Quotes About Approach

She was remorseless, but she lacked method.

It was closely printed in long paragraphs that mostly seemed to begin, "If we extrapolate from our findings in my earlier work, we find ourselves ready to approach an extension of the paratypical phenomenology…" No, Charmain thought. I don't think we are ready.

That was Sophie's trouble. She was remorseless, but she lacked method.

Traffic was stopped dead and I nudged the window switch and listened to the blowing horns approach peak volume. We were trapped in our own obsessive clamor.

One of my rules in consulting is simple: never solve the problem I am asked to solve. Why such a counterintuitive rule? Because, invariably, the problem I am asked to solve is not the real, fundamental, root problem. It is usually a symptom. Just

The solution is human-centered design (HCD), an approach that puts human needs, capabilities, and behavior first, then designs to accommodate those needs, capabilities, and ways of behaving.

I believe that the dominant paradigm for managing product development is fundamentally wrong. Not just a little wrong, but wrong to its very core. It is as wrong as we were in manufacturing, before the Japanese unlocked the secret of lean manufacturing. I believe that a new paradigm is emerging, one that challenges the current orthodoxy of product development. I want to help accelerate the adoption of this new approach

My approach is completely different. I approach complicated problems such as how to provide health care for most Americans at a price we can afford the same way I solve the toughest business problems. We should hire the most knowledgeable people in the world on this subject and lock them in a room—and not unlock the door until they've agreed on the steps we need to take.

Step 2: Solution

Section 5: The Plan

Using Three Steps Is the Key

Most of us ask people to buy our products the way a shy, young boy might ask a girl to go on a date.

What is the difference between an obstacle and an opportunity? Our attitude toward it. Every opportunity has a difficulty, and every difficulty has an opportunity.

The average golfer doesn't play golf. He attacks it.

In so much of life and professional activity, the simple strategies and techniques can be the most powerful.

The idea that trading success is tied to finding some specific ideal approach is misguided. There is no single correct methodology.

A star on a movie set is like a time bomb. That bomb has got to be defused so people can approach it without fear.

I was trying to solve a testing problem that simply couldn't be solved in isolation. Testing and development, when seen as separate disciplines or even as distinct problems, was wrong-headed and continuing down such a path meant we would solve neither.

All fish are not caught with flies.

A good approach to something requires enough resources to handle the demands of that activity.

Just remember, there's a right way and a wrong way to do everything and the wrong way is to keep trying to make everybody else do it the right way.

The royal road to a Nobel Prize has generally been through the reductionist approach,

The only way to cope with something deadly serious is to try to treat it a little lightly.

People tended to be fascinated or repelled by him, as he was very direct in his approach to people and was impatient of any pretentiousness.