Approach Quotes - Page 26

• 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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• I have always valued the care for my body, and my mind and had holistic approach to life. I always thought this is utmost importance for my tennis.

  Novak Djokovic

  Tennis, Mind, Body

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• I think humans are stupid. We fight and kill each other. I think that's dumb. Aliens would be smarter than that and wouldn't approach things on that level. I can't really fathom it being a negative thing for aliens to visit.

  Michelle Rodriguez

  Stupid, Fighting, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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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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• In short form I'll say it was an approach to the family and to [author] Jon Krakauer that then led to me seeming to rise to the top of the heap of several filmmakers that were trying to get the rights. And by top of the heap I mean in terms of being somebody that was trusted to do it as they said they were going to attempt to do it and that this way of doing it would be something they would be willing to allow.

  Sean Penn

  Mean, Rights, Trying

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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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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• 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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• Our approach to existential risks cannot be one of trial-and-error. There is no opportunity to learn from errors. The reactive approach - see what happens, limit damages, and learn from experience - is unworkable. Rather, we must take a proactive approach. This requires foresight to anticipate new types of threats and a willingness to take decisive preventive action and to bear the costs (moral and economic) of such actions.

  Nick Bostrom

  Opportunity, Errors, Risk

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• I have no literary approach - except to literature.

  George Balanchine

  Literature

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• The only way to even approach doing something perfectly is through experience, and experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.

  Oscar Wilde

  Mistake, Names, Giving

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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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• I was very adamant about not being called a jazz singer, but now I've embraced it. The way I approach music is through jazz, so I'm a jazz singer.

  Dee Dee Bridgewater

  Singers, Way, Jazz

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• I was hesitant to approach people. I'm socially awkward. But I was working on a number of memorials, and finally it dawned on me: These are memorials to people who wrote, so I should use their writing. That's how I started to quit.

  Jenny Holzer

  Writing, Numbers, People

  Interview with Kiki Smith, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 26, 2012.

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• ...approach change with an understanding of the process and an openness to the pain.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Pain, Understanding, Process

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• There is enormous need for professionals who know how to tell stories with narrative punch and nuance, who can work proactively and not just reactively, and whose approach is multi-faceted. We need more "useful photographers."

  Fred Ritchin

  Needs, Stories, Narrative

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• IBM uses what I like to call the 'hole-in-the-ground technique' to destroy the competition..... IBM digs a big HOLE in the ground and covers it with leaves. It then puts a big POT OF GOLD nearby. Then it gives the call, 'Hey, look at all this gold, get over here fast.' As soon as the competitor approaches the pot, he falls into the pit

  John C. Dvorak

  Fall, Giving, Competition

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• The worth of my music will never be guessed or its value to mankind felt until the approach to it is consciously undertaken as a pilgrimage to sorrows.

  Percy Grainger

  Sorrow, Mankind, Pilgrimage

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• I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element. It is my personal approach that creates the climate.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Climate, Elements, Conclusion

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• Acting is broad enough a church that you can pick your races, decide which way you want to go at different times.I think that the story and circumstance tends to dictate the most and then what you do with your own approach after that.

  Ben Mendelsohn

  Thinking, Race, Church

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

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• Knowing means to penetrate through the surface, in order to arrive at the roots, and hence the causes; knowing means to "see" reality in its nakedness. Knowing does not mean to be in the possession of the truth; it means to penetrate the surface and to strive critically and actively in order to approach truth ever more closely.

  Erich Fromm

  Mean, Reality, Order

  Erich Fromm (2017). “Fascism, Power, and Individual Rights: Escape from Freedom, To Have or To Be?, and The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness”, p.328, Open Road Media

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• I love when scenes are intentionally and meticulously planned so we feel like this is a handcrafted scene that only works in this moment and this movie, and that's the way I approach my films.

  Justin Simien

  Way, Film, Moments

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I operate the camera, I always do it when I'm the director, and I like to approach it as a documentary, finding the images based on what happens, as it happens.

  Benjamin Avila

  Cameras, Directors, Documentaries

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Just because I’m telling a story about a woman losing faith is not my rebellion against what I grew up in. If anything, it really affected the way I approached the story, and in fact, approach everything. I don’t judge my characters.

  Vera Farmiga

  Character, Judging, Stories

  "Vera Farmiga on “Higher Ground”". Interview with Aaron Ross, www.motherjones.com. August 26, 2011.

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• It is nice when people recognize me and approach me in the street. Anyone who says they don't like that is lying.

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic

  Nice, Lying, People

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• In Russia an authoritarian leader is running the country. You can't fight Putin with elections because he controls them. That's why demonstrations are the most effective approach. Unfortunately Russia has sunk to this primitive level.

  Alexei Navalny

  Running, Country, Fighting

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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