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Quotes About Approach

And I defend because in spite of all I find that I love. In order to get some of it down I have to love. I sell you no phony forgiveness, I'm a desperate man – but too much of your life will be lost, its meaning lost, unless you approach it as much through love as through hate. So I approach it through division so I denounce and I defend and I hate and I love.
~ Ralph Ellison
I denounce because though implicated and partially responsible, I have been hurt to the point of abysmal pain, hurt to the point of invisibility. And I defend because in spite of all I find that I love. In order to get some of it down I have to love... too much of your life will be lost, its meaning lost, unless you approach it as much through love as through hate.
~ Ralph Ellison
We cannot approach beauty. Its nature is like opaline doves'-neck lustres, hovering and evanescent. Herein it resembles the most excellent things, which all have this rainbow character, defying all attempts at appropriation and use.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
we had approached nearer to absolute Truth, which, like Beauty itself, floats elusive, obscure, half submerged, in the silent still waters of mystery.
~ Joseph Conrad
the practical value of succes depends not a little on the way you look at it.
~ Joseph Conrad
The chaplain was apologetic. "I'm sorry, sir, but just about all the prayers I know are rather somber in tone and make at least some passing reference to God." "Then let's get some new ones. The men are already doing enough bitching about the missions I send them on without our rubbing it in with any sermons about God or death or Paradise. Why can't we take a more positive approach? Why
~ Joseph Heller
and yet the fact remains that the youth today is more sensitive than ever. I admit I don't know how to understand this phenomenon and have sought to approach it "economically," asking the question of whether an increase in sensitivity has brought about a decrease in discrimination, or whether a decrease in discrimination has brought about an increase in sensitivity to when, where, and how it occurs.
~ Joshua Cohen
I could not figure out why I wasn't able to enjoy much of anything in life until God revealed to me I was killing my joy with complication. For years, I prayed God would change the people and circumstances around me when, in reality, He wanted to change me and my approach to life. He wanted me to simplify so, ultimately, He could be glorified.
~ Joyce Meyer
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference." I
~ Joyce Meyer
As Adam early in the morning,Walking forth from the bower refresh'd with sleep,Behold me where I pass, hear my voice, approach,Touch me, touch the palm of your hand to my body as I pass,Be not afraid of my body.
~ Walt Whitman
Memory is not an instrument for surveying the past but its theater. It is the medium of past experience, just as the earth is the medium in which dead cities lie buried. He who seeks to approach his own buried past must conduct himself like a man digging.
~ WALTER BENJAMIN
The Study of Society: A Unified Approach. The
~ Walter E. Williams
The land of literature is a fairy land to those who view it at a distance, but, like all other landscapes, the charm fades on a nearer approach, and the thorns and briars become visible.
~ Washington Irving
Younger guys have been approaching me lately. And asking me to buy them alcohol.
~ Wendy Liebman
people form opinions and make choices that directly express their feelings and their basic tendency to approach or avoid, often without knowing that they are doing so. The
~ Daniel Kahneman
people make judgments and decisions by consulting their emotions: Do I like it? Do I hate it? How strongly do I feel about it? In many domains of life, Slovic said, people form opinions and make choices that directly express their feelings and their basic tendency to approach or avoid, often without knowing that they are doing so.
~ Daniel Kahneman
Speaking of Singular Decisions "The way you approach this unusual opportunity exposes you to noise." "Remember: a singular decision is a recurrent decision that is made only once." "The personal experiences that made you who you are are not truly relevant to this decision.
~ Daniel Kahneman
Substituting one question for another can be a good strategy for solving difficult problems, and George Pólya included substitution in his classic How to Solve It: "If you can't solve a problem, then there is an easier problem you can solve: find it." P
~ Daniel Kahneman
System 2 also is capable of a more systematic and careful approach to evidence, and of following a list of boxes that must be checked before making a decision
~ Daniel Kahneman
He would be painstaking in his approach, meticulous. For there was nothing more dangerous, he thought, than a patient man.
~ Daniel Silva
Using fantasy as metaphor, wryness rather than bluntness, never escaping a certain gentility in approach
~ Daryl Easlea
That's not how the system works.
~ Dashka Slater
Part of the discipline of the person-centred approach is not to make assumptions about the client's appropriate process, but to follow the process laid out by the client.
~ Dave Mearns
Fictional tales are better and more enjoyable the nearer they approach the truth or the semblance of the truth
~ David Abrams