.7, Bloomsbury Publishing

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