approach quotes

• Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen. (Mark Twain) [life/age/approach]
• Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby. (Walter Benjamin) [approach]
• To act with doubleness towards a man whose own conduct was double, was so near an approach to virtue that it deserved to be called by no meaner name than diplomacy. (George Eliot) [approach/virtue/diplomacy]
• Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) [approach]
• There are no better terms available to describe [The] difference between the approach of the natural and the social sciences than to call the former objective and the latter subjective. ... While for the natural scientist the contrast between objective facts and subjective opinions is a simple one, the distinction cannot as readily be applied to the object of the social sciences. The reason for this is that the object, the facts of the social sciences are also opinions -- not opinions of the student of the social phenomena, of course, but opinions of those whose actions produce the object of the social scientist. (Friedrich August von Hayek) [approach/facts/facts/student]
• The slow-witted approach to the HIV epidemic was the result of a thousand years of Christian malpractice and the childlike approach of the church to sexuality. If any single man was responsible, it was Augustine of Hippo who murdered his way to sainthood spouting on about the sins located in his genitals. (Derek Jarman) [approach/result/approach/church]
• Our enemies approach nearer to truth in their judgments of us than we do ourselves. (Francois De La Rochefoucauld) [enemies/approach/truth]
• I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged. I cannot blindly follow the crowd and accept their approach. I will not allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowledge has transcended that and I have come to understand that life is best to be lived and not to be conceptualized. I am happy because I am growing daily and I am honestly not knowing where the limit lies. To be certain, every day there can be a revelation or a new discovery. I treasure the memory of the past misfortunes. It has added more to my bank of fortitude. (Bruce Lee) [follow/approach/willpower/role]
• The approach of liberty makes even an old man brave. ( Seneca) [approach]
• Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain; and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer your approach to this certainty. (Adam Smith) [gambling/approach]
• Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen. (Mark Twain) [life/age/approach]
• Saints are simply men and women who have fulfilled their natural obligation which is to approach God. (Evelyn Waugh) [men/women/approach/god]
• I actually don't meet very many men because they are, I guess, afraid to approach me or think that I'm from another planet. (Claudia Schiffer) [men/approach/think]
• But, people are recognizing me more. Sometimes fans just approach me on the street and say how much they love the show. It's great to get that kind of feedback. (Catherine Bell) [people/more/approach/love]
• I learned in the last few years that it's really unhappy and really unsustainable to try and base your well being on something as arbitrary as record sale and critical acclaim and the interests of the public. All of those things are so fickle. So my approach now to music is I want to make records that I love, and I hope that other people love them, then that's OK. ( Moby) [being/sale/approach/music]
• I approach my work musically a lot in terms of the way maybe a jazz musician would approach an improvisation on a theme. (Andy Garcia) [approach/approach]
• I have a rather naive approach, I think, to my job. (Ben Kingsley) [naive/approach/think]
• I think it's probably honest to say that there's a certain powerful stillness that I remember admiring tremendously as I grew up. And that would be Spencer Tracy... and Bogart and that particular approach to the work. The stillness, the economy, the grace of that work, so they would have been then, my heroes on the screen. (Ben Kingsley) [think/remember/approach/economy]
• Maybe it's not a very businesslike approach, but it's always what attracts me... I do believe that it is that energy, that wonderful energy of the ancient craft of storytelling that will ignite something in the listeners. (Ben Kingsley) [approach/willpower]
• It had a profound effect on me. To read first the script and then Kazantzakis's novel, uhm, it sort of came at a time when I was questioning my own approach to knowing who I am, what I am, to knowing about my spiritual side. (Harvey Keitel) [time/approach]
• People are sheepish when they approach me. (Ryan Phillippe) [people/approach]
• I had no idea of humor and self-deprecation those many years ago, so I took a very serious approach on The Transformed Man, whereas I saw the value of alternating emotions and aspects of life in this album. (William Shatner) [approach/value/life]
• “I think a lot of the instincts you have doing comedy are really the same for doing drama, in that it's essentially about listening. The way I approach comedy, is you have to commit to everything as if it's a dramatic role, meaning you play it straight.” (Will Ferrell) [think/approach/role]
• “his approach to filmmakers and serving his stories.” (Willem Dafoe) [approach]
• I always try to make myself be very approachable and easy to talk to, so hopefully people will feel that they can approach me. (Kristanna Loken) [people/willpower/approach]
• “From now on, I approach the cinema as a business woman. I intend to be in more action movies because, apart from Angelina Jolie, no other actress stands out in this genre.” (Milla Jovovich) [approach/business/more/action]
• Now, Marty's humor is a bit different and he has a different approach to humor than Jack did, but Jack wanted to be a stand-up comic. (Shirley Jones) [approach]
• I approach my character with the question: What would an animal think? How would an animal respond? A lot of times, it's quick action and no fear, and sometimes it's irrational fear. You don't always know. (Victoria Pratt) [approach/character/question/action]
• My relationship with Music Row has always been, from my end, optimistic and hopeful that there is more than one way to approach the writing, recording, and marketing of an album. (Deana Carter) [music/more/approach/marketing]
• I wanted it to feel like you were in the club and on the dance floor, so that was the approach and I think we accomplished that mission. (Deborah Cox) [floor/approach/think/mission]
• Everyone is looking for connections between the songs. I don't usually approach a record as a concept. There's no overriding theme I'm trying to represent. It's all about the individual songs. (Tracy Chapman) [approach]

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