Quotes About Approach

In Fellowship alone To God with Faith draw near Approach His Courts besiege His Throne With all the power of Prayer.

Constraints inspire us in how we approach the press, how we approach business relationships, how we do everything.

I try to date, but I take it so seriously. I am bad at having a casual relationship, so I kind of don't.

The God of Job exhibits biophilia: an 'innate pleasure from living abundance and diversity' [Edward O. Wilson] .... God chooses to approach wildlife not with a sword, but with a word of admiration and an open hand.

How you approach birth is intimately connected with how you approach life

See, your guests approach. Address yourself to entertain them sprightly, And let's be red with mirth.

I don't understand the Democrats' approach to Social Security in this country, and I'm not alone.

One doesn't do existential therapy as a freestanding separate theory; rather it informs your approach to such issues as death, which many therapists tend to shy away from.

We sat perfectly still in the dim light as the wolf approached closer, head cocked, mouth closed, and ears semi-erect. With these signs of both curiosity and trepidation, it took a step forward and then backed off a ways, then took a few steps forward again. It lifted its nose and sniffed intently, and finally stopped at about eight feet away. For a moment all three of us were perfectly still, wondering what was going to happen next.

Much in life is simply a matter of perspective. It's not inherently good or bad, a success or failure; it's how we choose to look at things that makes the difference.

A posture of enthusiasm is not always the one best calculated to succeed.

Why did basic scientists think one way about obesity and practicing clinicians another? Why did we disregard decades of research into the biological determinants of body weight when treating patients? And why were we using an approach to weight loss based on a "calories in, calories out" model that hadn't changed since the late 1800s, when bloodletting was still in vogue?

In fact, Invisibles are found in all walks of life. What binds them is their approach—deriving satisfaction from the value of their work, not the volume of their praise.

If you treat every situation as a life and death matter, you'll die a lot of times.

You can't be a smart cookie if you have a crummy attitude.

You can attract more bees with a spoonful of sugar than a cupful of vinegar.

Whether you're going to approach your competitors directly about taking over their buyers on a permanent profit-sharing basis or you're going to focus on hiring away their top salespeople, you need to carefully plan your proposition, your presentation, and even the sensitivity/ empathy of your delivery.

It pleased Culafroy that the nobility belonged to Ernestine rather than to himself, and in this trait we may already see a sign of his destiny. To be able to approach her, to enjoy her intimacy, her special favors, was agreeable to him, just as many persons are more pleased to be the favorite of a prince than the prince himself, or a priest of a god than the god, this way they can receive Grace.

She misunderstood my method, in my opinion, not realizing that my approach, rather obscure to those unfamiliar, was based on the idea that in my struggle with reality, I could exhaust any opponent with whom I was grappling, like one can wear out an olive, for example, before successfully stabbing it with a fork, and that my propensity not to hasten matters, far from having a negative effect, in fact prepared for me a fertile ground where, when things seemed ripe, I could make my move with ease.

omdat ze niet begreep dat ik met mijn benaderingswijze, die op het oog nogal ondoorzichtig was, in zekere zin beoogde de realiteit waarmee ik werd geconfronteerd murw te maken, zoals men er pas in slaagt bij voorbeeld een olijf aan zijn vork te prikken als men haar eerst murw heeft gemaakt, en dat mijn neiging nooit iets te forceren niet nadelig voor me was maar in werkelijkheid juist het terrein voor me effende waar ik, als de dingen me rijp leken, zou kunnen scoren.

If "how to do it" were the answer, it'd be done. It's how you do the "hows" that's most important.

The way you approach a big software cake is to break it down into lots of little cupcakes.

how I choose to handle myself as a writer is entirely my own choice. I can make my creativity into a killing field, or I can make it into a really interesting cabinet of curiosities. I can even make it into an act of prayer. My ultimate choice, then, is to always approach my work from a place of stubborn gladness.

I warn. Give it to me. If you do, no harm will follow, I swear it.' As Emerson might have said, this was the wrong approach to take to me. (In fact, Emerson would have put it more emphatically, using terms like 'red flag to a bull.') I