Approached Quotes

It is Basic Management 101 that if you reward failure you are going to get more failure, and if you want success you should reward success. But if you look at the way this administration has approached national security, they have kind of got that principle backwards.

The silver swan, who, living had no note, When death approached unlocked her silent throat.

It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment.

Thus the races, though alike in their physical response to climate, may possibly be different in their mental response because they have approached America by different paths.

These days, right now, these are the good old days. I've always approached it that way. That's why I'm still working. I'm not the guy who is ready to sit by the pool.

I approached everything, my job, my family, my romances, with intensity.

Business is difficult. But it could be approached two ways: Seriously, or with the same way you're doing your job, with entertainment aspect, with pleasure, with fun. And we decided to try to make it as fun that we do our creativity.

I've been approached to do some things with astronauts and the preparation that astronauts go through.

Philosophy can only be approached with the most concrete comprehension.

So I wanted to sing inspirational music, and that's exactly how I approached it - only the words have been changed to declare my relationship with God.

People are afraid to ask musicians to be involved in projects because they anticipate being turned down. Young artists hesitate before contacting me. People in my position don't get approached often enough.

We must remember that a photograph can hold just as much as we put into it, and no one has ever approached the full possibilities of the medium.

I've been approached by many different people, but I don't really want to be known as a collaboration dude.

Many are the names of God and infinite the forms through which He may be approached.

I've always wanted to be a spy, and frankly I'm a little surprised that British intelligence has never approached me.

The real world is far too complex and unpredictable to make something like the idea of humanity controlling its own evolution or engineering itself - well, I wouldn't say impossible but it should be approached with a degree of caution.

How many chances to you get to make a musical about a serial killer? The minute Tim Burton approached me, I was in.

Working with my dad was such a gas. We approached the work in a similar way. We only made two films together when I was an adult, Tucker, and Blown Away, but it was so much fun to play with your parent like that.

During my 21 years of playing cricket, I have never been approached by anyone or offered a bribe.

I haven't been approached to do anything, but I would certainly make room for it. It was a really fun time.

In some ways, I've always approached singing as acting, and the voice is just like a way of carrying the song.

When I heard about the first Tomb Raider, I was very interested and I would have liked to have directed that. When I was approached for the second film, I was delighted.

I don't think 'Twilight' should be approached like 'Batman.' Because it is an invented kind of world, especially this one, I think it's got to be done with a sense of enjoyment to it I guess more than anything. So I never thought of anything as making fun of it, but kind of reveling in the melodrama of it. It's a melodrama.

We wanted to do a sequel with Jim and Jeff. They said that the word was that Jim didn't want to do any sequels. We approached him and he said he would do it, but not until next year. New Line said it was too long to wait.

It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle.

Acting for me, is a passion, but it's also a job, and I've always approached it as such. I have a certain manual-laborist view of acting. There's no shame in taking a film because you need some money.

I've always approached spring training as I have something to prove.

We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet.

But I did not find any positive inspiration in my studies until I approached my nineteenth year.

A lot of times black actors get stuck in a box. They're up against a lot of limitations for the kind of films that they get approached about. It's easy to get stuck in a box and just be approached about nothing but urban films.