Quotes About Approach

It helps if the hitter thinks you're a little crazy.

But I'm not going to walk Barry Bonds, like some teams do, in the first inning with nobody on.

The framing of a problem is often far more essential than its solution

Her tone was breezy. That, she thought, was the best way to talk to teenagers—about anything. You talked to them in that way, as if you were not expecting them to be listening to you—which, of course, they were not.

Psychology, she thought; that is what they called it these days, but in her view it was something much older than that. It was woman's knowledge, that was what it was; knowledge of how men behaved and how they could be persuaded to do something if one approached the matter in the right way.

Positive psychology is a framework, or a paradigm, that encompasses an approach to psychology from the perspective of healthy, successful life functioning.

I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when looked at in the right way, did not become still more complicated.

I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when looked at in the right way, did not become still more complicated. —POUL ANDERSON

To become a welcome vessel for the breath is to live life without trying to control, grasp, or push away. And how easy is this? The process of breathing is the most accurate metaphor we have for the way that we personally approach life, how we live our lives, and how we react to the inevitable changes that life brings us.

Remember Tolstoy? He said something pretty clever. He said, "One can no more approach people without love than one can approach bees without care." Wouldn't the world be a better place if we took that tiny bit of advice?

Some people are so fond of ill-luck that they run half- way to meet it.

The issue is not the thing, but rather our approach to the thing. Same as with food. Our temptation is to objectify the problem, trying to locate sin in the stuff—in the tobacco, in the alcohol, in the gun, in the donut—instead of where sin is actually located, which is right under the breastbone.

Targeted advertising of this kind is often held up as the quintessence of a scientific approach. But again, at least some of those consumers, and possibly many of them, would have bought the products anyway. As a result, the ads were just as wasted on them as they were on consumers who saw the ads and weren't interested.

I love sharing my knowledge of hitting with others. Now coaches and players at all levels can learn my systematic approach to hitting a baseball with more consistency, mental strength and accuracy.

I approach my life haphazardly. Not much holiness and only as much wisdom as I can muster.

Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.

Everything in life should be approached as a project. Every project can be broken down into just three things: Action Steps, Backburner Items, and References.

I like frogs. I am not crazy about their legs in a buffet, but I like their casual approach to life.

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Anyone who dreams of an uncommon life eventually discovers that there is no choice but to seek an uncommon approach to living it.

But to me the notion that spirituality is separate from the rest of life does not allow for a practical approach to living a life that has extraordinary quality.

Zen approaches it from the practical side of life-that is, to work out Enlightenment in life itself.

Don't approach a goat from the front, a horse from the back, or a fool from any side.

I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect.