Approach Quotes - Page 15

• The magical approach is indeed the natural approach to life's experience. It is the adult version of childhood knowledge, the human version of the animals' knowledge, the conscious version of 'unconscious' comprehension.

  Seth

  Animal, Childhood, Magic

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• I approach stories as a private educational enterprise: I want to learn about something. I teach myself through research, reporting, and thinking, and then, when I feel like I know the story, I tell it to readers.

  Susan Orlean

  Educational, Thinking, Stories

  "Ask the Author Live: Susan Orlean on Jean Paul Gaultier". Live chat, www.newyorker.com. September 16, 2011.

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• I typically don't adopt the ascetic approach. In part, that's because I do use the Net for research even as I'm writing (to check facts, or so on). But I think it's also because I find the possibility of distraction comforting.

  James Surowiecki

  Writing, Thinking, Comforting

  "Ask the Author Live: James Surowiecki on Procrastination". Live chat, www.newyorker.com. October 1, 2010.

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• I had an opportunity to express my views, yes. I agreed with the approach which we took, namely, to make a distinction between the loss of life of the Chinese pilot and our military operations outside territorial waters or territorial limits.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Military, Loss, Opportunity

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Isaiah Berlin once said that there are two kinds of writers, hedgehogs and foxes. He said the fox knows many things, the hedgehog knows just one thing. So Shakespeare is a typical fox; Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky are typical hedgehogs. Now, I'm a typical hedgehog. I know just one thing, and I repeat it over and over again. I try to approach it from different angles to make it look different, but it's the same thing.

  Colin Wilson

  Two, Trying, Typical

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• Human government is more or less perfect as it approaches nearer or diverges farther from the imitation of this perfect plan of divine and moral government.

  John Adams

  Government, Perfect, Moral

  John Adams, Lyman Henry Butterfield (1961). “Diary and Autobiography: Diary, 1755-1770”

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• We are internally related to everything, not [just] externally related. Consciousness is an internal relationship to the whole, we take in the whole, and we act toward the whole. Whatever we have taken in determines basically what we are. Wholeness is a kind of attitude or approach to the whole of life. If we can have a coherent approach to reality then reality will respond coherently to us.

  David Bohm

  Attitude, Taken, Reality

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• When the Australian Government looked at how to meet the challenges, and the opportunities, presented by our ageing population, it saw that an all-encompassing approach was a prerequisite.

  Julie Bishop

  Opportunity, Government, Challenges

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• A lot of people approach risk as if it's the enemy when it's really fortune's accomplice.

  Sting

  Inspirational, People, Risk

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• Regardless of who wins, an election should be a time for optimism and fresh approaches.

  Gary Johnson

  Winning, Optimism, Election

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• Sleep, Silence's child, sweet father of soft rest, Prince whose approach peace to all mortals brings Indifferent host to shepherds and kings Sole comforter to minds with grief oppressed.

  William Drummond

  Sweet, Kings, Children

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• It certainly seems too simple to say what I am going to say, yet it is almost as if you would be better off turning the entire rational approach upside down, taking it for granted that all of its assumptions were false, for they are indeed more false than true.

  Seth

  Simple, Would Be, Upside Down

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• You cannot sell a Christendom approach to a post-Christian world. They are anti-Christian.

  Alan Hirsch

  Leadership, Christian, World

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• Don't let tradition paralyze your mind. Be receptive to new ideas. Be experimental. Try new approaches. Be progressive in everything you do.

  David J. Schwartz

  Ideas, Mind, Trying

  David J. Schwartz (2014). “The Magic of Thinking Big”, p.85, Penguin

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• I'm suspicious of any man or woman who approaches their own liberation with any kind of gender bias

  Andrew Cohen

  Men, Gender Bias, Prejudice

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• Reporters are faced with the daily choice of painstakingly researching stories or writing whatever people tell them. Both approaches pay the same.

  Scott Adams

  Writing, America, People

  Scott Adams (1996). “The Dilbert principle: a cubicle's-eye view of bosses, meetings, management fads & other workplace afflictions”

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• There are some scary statistics out there: one in five kids aged 10-17 have received a sexual solicitation or approach via the Internet.

  Mark Kennedy

  Kids, Scary, Statistics

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• The good of the governed is the end, and rewards and punishments are the means, of all government. The government of the supreme and all-perfect Mind, over all his intellectual creation, is by proportioning rewards to piety and virtue, and punishments to disobedience and vice. ... The joys of heaven are prepared, and the horrors of hell in a future state, to render the moral government of the universe perfect and complete. Human government is more or less perfect, as it approaches nearer or diverges further from an imitation of this perfect plan of divine and moral government.

  John Adams

  Mean, Punishment, Government

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• Even in the King's Gambit ... White is no longer trying to attack at all costs. He has had to adapt his approach and look for moves with a solid positional foundation ... As often as not, his strategy consists of stifling Black's activity and then winning in an endgame thanks to his superior pawn structure.

  Neil McDonald

  Kings, Moving, Winning

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• I attribute my success to my mental approach to the game. I have always been a serious student of umpiring. I enjoy studying rules, situations, and positioning.

  Jim Evans

  Games, Serious, Students

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• My mental approach is totally different. My coach predicated everything on defense. He always talked about defense, defense, defense. I took it to heart that if you play defense, you can take the heart from an offensive player.

  Eric Williams

  Heart, Player, Different

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• It struck me that the popularity of Christmas is a matter of web-like consciousness. Childhood conditions us to relax and expand at Christmas, to forget petty worries and irritations and think in terms of universal peace. And so Christmas is the nearest to mystical experience that most human beings ever approach, with its memories of Dickens and Irving's Bracebridge Hall.

  Colin Wilson

  Christmas, Memories, Thinking

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• Although you should respect venomous snakes and approach them with caution, most snakes you encounter in an urban environment are harmless and beneficial because they eat insects, mice and other rodents.

  Robert Pierce

  Snakes, Encounters, Rodents

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• Learning to fly an airplane taught me a way of thinking, an approach to problem-solving that was applicable and effective. Pilots are very methodical and meticulous, and artists tend not to be.

  Chris Carter

  Airplane, Artist, Thinking

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