Approach Quotes

The most disagreeable thing that your worst enemy says to your face does not approach what your best friends say behind your back. (Alfred de Musset)
If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality. View quote
Norman Cousins
Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach. View quote
Anthony Robbins
Just because you are CEO, don't think you have landed. You must continually increase your learning, the way you think, and the way you approach the organization. I've never forgotten that. View quote
Indra Nooyi
Some people approach every problem with an open mouth. View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
Culture's essential service to a religion is to destroy intellectual idolatry, the recurrent tendency in religion to replace the object of its worship with its present understanding and forms of approach to that object. View quote
Northrop Frye
When the wedding march sounds the resolute approach, the clock no longer ticks, it tolls the hour. The figures in the aisle are no longer individuals, they symbolize the human race. View quote
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
The iPod completely changed the way people approach music. View quote
Karl Lagerfeld
Philosophers are never quite sure what they are talking about - about what the issues really are - and so often it takes them rather a long time to recognize that someone with a somewhat different approach (or destination, or starting point) is making a contribution. View quote
Daniel Dennett
To eliminate the discrepancy between men's plans and the results achieved, a new approach is necessary. Morphological thinking suggests that this new approach cannot be realized through increased teaching of specialized knowledge. This morphological analysis suggests that the essential fact has been overlooked that every human is potentially a genius. Education and dissemination of knowledge must assume a form which allows each student to absorb whatever develops his own genius, lest he become frustrated. The same outlook applies to the genius of the peoples as a whole. View quote
Fritz Zwicky
Fit no stereotypes. Don't chase the latest management fads. The situation dictates which approach best accomplishes the team's mission. (Colin Powell)
Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time... The wait is simply too long. View quote
Leonard Bernstein
On the approach of spring I withdraw without reluctance from the noisy and extensive scene of crowds without company, and dissipation without pleasure. View quote
Edward Gibbon
I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect. View quote
Jiddu Krishnamurti
Indian religion has always felt that since the minds, the temperaments and the intellectual affinities of men are unlimited in their variety, a perfect liberty of thought and of worship must be allowed to the individual in his approach to the Infinite. View quote
Sri Aurobindo
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. View quote
Steve Jobs
I approach these questions unwillingly, as they are sore subjects, but no cure can be effected without touching upon and handling them. View quote
Livy
For too long, many nations, including my own, tolerated, even excused, oppression in the Middle East in the name of stability. Oppression became common, but stability never arrived. We must take a different approach. We must help the reformers of the Middle East as they work for freedom, and strive to build a community of peaceful, democratic nations. View quote
George W. Bush
I had become, with the approach of night, once more aware of loneliness and time - those two companions without whom no journey can yield us anything. View quote
Lawrence Durrell
Bodybuilding is much like any other sport. To be successful, you must dedicate yourself 100% to your training, diet and mental approach. View quote
Arnold Schwarzenegger
The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust. (Samuel Butler (novelist))
At times is it seems that I am living my life backward, and that at the approach of old age my real youth will begin. My soul was born covered with wrinkles-wrinkles that my ancestors and parents most assiduously put there and that I had the greatest trouble removing. View quote
André Gide
When I approach a child, he inspires in me two sentiments; tenderness for what he is, and respect for what he may become. View quote
Louis Pasteur
I approach playing acoustic guitar more of as a percussive instrument. It's fragile. I don't have a lot of finesse when it comes to my guitar playing. View quote
Billie Joe Armstrong
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. View quote
Carroll Quigley