Quotes About Approach To Life

#1. Will searching for distant messages work? Is there intelligent life out there? The SETI effort is worth continuing, but our common-sense beacons approach seems more likely to answer those questions.

Gregory Benford

#2. Rainbows is a pretty honest look at my approach to life and love. While I admit to not exactly being an angel, I do try and live life to the fullest and give as much as I can of myself in the process

Beccy Cole

#3. The ordinary is simply the universal observed from the surface, that the direct approach to reality is not without, but within. Touch life anywhereand you will touch universality wherever you touch the earth.

Ellen Glasgow

#4. Essentially, pride is a 'my will' rather than 'thy will' approach to life.

Ezra Taft Benson

#5. Wellness is not a 'medical fix' but a way of living - a lifestyle sensitive and responsive to all the dimensions of body, mind, and spirit, an approach to life we each design to achieve our highest potential for well-being now and forever.

Greg Anderson

#6. By removing the stories from the morass of things that surround us, I'm hoping to achieve some kind of purer approach to emotional life.

Jonathan Lethem

#7. Mostly, I try to take a rational approach to life.

Jimmy Wales

#8. Bury My Heart is a life-altering approach to turning managers into unconditionally committed leaders.

Stan Slap

#9. My father has been my role model. And I always looked up to him - be it his management philosophy or his approach towards life.

Malvinder Mohan Singh

#10. Don't take the casual approach to life. Casualness leads to casualties.

Jim Rohn

#11. I believe that, for those who love to write, time spent writing is never wasted. And then isn't it from book to book that we approach the book that we really want to write?

Elena Ferrante

#12. Winning is an approach to life. The place it starts is not on the playing field or in the business organization; nor is it competitive. We are trying to do our best to bring perfection into whatever we turn our attention to.

Frederick Lenz

#13. I'm not actually a mom in real life, so it's fun to pretend to be one. I like to approach things the same in art as in life. You can choose to look on the positive side and enjoy whatever roles you're given. You can find the silver lining in anything.

Heather Graham

#14. If the student truly absorbs the concept of free inquiry in the field of music, unimpeded by blind adherence to doctrine and tradition, he will bring something of this approach not only to other fields of knowledge but to the conduct of his daily life,

William Howard Schuman

#15. For however inhospitable the wind, from this vantage point Manhattan was simply so improbable, so wonderful, so obviously full of promise - that you wanted to approach it for the rest of your life without ever quite arriving.

Amor Towles

#16. I love that Viking era, but also they're a fatalistic people and that dictated their fearlessness in battle and approach to life.

Chris Hemsworth

#17. Socialism is ... not only a way of life, but a certain scientific approach to social and economic problems.

Jawaharlal Nehru

#18. I made a lot of changes in my life between my twenties and thirties, and it all sort of revolves around how I think people with nerdier brains tend to problem-solve and approach things differently then "norms."

Chris Hardwick

#19. Thinking about work as a day job has made a big difference in the way I approach what I do. It also helped me not to confuse who I am with what I do.

Bob Goff

#20. Part of my approach to my illness has been to say I want to choose life, I want to keep going, I want to live fully until I die.

Thea Bowman

#21. Despite being in showbiz, I have a very real approach to my life. It plays off with my social life.

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

#22. I believe that everyone chooses how to approach life. If you're proactive, you focus on preparing. If you're reactive, you end up focusing on repairing.

John C. Maxwell

#23. Unlike most experts in her field, Erika Andersen has an approach to being strategic that's sensible and accessible. With her, you feel capable of creating the business, career and life you want. She's to strategy what Suze Orman is to personal finance!

Nancy Tellem

#24. What does it mean to trust, and how do I become more trusting? What I know so far is this: when I approach life's uncertainty with a willingness to not know the answers, more is possible than I could ever dream of.

Julia Aziz

#25. The great lesson I get from 'Moby-Dick' is that when the times are bad, when there is great foreboding, there are still ways to go about living. It's through Ishmael that I find a kind of overall cosmic approach to a meaningful life in this meaningless world.

Nathaniel Philbrick

#26. As you circumambulate and move closer to Kaaba, you feel like a small stream merging with a big river. As you approach the center, the pressure of the crowd squeezes you so hard that you are given a new life. You are now a part of the people; you are now a man alive and eternal!

Ali Shariati

#27. I think the story should always determine the visual approach. There are situations where you want things to feel alive and like life, and there are situations that should have some magic and the separation with the grain.

Judd Apatow

#28. To those who view the voyage of life from the port of departure the bark that has accomplished any considerable distance appears already in close approach to the farther shore.

Ambrose Bierce

#29. Anyone who dreams of an uncommon life eventually discovers there is no choice but to seek an uncommon approach to living it.

Gary Keller

#30. Only through the inner channels can a person even hope to approach
the ancient wisdoms. The outer works are thus simply a doorway to
the hidden, spiritual things of life.

Harold Klemp

#31. Poetry is rather an approach to things, to life, than it is typographical production.

Joseph Brodsky

#32. To live an extraordinary life, you must resist an ordinary approach.

Frank McKinney

#33. I don't remember being a child, and that's why I think I'm so child-like now in my unending curiosity and approach to life.

Marianne Wiggins

#34. Most people put the cart before the horse, which is an interesting way to go through life. They approach everything directly. In Zen we approach everything backwards or inside out.

Frederick Lenz

#35. It's interesting when you're old enough to take a new, objective approach looking at your parents, frame them in a way where you are actually taking yourself out of the equation and just look at the things that are true about their life.

Robert Downey Jr.

#36. Ordinary people, even weak people, can do extraordinary things through temporary courage generated by a situation. But the person of character does not need the situation to generate his courage. It is a part of his being and a standard approach to all life's challenges.

Michael Josephson

#37. I like frogs. I am not crazy about their legs in a buffet, but I like their casual approach to life.

Sandi Toksvig

#38. The scientific approach to life is not necessarily appropriate to states of visceral anguish.

Anthony Burgess

#39. Our approach to reality, our sense of reality, cannot assume that the text of nature, the book of life, is a cryptogram concealing just a single meaning. Rather, it is an expanding riddle of a multiplicity of resonating images.

Peter Redgrove

#40. You will enrich your life immeasurably if you approach it with a sense of wonder and discovery, and always challenge yourself to try new things.

Nate Berkus

#41. And maybe now it's about telling the occasional story that I recently believe in and think would be good to put out there into the world. But I look back, that crying taught me how to approach everything in life. Acting or Otherwise.

Drew Barrymore

#42. The more useful approach is to ask, "Is this thought helpful? Does it help me take action to create the life I want?" If it's helpful, pay attention. If it's not, defuse it.

Russ Harris

#43. I've never tried to run away from my race. I was born a black man. You know that in your bones as soon as you are able to understand this country ... My approach to life about race is, I don't see the difference between black people and white people.

Edward Brooke

#44. The negation of severe suffering was the nearest approach to happiness I expected to know. Besides, I seemed to hold two lives - the life of thought, and that of reality.

Charlotte Bronte

#45. There were many influences on me while growing up. In the late Seventies and early Eighties when I was growing up in Hyderabad, it was a bit more laid-back, and that gave you time to think about things differently without perhaps being caught up in the narrow approach to one's journey through life.

Satya Nadella

#46. Because obstacles will always present themselves, the hardest obstacle of all is developing a way of living, a way of practicing your approach to life that allows you to keep a healthy perspective on things.

Adam Rodriguez

#47. I think that being an artist is more an approach to life than an approach to work.

Andrew Levitas

#48. I also think that everyone has an elitist approach to his own art, a complex knowledge of it, whether he is a clockmaker or an engineer. And I think it's perfectly legitimate to make use of this knowledge because it enriches the overall texture of life.

Peter Greenaway

#49. I approach the heptathlon and life in the same way in that I not only want to be good at what I am doing, but I want it to mean something.

Shelia Burrell

#50. ...[W]hen death comes to a man, the mortal part of him dies, but the immortal part retires at the approach of death and escapes unharmed and indestructible... [I]t is as certain as anything can be... that soul is immortal and imperishable, and that our souls will really exist in the next world.

Socrates

#51. Behold how the stream flows to the sea, and the flowing waters will return no more; thus, my brother, do your days pass away, and you approach to death; pleasures pass, amusements pass, pomp, praises, acclamations pass; and what remains?

Alfonso Maria De Liguori

#52. I hate to spoil my own prospects, but I really don't respect the kiss-and-tell approach to public life at all, not at all.

Alexander Downer

#53. I've approached so many things in my life with such intensity that I want to approach motherhood with dedication and focus.

Drew Barrymore

#54. A much more interesting, kind, adventurous, and joyful approach to life is to begin to develop curiosity, not caring whether the object of our inquisitiviness is bitter or sweet.

Pema Chodron

#55. A lot of scientific evidence suggests that the difference between those who succeed and those who don't is not the brains they were born with, but their approach to life, the messages they receive about their potential, and the opportunities they have to learn.

Jo Boaler

#56. My approach in life is very clear: if there is an error, I tend to apologise and indeed most mornings I'll apologise in advance to my wife for the inevitable errors I'm going to make during the course of a day.

Greg Hunt

#57. My family is out of the ordinary in our physical lifestyle and the day-to-day things that we deal with, but my approach to them is pretty rational and sound. And I'm the quiet one! It's very different from my performing life.

Dee Snider

#58. Early on I decided that I was going to lie to the press. The best approach to talking about my personal life was to lie.

Nick Nolte

#59. God desires all believers to be so familiar with His love that our approach toward Him is bold.

Andrew Wommack

#60. Sport for me is about inspiring kids. Here's the rules, here's the play area, sometimes you win, sometimes you lose. This is all about teaching kids how to approach life. If we're not playing sport to benefit kids, I'm not really sure why we play sport.

Russell Crowe

#61. When your sense of self and happiness comes from within and isn't a roller coaster ride dependent on others or circumstances, you approach life differently. You make better choices. You draw to you the people and situations that matter. The others, they fall away.

Kamal Ravikant

#62. I suspect I was not the first 21-year-old who thought he knew more than he did. And one of the virtues of age, one of the virtues of getting married and becoming a father, is it often leads one to take a more measured approach to life.

Ted Cruz

#63. Between the creative, open and spontaneous approach to life, and the highly disciplined, pragmatic approach, there's a doorway, if you can find it - and it leads to immortality.

Frederick Lenz

#64. I think a valid approach to being a musician is to take all of the experience of your life and filter it through your personality and send it back out there, and that's what art is.

David Sanborn

#65. The sorrow of God lies in our fear of Him, our fear of life, and our fear of ourselves. He anguishes over our self-absorption and self-sufficiency ... God's sorrow lies in our refusal to approach Him when we sinned and failed.

Brennan Manning

#66. That's my life approach to most of life most of the time:to ignore it.I have to in order to stay sane.Until something like this happens,and I realize what I've gotten myself into.

John David Anderson

#67. I'm clenched down, I'm locked in on it, which is my general approach to life.

James Ellroy

#68. We can't always make life work. But we can always draw near to God. There is a different way to approach our problems. There is a NEW WAY to live.

Larry Crabb

#69. We are 100 percent responsible for the pursuit of holiness, but at the same time we are 100 percent dependent upon the Holy Spirit to enable us in that pursuit. The pursuit of holiness is not a pull-yourself-up-by-your-own-bootstraps approach to the Christian life.

Jerry Bridges

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

Norman Cousins

#71. George Harrison is perhaps one of the most creative people I ever met, not only in his music and songwriting, but just the way he lived his life, decorated his gardens and homes. He was a dear friend of mine. His entire approach to music was very unique.

Gary Wright

#72. I like to have a sense of accomplishment through work. I'm busy golfing and attending activities, but I think of holding a meeting as playing golf. I think my approach is very good. I don't feel I lose a lot of fun things in life even though I am busy all day.

Liang Wengen

#73. Mrs Maclintick's dissatisfaction with life had probably reached so advanced a stage that she was unable to approach any new event amiably, even when proffered temporary alleviation of her own chronic spleen.

Anthony Powell

#74. When we have heartbeat and brain waves, we refuse to accept it as the presence of life - this lack of logic of which we approach this issue because we like and we favor convenience over ethics. We favor convenience over the hard parts of life that actually make us grow.

Tom Coburn

#75. If we adopt a self-centered approach to life, by which we attempt to use others for our own self interest, we might be able to gain temporary benefits, but in the long run we will not succeed in achieving even our personal happiness, and hope for the next life is out of the question.

Dalai Lama

#76. I still indulge in a glass of wine or chocolate - treats are mandatory. Without deviating from the day-to-day healthy diet once in a while, it wouldn't be sustainable for me, and that's what I wanted: an approach to eating to last my entire life.

Alanis Morissette

#77. Unless you can guide the mind inward, and take the attention beyond the comprehension of mind, and directly experience life, you never reach to the ultimate truth of life.

Roshan Sharma

#78. There are many individuals, companies and even countries operating in what I call a 'me first' mentality, which is effectively a purely competitive approach to life, treating the planet as if it has infinite resources and pitting one country against another for supremacy.

Simon Mainwaring

#79. The arrows of fortune ... .. derive their force from the velocity with which they are discharged; for, when they approach you by slow and perceptible degrees, they have but very little power to do you mischief.

Henry Fielding

#80. I embrace, I veritably hug and cuddle, the concept of optimism. It is the core of my approach to my existence.

Shane Peacock

#81. 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

#82. I was determined to share my positive approach and not let diabetes stand in the way of enjoying my life.

Paula Deen

#83. Whatever isn't born out of deep confidence in God is sin. That includes our personality and our approach to life.

John Eldredge

#84. My approach to living with purpose has always been to create the life I want,
one conscious decision at a time.

Oprah Winfrey

#85. When you move into a spiritual approach to life you begin to see yourself as connected to everyone and everything, and competition is replaced by something called cooperation.

Wayne Dyer

#86. I want to feel the approach of sleep as if it were a promise of life, not rest.

Fernando Pessoa

#87. But to me the notion that spirituality is separate from the rest of life does not allow for a practical approach to living a life that has extraordinary quality.

Tony Robbins

#88. For the past several years, I've been harboring a fantasy, a last political crusade for the baby-boom generation. We, who started on the path of righteousness, marching for civil rights and against the war in Vietnam, need to find an appropriately high-minded approach to life's exit ramp.

Joe Klein

#89. I worry whether it's not really the best way to live one's life - trying to fulfill the dreams you had as a child. Maybe it's quite a backwards approach.

Joe Cornish

#90. I honestly try to have the approach that this is real life, this is the real world that we live in, and I don't really try to shelter [my son] from a lot of things that he's gonna see when he looks out of the window.

Solange Knowles

#91. But when you get to a higher level of consciousness, when you get into a spiritual approach to life, you are not trying to get someplace else.

Wayne Dyer

#92. My vision is to not only define food and cooking as an art, but to go back to the roots of cooking and showcase the process through a more simplistic, ethereal approach as an expression of life and living.

Lorena Garcia

#93. I have spent a great deal of my time defending my work against those who see it as too complicated, too old in approach, too bleak to qualify as children's literature. This has been the bane of my life.

Sonya Hartnett

#94. It is necessary to approach the study of the issue from all sides to find as much information as possible on this issue

Sunday Adelaja

#95. If our 'message' is anything, it's a positive approach to life. That life is basically good. People are basically good.

Jim Henson

#96. I am not getting any younger and am taking a new approach to life.

Alfre Woodard

#97. In Spain and Italy I would not have a life among the fans. Everyone wants to touch you, own you and approach you. I try to be as kind as possible to all my fans, but in those countries I could not do it. There they ask too much from you.

Ruud Van Nistelrooy

#98. I spent my adult life as a scientist, and science is, essentially, the most successful approach we have to try and understand the vast mysteries around.

David Eagleman

#99. I think I'm known as an adventuress. Even generally in life, I have no fear. It's not that I'm not afraid of things, but when I am afraid of something, I don't back away - I approach it and try to understand what makes me afraid.

Bai Ling

#100. The Englishman's approach to vulgarity is so clumsy that it makes it seem dirtier than it really is, but the Frenchman lifts it with a light, dexterous touch onto a plane of inimitable humour. To go to bed with Balzac is to know what one has missed all one's life.

Jean Lucey Pratt