Approach Quotes

You really need to approach each book as if you have been a failure. . . . If you start to believe your flap-copy, you're finished as a writer.

A tragedy can turn out to be our greatest good if we approach it in ways which we can grow.

Complete independence will be complete only to the extent of our approach in practice to truth and nonviolence.

Religion is entirely a personal matter. Each one could approach his Creator as he liked.

I had read some books on the Baha'i Faith. I had read - I was looking into Buddhism and trying to understand sort of the agnostic approach, so there was just a bunch of stuff I was just looking at.

Without any kind of real ego on my part, I just thought, I'm going to approach the people I admire and see if they want to do something together.

Illness and death are not optional. Patients have a right to determine how they approach them.

In nothing do humans approach so nearly to the gods as doing good to others.

The nearer I approach death the more I feel like one who is in sight of land at last and is about to anchor in one's home port after a long voyage.

Ignorance of impending evil is far better than a knowledge of its approach.

Even while you're in dead earnest about your work, you must approach it with a feeling of freedom and joy; you must be loose-jointed, like a relaxed athlete.

When we approach love and creativity with the level of conviction that the powers-that-be in the world today are approaching hatred and destruction, then and only then will we have a chance.

It's hard to transfer one person's type of comic timing or approach to another person's. It's something you innately hear like a rhythm in your ear.

There are some scary statistics out there: one in five kids aged 10-17 have received a sexual solicitation or approach via the Internet.

I'm going to approach it as trying to do my best, but you can't do everything yourself. That's asking for bad things to happen.

Baseball can be a game of peaks and valleys. Mentally, I want to stay away from the ups and downs and just maintain a level approach.

I approach a comedy the same way I do a drama. I try to make it as real as possible.

Well every moment, every project is different. I took a very slow approach to acting, trying to really work with people I could learn from. And I got something different out of each experience.

I firmly believe that the Gandhian philosophy of nonviolent resistance is the only logical and moral approach to the solution of the race problem in the United States.

Filming is always a challenge because I'm not used to it. But I approach it head-on. I'm not technically brilliant, but it's the spirit that counts.

There are people in New York who feel I should have more of a hometown approach. I feel we have to be a mirror and reflect whats happening on the court.

In our long and obsessive passion for youth, we have - more than any other modern society - avoided direct approach to age and to dying by denying them in word, in fact, and - above all - in worth.

If you approach Cannes with a sense of humor, nothing is that bad. You have to take it for what it is; otherwise, its silly.

I've written quite a few things, but I've put it on hold for now to see how everything fits together. Then I'll approach it and write specifically to see how the pieces fit in the puzzle.

I think I could do better in my approach to application. I think I could do better in preaching practical sermons.

Hillary [Clinton] has a really broad approach to engaging people around policy precisely because she understands that there are so many different dimensions to each issue.

Ayurvedic medicine is ancient, and its resurgence is necessary because we do need the proper balance in our medical approach.

Funerals cost so much money, and are likely to be an additional source of stress in this recession - it's sad that we don't have a more humane, less commercialized way to approach burial.

I always loved music, but it's not something I thought I was gonna approach on a professional level.

What's going to be hard for me is to try to divorce myself as much as possible from what I wrote. I'll have to approach it simply as raw material and try to craft a film script out of it.

I always approach film as a fan.

The British people rejected politics as usual and government as usual. They want and need a new approach to running this country.

I used to need the character but as I've gotten older I need it less and less - I prefer to play some version of myself. To approach any acting job as me just being me.

As you embrace the process-oriented approach described in The Practicing Mind, you'll achieve better results in any endeavor.

I have long believed these types of collaborative agreements are a far better approach to federal land management than the contentious battles that too often sidetrack proper resource management.

When I approached Volume 1 of "Lucid," I realized I could tell something that only exists in four issues or I could roll the dice a bit and approach this as Season 1 of a TV show.

My approach is to be honest-really honest-and consistent. That is what any growth will take. It is an issue I think [young] generation can be courageous enough to comb through.

The horror genre has been for me an original way of taking an explicit visual and visionary approach to directing.

I guess the approach to song writing for me so far has been to use more chords and less math.

I like embracing kind of normal forms but am always trying to approach them as if no one's ever done that before. As if I'm literally the first person to ever write a book.

Sometimes you feel some artists are doing the same thing that you're doing but in a different field. But they have the same approach. Their method of research and gathering data is the same as yours.

I think therapeutic spirituality has largely been a help in the modern world. So the fact that people can approach religion with practical needs.

Barack Obama is facing a financial emergency on a grander scale. Yet his approach has been to engage in one of the biggest peacetime spending binges in American history.

Poetry is, above all, an approach to the truth of feeling.

Through a policy driven approach we have wage a war against poverty and we are confident we will win this war.

The way that I approach music has a bit of a sense of humor to it. Something slightly different that people can still relate to.

I have a very pragmatic approach to diets. Ones you can't stick to don't do you any good. Some people say, 'Just eat half of what's on your plate,' but I can't do that!

I believe we need a more opportunistic and democratic approach to lunar exploration, now that we're shifting from U.S. government-sponsored space exploration to private expeditions.

The fundamental truth guiding social justice comedy is that people are not shitty. That sounds cheesy, but that's how I have to approach it. Everybody has the capacity for change.

I am a big fan of Dos Passos' stylistic ability, his poetic approach to prose, but the ideas presented in the songs are quite different from those which he exemplified.