Approach Quotes - Page 16

• 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 am not an expert. That is someone else's job. If I were expert, the approach would be all wrong. It would be from the inside. I am a blunderer. I usually don't know what I am going into at the start. I go into the fog and trust something will be there.

  Robert Altman

  Jobs, Fog, Experts

  "Still up to mischief" by Suzie Mackenzie, www.theguardian.com. April 30, 2004.

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• I've changed my approach to people and to filming because of the new equipment, which is important.

  Agnes Varda

  People, Important, I've Changed

  Interview with Noel Murray, film.avclub.com. June 30, 2009.

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• Will [Smith] is not like preachy. He's more like lead by example. There's two ways to approach Will. You can follow or you can watch and learn, and I just kind of watched him and learned how he dealt with people, how he dealt with life and how he approaches his own work.

  Michael Ealy

  Two, People, Example

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• I think the way I approach things has something to do with growing up and seeing my parents go to work every day.

  Kristen Stewart

  Growing Up, Thinking, Parent

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I've been making movies for a long time. The Japanese way of making movies has become second nature to me. To get away from that, I really try to surround myself with younger staff and approach making movies not like a veteran of the industry but always as a beginner and a rookie.

  Takashi Miike

  Long, Trying, Beginners

  Source: collider.com

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• [Writing something original from scratch], the initial process is way different. But once it exists and you start to actually work on making it real, then the approach is kind of the same, for me anyways.

  Zack Snyder

  Real, Writing, Different

  Source: ca.complex.com

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• I'm at a stage in my career where I don't expect or get too much editorial input into what I'm doing. I have a proven track record of success, so my editors are willing to cut me some slack even when a particular approach is not to their personal taste.

  Grant Morrison

  Cutting, Careers, Editors

  Interview with Leonard Pierce, www.avclub.com. July 22, 2009.

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• It surprises me constantly that my sometimes-unorthodox approach has such a large following, but I'm very grateful to my readers for allowing me to continue writing 10 or 12 hours a day.

  Grant Morrison

  Grateful, Writing, Unorthodox

  Interview with Leonard Pierce, www.avclub.com. July 22, 2009.

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• I've always felt I had more in common with the modernist approach than with postmodernism, but I can see where the connection might arise - and to be honest, I'm no academic, so I tend to use these words, like in Alice In Wonderland, to mean what I want them to mean rather than what they actually do mean.

  Grant Morrison

  Mean, Want, Might

  Interview with Leonard Pierce, www.avclub.com. July 22, 2009.

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• I used to need the character but as I've gotten older I need it less and less - I prefer to play some version of myself. To approach any acting job as me just being me.

  Michael Ian Black

  Jobs, Character, Play

  "Michael Ian Black on Parenting, Pop Culture and His Worst Christmas Present Ever". Interview with Sarah Thyre, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 16, 2012.

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• Crowdsourcing is a great way to approach creation because in any given point there's always somebody on the Internet who knows something better than you do.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Way, Internet, Creation

  "Guy Kawasaki Interview on His Latest Book - APE". Interview with Helen Nesterenko, writtent.com. January 11, 2013.

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• Those who approach life like a child playing a game, moving and pushing pieces, possess the power of kings.

  Heraclitus

  Kings, Children, Moving

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• I love the balls-to-the-walls rule-breaking approach the Beatles had in the studio (which I emulate), although I don't try to make my songs "sound" like their songs. But every time I crank a knob of some piece of equipment, or plug an instrument into the "wrong" amp/effect, I am channeling the Beatles.

  Alan Cohen

  Song, Wall, Trying

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• So many computer languages try to force you into one way of thinking and Perl is very much the opposite of that approach. It's kind of like a, well, sometimes Perl has been called the Swiss army chainsaw of the internet, but it's more like a Swiss army machine shop. It really gives you a lot of tools, some of which are dangerous, but it lets you get your job done very quickly.

  Larry Wall

  Jobs, Army, Thinking

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Sometimes it's an external approach where one can learn the skills required, let's say, learn to play the trumpet and in that process other things happen. It's magical: through the process of practicing four hours a day you start focusing on emotion and when you pick up the trumpet it's filled with feeling.

  Richard Gere

  Skills, Play, Feelings

  "New Again: Richard Gere". Interview with Andy Warhol and Maura Moynihan, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 28, 2012.

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• Everything, every part that you approach has to be somehow rooted in yourself. You have to somehow root everything so that it's not just words coming out of you.

  Judi Dench

  Roots, Coming Out, Rooted

  "Philomena - Dame Judi Dench interview". www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Growing up in a multicultural family, I never really felt that I was different - even though I was from most of the kids in my school. Especially with music, I try to just approach it as an equal.

  Priscilla Ahn

  Growing Up, School, Kids

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• You really need to approach each book as if you have been a failure. . . . If you start to believe your flap-copy, you're finished as a writer.

  Louise Erdrich

  Believe, Book, Needs

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• I approach every week the same. I think I've always tried to be very professional to how I approach the game, my preparation. Every game is important.

  Tom Brady

  Thinking, Games, Preparation

  "Tom Brady on Deflategate, Gisele and Donald Trump". Interview with John Carucci, www.boston.com. October 15, 2015.

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• It's very intuitive, the way that I approach my work. I only buy something that has a pulse. I may not know how I'm going to use it, but I know it has a pulse and it has multiple readings - if I shift it one way or another, it can be read this way or it can be read that way, but both readings are critical and very much ground the work.

  Nick Cave

  Reading, Pulse, Use

  "Nick Cave’s Object Permanence" by Alexandria Symonds, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 19, 2014.

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• Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart. The nearer I approach the end, the plainer I hear around me the immortal symphonies of the worlds which invite me. . . . For half a century I have been writing thoughts in prose, verse, history, drama, romance, tradition, satire, ode, and song. I have tried them all, but I feel I have not said a thousandth part of that which is within me. When I go down to the grave, I can say "I have finished my day's work," but I cannot say "I have finished my life's work."

  Victor Hugo

  Song, Drama, Spring

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• We can not understand each other, if our sympathies are always safely tucked away; we can not understand each other, if our approaches are always academic or conventional; we can not understand each other, if we crawl back into our shells every time we see a worm across our path.

  Ameen Rihani

  Shells, Path, Academic

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• Happiness requires changing yourself and changing your world. It requires pursuing your own goals and fitting in with others. Different people at different times in their lives will benefit from drawing more heavily on one approach or the other.

  Jonathan Haidt

  Drawing, People, Goal

  Jonathan Haidt (2006). “The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom”, p.242, Basic Books

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• I have chosen the positive approach - instead of stressing the bad things which I am against, I stress the good things which I am for.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Stress, Good Things, Chosen

  Peace Pilgrim (1981). “Steps Toward Inner Peace”, p.26, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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