Approach Quotes

FIB, n. A lie that has not cut its teeth. An habitual liar's nearest approach to truth: the perigee of his eccentric orbit.

To those who view the voyage of life from the port of departure the bark that has accomplished any considerable distance appears already in close approach to the farther shore.

The September 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon prompted a fundamental shift in the American government's approach to Islamic terrorism.

I think that being an artist is more an approach to life than an approach to work.

We like the idea of being a little divisive without making it into some kind of philosophical musical approach, and maybe we can convert some people to our view of the world.

When you're coming up with your philosophy and approach to performing comedy, you take special note of the things you disagree with as much as the things you agree with.

If you don't clarify your goal, you'll never identify the best approach.

Purpose should determine approach. At the end of the day, it's what we do, not what we purposed to do, that defines our lives and reputations.

I don't approach my acting as just saying a few lines and then going off-screen. It's a craft. I really invest in trying to make it a craft.

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.

What my work is, is my approach to it. It's the practice. And my work is about the effort that I make to get there. And I think if there's anything artistic, it's in that middle space.

I worked in sales. It was definable, it had a quantifiable approach to accomplishment that had a great deal of importance to me. It had a degree of clarity that I loved. And of course, it was core.

Our approach [to global security] has changed by the way we've elevated development. The biggest lesson is to recognize global responsibility.

The really simple approach to photography is a great balance to making the films.

Obviously the current approach on steroids both in professional sports and amateur sports is not working.

The way I approach stardom and the show, I'm like a politician. I'm an elected late-night official to do your work.

The approach to the offices of Girdlestone and Co. was not a very dignified one, nor would the uninitiated who traversed it form any conception of the commercial prosperity of the firm in question.

Some of the greatest discoveries...consist mainly in the clearing away of psychological roadblocks which obstruct the approach to reality; which is why,post factum they appear so obvious.

I think you get noticed a lot more as a brunette, but I don't know. People approach me, I think, but maybe it's because of the reality show.

Check disease in its approach.

Everybody has their own approach. I don't adhere to any one philosophy. I learn a lot from life and people - watching and other people watching.

Sometimes if your only approach is cutting spending at a time when the economy's contracting, then the economy will contract further.

As I said in my State of the Union address ensuring the security of the United States and the safety of our people demands a smart, patient and disciplined approach to the world.

The standard approach has been to pump up the dosage of chemicals ... Twenty percent of these approved-for-use pesticides are listed by the EPA as carcinogenic in humans.

If I switch showrunners and I get to stay on the show, I approach it like it's their show, and I'm here to write their music for them.

Documentary is, therefore, an approach, which makes use of the artistic faculties to give vivification to fact - to use Walt Whitman's definition of the place of poetry in the modern world.

Everyone has a different approach, but I like to shoot a lot of film anyway.

I operate the camera, I always do it when I'm the director, and I like to approach it as a documentary, finding the images based on what happens, as it happens.

Film and television essentially feel the same when you're doing it, because it's the same technical approach.

The human soul is to God, is as the flower to the sun; it opens at its approach, and shuts when it withdraws.

While I agree that homegrown terrorism and the jihadist threat deserve continuing attention, a single-minded approach ignores all other threats.

I've had a ton of fast-food jobs - it changes your approach to human interaction forever.

This 1965. We went to trial on our city. We were obviously borrowing tactics and strategy from the Black freedom movement, and we were echoing their approach to things.

Second edition of Earthworks I have the more traditional compositional approach, namely I write a piece from the piano.

I like to approach every day like it's my first, so this morning when I woke up I covered my body with red gelatin.

The way that I approach helping is to first make sure that I understand.

I'm not a hero or a superstar. I'm an everyday guy. I feel happy when children approach me. I feel that something good is happening in life when little kids recognise me.

Arimaa's a better game than I thought. It follows a fairly sound approach to making the game difficult for computers.

Injuries obviously change the way you approach the game.

I try to emulate his approach of really get the most out of people by allowing them to experiment and certainly allowing people to make mistakes.

I'm trying to entice people, and sometimes my information is very hard hitting. So I've always wanted to have a soft approach.

Paris is not a city I should care to approach for the first time after I had passed forty.

When we approach history, we are dealing with a conglomeration of irrational continua. Those who deal with history by nonrational processes are the ones who make history, the actors in it.

No one is black and white or good or bad or happy or sad or what have you. [All have] particular idiosyncrasies that make them fascinating and that's how I tend to approach a character.

Industries are fearful of legislation. But if you start in the marketplace and forge a solution, you get a lot less resistance - and often a more flexible approach.

If you want to make something that's aggressive and challenging and peculiar and strange and trying to step outside of a traditional approach, some people aren't going to like it.

I respect every opponent no matter their record, no matter their title belts. I approach each opponent the same way.

I'm not afraid to be a Russian Jewish romantic in my approach to anything, even in my animal divinities, or anything about the feeling.

My approach is always to try to be straight with people, especially about what my party can achieve.

No two situations are identical, but with years of experience you can usually find a comparison to something you did before, which shortens the process of deciding how to approach a job.