Approach Quotes

• Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.57, Simon and Schuster

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• Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn't work; and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new approach.

  Roger von Oech

  Business, Work, Failure

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• You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

  Steve Jobs

  Life, Motivational, Success

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.41, Prabhat Prakashan

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• Smiling is definitely one of the best beauty remedies. If you have a good sense of humor and a good approach to life, that's beautiful.

  Rashida Jones

  Smile, Beauty, Beautiful

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• Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality, the costs become prohibitive.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Reality, Cost, Idealism And Realism

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• If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality.

  Norman Cousins

  Life, Achievement, Immortality

  Norman Cousins (1974). “The celebration of life: a dialogue on immortality and infinity”, Harper San Francisco

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• He who seeks to approach his own buried past must conduct himself like a man digging... This confers the tone and bearing of genuine reminiscences. He must not be afraid to return again and again to the same matter; to scatter it as one scatters earth, to turn it over as one turns over soil.

  Walter Benjamin

  Real, Past, Men

  "Reflections: essays, aphorisms, autobiographical writings".

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• Long-lasting change that will help you create new habits and actions requires an inside-out approach, as well as two very important tools: the mirror and time.

  Darren Johnson

  Mirrors, Lasting Change, Two

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• The closer a man approaches tragedy the more intense is his concentration of emotion upon the fixed point of his commitment, which is to say the closer he approaches what in life we call fanaticism.

  Arthur Miller

  Life, Commitment, Tragedy

  Arthur Miller (2015). “Miller Plays: 1: All My Sons; Death of a Salesman; The Crucible; A Memory of Two Mondays; A View from the Bridge”, p.7, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Success is almost totally dependent upon drive and persistence. The extra energy required to make another effort or try another approach is the secret of winning.

  Denis Waitley

  Inspirational, Success, Determination

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• If you look over the years, the styles have changed - the clothes, the hair, the production, the approach to the songs. The icing to the cake has changed flavors. But if you really look at the cake itself, it's really the same.

  John Oates

  Happy Birthday, Song, Hair

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• You learn, just as you learn good manners, how to approach things with a certain amount of diplomacy.

  Robert MacNeil

  Manners, Certain, Diplomacy

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• Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

  "Edgewalkers: People and Organizations That Take Risks, Build Bridges, and". Book by Judi Neal, p. 163, October 30, 2006.

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• The things you fear are undefeatable, not by their nature, but by your approach.

  Jewel

  Fear, Undefeatable

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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  Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• Inhale, and God approaches you. Hold the inhalation, and God remains with you. Exhale, and you approach God. Hold the exhalation, and surrender to God.

  Tirumalai Krishnamacharya

  Success, God, Yoga

  "Stress Out: Show Stress Who's the Boss!". Book by Sumner M. Davenport (p.9), November 11, 2009.

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• The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.

  Samuel Butler

  Trust, Print Media, People

  Samuel Butler (1951). “Samuel Butler's notebooks”

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• If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.

  Epictetus

  Perfection, Promise, Progress

  Epictetus (1890). “The Works of Epictetus: Consisting of His Discourses, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments”

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• I have a different approach. I don't file lawsuits because I really don't care.

  Nicole Kidman

  Careers, Different, Don't Care

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• Bodybuilding is much like any other sport. To be successful, you must dedicate yourself 100% to your training, diet and mental approach.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Strength, Sports, Fitness

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• C is peculiar in a lot of ways, but it, like many other successful things, has a certain unity of approach that stems from development in a small group.

  Dennis Ritchie

  Successful, Unity, Groups

  "The future according to Dennis Ritchie". Interview with Danny Kalev, www.itworld.com. December 20, 2000.

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• I get curious about new things. My real strength is going into a field that has not been investigated before, and finding new approaches to it.

  Joshua Lederberg

  Real, Fields, Curious

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• The preparations are what they are. We're here. The storm is coming. We are as best prepared as we can be as the eye of the storm approaches.

  Russel Honore

  Eye, Preparation, Storm

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• A true leader has to have a genuine open-door policy so that his people are not afraid to approach him for any reason.

  Harold Geneen

  Leadership, Doors, People

  "Managing". Book by Harold Geneen , Chapter Six (Leadership), p. 113, 1985.

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• I always try to approach character first and foremost viscerally.

  Patricia Clarkson

  Character, Trying, Firsts

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